Could you imagine if a candidate made a version of this ad updated for terrorism? My my how times have changed.

I came across this ad because Tony Schwartz, the creator of this ad, died on Saturday.

Mike Huckabee is downright hilarious.

I don’t know how I missed this commercial, but it is about as funny as it gets in politics.

The intro to this song has been stuck in my head for weeks as it is the background to a car commercial I see no less than 10 times a night. I finally googled the song (which was shockingly easy to find despite me not remembering what brand the commercial was for - 2008 Ford Edge - and the fact that the snippet of the song they sampled doesn’t contain any lyrics).

I figured maybe if I put it in your head it would get out of mine.

Some time after 9/11 the New York City MTA created a new campaign to encourage citizens to report suspicious activity in the city’s subways. The tag line is “If You See Something, Say Something.” (as seen below… Spanish style).

Recently, the MTA has papered the subways with a new ad that celebrates the fact that, in 2007, 1,944 people saw something and said something.

That’s it? Only 1,944?

The subway ridership in New York is 1.5 billion… per year. 4.9 million per week.

This leads me to believe that the Stop Snitchin’ campaign has officially crossed over.

I mean, I alone have witnessed 1,000 incidents that could have warranted a call to 311… but I ain’t no snitch.

Has any one else seen the Lipitor guy (a.k.a. Dr. Robert Jarvik inventor of the Jarvik Artificial Heart) and thought, “inventor of the artificial heart or not, I just don’t trust this guy because he looks like President Bush with a fading mullet.”

Just asking…

This came up a few years back (can’t remember if I posted it) but I called someone at the office Grimace today and that led to a discussion of the origins of Grimace. Back when he debuted in 1971 he was actually referred to as “Evil Grimace,” was to shakes as Hamburglar is to hamburgers, and sported 4 to 6 arms.

Evil Grimace

I want read/see the origin story of the “Evil Grimace.” I want to know how he found redemption and became Ronald McDonald’s Robin.

Apparently the young girl in this commercial is Jodie Foster. She totally sells her “No Shakes…” line. I get sad contemplating the lack of shakes in McDonald Land.

I will, from here on out, be referring to this year’s Super Bowl as the “Prince Concert.”

Besides the fact that he absolutely smoked that guitar, the man closed out with Purple Rain… in the rain.

The best “Prince Concert” commercial was of course the Doritos commercial (closely followed by the Grand Theft Auto Coca-Cola commercial).

These new ads from Amnesty International are amazingly powerful. I can’t believe any local government would allow them as they look so realistic at first glance.

The tagline translates to “It’s not happening here, but it’s happening now”

Update: The ads were designed by Walker Werbeagentur Zuerich.

This week’s award for most useless value proposition goes to Podtrac, which claims to “enable podcast advertising and measurement by expertly giving podcasters and advertisers all the essentials they need.”

Update: I am not saying that Podtrac offers a useless service, only that their website copywriters could use some help spelling out the value of the service.

I was walking with three friends in the village the other day when the following advertisement stopped exactly two of us in our tracks.

Can you guess how many members of our group are black?

P - heart - M’s project manager should be fired. I guess in the focus group, no one told him or her that nooses are still not funny to black folks.