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[cresbydotcom]

I don't know if this is a runner but - how about a thread of anecdotal unintended puns/whimsies?

eg - when I first met Joy (at Cajun dancing as it happens) I bought 2 mobile (cell) phones so we could keep in touch. Long work hours etc.

Sort of textual intercourse if you like. and I do.

Anyway I set the ring tones to music and only 6 months later realised they were set to

"Jesu Joy of man's desiring" - and I do!

 

[jsteph]

How about Ford Motors? They decided to rename the Ford Bronco because they wanted to distance themselves from that whole "O.J. Simpson--fugitive on the run" association.

The new name? Ford Escape.

<credit goes to Arrested Development TV show>
--Jim

 

[BoxHead]

United Parcel Service had once primed up for a massive marketing campaign called, "Thinking Outside the Box"

until they realized that many customers jokingly referred to damaged packages as UPS' way of "thinking outside the box".





Life is short.
Build something.

 

[flapeyre]

Thinking outside the box" - fine for executives; not a good idea for kitty cats (see my signature).

Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea posui!

 

[jebenson]

This is kind of on-topic. Chevrolet recently had an online "contest" where users could create their own Checy Tahoe ads, using video clips of the vehicle in normal, everyday action - such as parking on top of a mesa, driving across sand dunes, etc. The users added their own "tag" lines to accompany the images as text. Well, Chavy got a little more that they were expecting, I believe. The link below points to a site that has several of the clips that you will not see on television:

Video: Chevy Tahoe's online ad contest

I used to rock and roll every night and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I'm lucky if I can find 30 minutes a week in which to get funky. - Homer Simpson

Arrrr, mateys! Ye needs ta be preparin' yerselves fer Talk Like a Pirate Day! Ye has a choice: talk like a pira

 

[SilentAiche]

[green]then, there's the Dodge RAM doggedly pursuing the Dodge EWE over ruff terrain. [/green]

(er, Bill) (don't ask, new folks)

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"To be rather than to seem" [green](as stated in plain English)[/green] - Official Motto of the State of North Carolina[/blue]

 

[SantaMufasa]

Then, of course, there is the fun they have in France when someone there drives a Pontiac Grand Am: when the driver discloses, "I drive is a Grand Am" ("Je conduis une Grand Am", homophonically sounds like the driver is saying, "I drive a Big Woman"), the listener usually responds, "Ooo La la, Vous devez être un homme heureux." (Wow ! You must be a happy man.)

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I can provide you with low-cost, remote Database Administration services: see our website and contact me via www.dasages.com]

 

[BoxHead]

SilentAiche,

I always thought that Dodge Ram was self-contradictary enough. Whenever I pull up behind one in traffic, I'm torn as to which I should do.

Should I dodge? Should I ram?

I usually just sit there waiting for the light to change and let my mind wander off to more pleasant thoughts of big women.





Life is short.
Build something.

 

[SilentAiche]

I usually just sit there waiting for the light to change and let my mind wander off to more pleasant thoughts of big women.

Been there, done that.

It's called the [red]"Red Light District."[/red]

You can request Amber, butt you'll have to fork over some green.

It's famous in Ramsterdam (don't get me started on the "Nether"Lands!)

Tim (still smiling!)


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"To be rather than to seem" [green](as stated in plain English)[/green] - Official Motto of the State of North Carolina[/blue]

 

[SantaMufasa]

Ohhhhhhhhhh Myyyyyyyyyyy Gosh !

Tim deserves some kind of a star (probably Red), but after awarding it, I'd need to go wash my hands and disinfect the rest of me.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I can provide you with low-cost, remote Database Administration services: see our website and contact me via www.dasages.com]

 

[Lightning]

Tim

Have Mercy!! We'll all vote for you as punster of the month, but no more, pleeeaaase!

Lightning