1st March 2003, 2:17 PM
Here is the thread where people can come in and ask others to explain idiotic commercials that make NO sense.
First on the agenda is a commercial I saw where, um, they were talking about a guy getting a bad deal on something, probably phone related, but oh well I almost never remember the product ads these days advertise anyway. Well, one guy says "I got a bridge in Brooklyn I could sell ya, hahaha". I mean, I have NEVER heard that expression, EVER, so it's stupid, STUPID! Brooklyn bridge? There's only ONE bad bridge people sell each other, London Bridge, which is known for "falling down"! How does the Brooklyn bridge comment make the guy sound like he gets bad deals?
First on the agenda is a commercial I saw where, um, they were talking about a guy getting a bad deal on something, probably phone related, but oh well I almost never remember the product ads these days advertise anyway. Well, one guy says "I got a bridge in Brooklyn I could sell ya, hahaha". I mean, I have NEVER heard that expression, EVER, so it's stupid, STUPID! Brooklyn bridge? There's only ONE bad bridge people sell each other, London Bridge, which is known for "falling down"! How does the Brooklyn bridge comment make the guy sound like he gets bad deals?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
