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Spinning the Advertisers
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:04 amby Kyrros
I know I've pointed this out to a few people before in tells, but with the increasing frequency of this and other Chemistry dating commercials..
Watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6A8S21E7bQ
Then scroll down..
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My brain condenses that commercial as "Chemistry.com - We're full of eHarmony rejects" Sure makes me wanna sign up...
Feel free to throw in any other commercials ya people think aren't quite getting the message they want across, they're pretty damn funny for me.
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:19 pmby Firia
There's a whole lot of commercials that feature that, "REJECTED [by E-Harmony]" stamp. EH is pretty much for the middle aged catholic american, so, if you don't fit the bill, you probably fit the stamp to a T.
My favorate commercial is the guy;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgxOhG2n ... re=related
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:47 pmby Tarryk
That's still my favorite, too, cracks me up every time.
Can I apply to Eharmony and see if I get rejected without paying them anything? If so, I think I'll give it a shot just for poops & grins.
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:00 pmby Tastyvixen
hehe, same here. I love that commercial. I see it all the time on late night cable. Cracks me up every time.
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:33 pmby Lunatek
Tarryk wrote:That's still my favorite, too, cracks me up every time.
Can I apply to Eharmony and see if I get rejected without paying them anything? If so, I think I'll give it a shot just for poops & grins.
Yeah, you can... However, if you're depressed, have any gay tendancies or select 'other' for religion, you're round-filed.
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:37 pmby Tarryk
Next question, then: Supposing I do pass (which, if I'm even remotely honest, I'm sure I won't), will people be able to contact me if I don't pay?
Goal: Without spending anything, I'll lie to pass, and if anyone ever responds, I'll just email them those youtube clips.
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:38 pmby Lunatek
Tarryk wrote:Next question, then: Supposing I do pass (which, if I'm even remotely honest, I'm sure I won't), will people be able to contact me if I don't pay?
Goal: Without spending anything, I'll lie to pass, and if anyone ever responds, I'll just email them those youtube clips.
People will be able to contact you, you won't be able to contact people without paying. Oh, and eHarmony gleefully emails others about your 'interest' simply because you're 'compatible' by their standards.
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:48 pmby Tarryk
Woohoo! So I'll be an instant hit in the mormon community or something.
Hm, perchance the angled approach: Take the test to pass, but wherever there might be freeform text to add, I'll just insert some outlandish crap.
32 M Protestant, live on a ranch, love to cook, run track, and watch all the fun bits of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Priscilla: Queen of Desert" while ritually slaughtering small animals with a spork. Message me today!
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:06 pmby Lunatek
Tarryk wrote:Woohoo! So I'll be an instant hit in the mormon community or something.
Hm, perchance the angled approach: Take the test to pass, but wherever there might be freeform text to add, I'll just insert some outlandish crap.
32 M Protestant, live on a ranch, love to cook, run track, and watch all the fun bits of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Priscilla: Queen of Desert" while ritually slaughtering small animals with a spork. Message me today!
That's outlandish? I don't think that'll even get you flagged...
Now, if you said that you weren't a feverent Shrub supporter, they'd be at your door with pitchforks within the hour.
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:02 pmby Kyrros
You could try something like uh..
32 M Protestant, live on a ranch, love to eat the flesh of recently deceased animals after killing them, run track backwards, and watch all the fun bits of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Priscilla: Queen of Desert" while using my imagination to ritually slaughter my obnoxious neighbors with a spork or dull spoon. Message me today!
Hehe
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Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:12 pmby Talidro
I've been rejected by eHarmony previously. Then roughly a month later, I saw my first chemistry.com commercial. lol
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Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:48 pmby Oddysee
Tarryk wrote:while ritually slaughtering small animals with a spork. Message me today!
Isn't spork a product from Leisure Suit Larry 7 or something...?
Oh, and on commercials that come across the wrong way... how about this one?
Tm
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Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:21 pmby Kyrros
Oh god that's wrong. Ahahaha..
Nice find, Oddy
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Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:15 pmby Tarryk
HOLY god that's all kinds of wrong LOL!! I can't believe that ad would have even made it past a marketing consultant (and if so, they need to be fired)
oh, and:
Oddysee wrote:Isn't spork a product from Leisure Suit Larry 7 or something...?
It wouldn't surprise me if there was spork references in LSL7, but the term itself is valid. It's those half-spoon half-forks that just about every fast food restaurant and school cafeteria has in abundance.
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Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:08 pmby Acushla
the term spork has a much richer history than you might think *smiles*
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spork
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Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:11 pmby Tarryk
One of the bands that I was in during high school called ourselves "The Sporkfighter's Guild". We had anime-style renditions of ourselves drawn up wielding sporks as weapons in various ways. I loved that shtick, want to find a way to bring it back.
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Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:47 pmby Tastyvixen
oh... my.... god....
That can't be a real ad.....