innocent kitteh!

i have been following the lolrus bukkit saga¹ since its inception. today, i can has cheezburger supplied a wonderful addition to the saga:



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¹ for any of you who don't spend all your life on the internet, it's a series of macros that started with a picture of a guy stealing a bucket from a sea lion, and it has just burgeoned from there. click the link...there's a quite comprehensive collection of bukkit macros on the website. either you will read them and laugh hysterically, or you will read them and mock me mercilessly for being incurably amused by this tale of the poor lolrus and his missing bukkit.

no! not duh!

dear hyundai,

i demand the names of two people: the person in charge of doing your holiday ad campaign and the person inside your company who approved the holiday ad campaign. i need to whack them both with my clue stick.

three of your holiday-themed ads have played within the last hour or so during the rams-niners game that i'm watching. you know the ads, i'm sure...the ads with the choirs singing familiar holiday tunes on the syllable "duh," and then interrupted by the voice-over guy saying:

"nothing quite says happy holidays like the word 'duh.' as in, it's obvious. a no-brainer. like getting a good deal on a great car."

somebody didn't quite get that it's not so obvious if the ad had to make such a contrived analogy to tie it in.

sure, it's not a bad thing to get a good deal on a car--it is better than paying full price. i can only assume that the ad writer thought people would be stupid enough to just assume that buying a car at a discount was an inherently "happy holidays" thing to do, and assume the connection because...hey, clearly the ad said "duh" enough times, it must be obvious!

however, repeating "duh" a hundred times does not actually spin a filament between the two ideas. the ad would either have to provide more data to establish the connection, or connect the perceived holiday obviousness with something more obviously connected in the general consciousness with the holidays

so. ad designer. ad approver. clue stick. now.

perturbed,
the persecuted crack smoker