I often have little random thoughts chasing around my brain that bubble to the surface and I think “I should blog about that.” Then reality sets in and I realize that one random thought does not a blog make. Not that I haven’t been guilty of
doing it before on a number of occasions. But I am trying to be more disciplined here. So in the spirit of that I thought I’d share a grouping of those random thoughts that are bubbling near the top today.
Random #1 – If you are a fast food restaurant that specializes in chicken (that is chicken is what you DO) it is unacceptable to run out of chicken. What do you mean it will be 15 minutes for chicken? What else am I going to eat? Coleslaw and a biscuit for dinner it is! You know who you are and you ought to be ashamed.
Random #2 – Snow Monkeys are so incredibly adorable. I mean what is cuter than a little old man looking monkey taking a hot steam bath in the snow?
Here is a Snow Monkey video to prove my point.
Random #3 – Nimrod is just flat out a funny word. I don’t care if it can mean hunter. I don’t think it is possible to use it in a sentence and have someone take it seriously.
Random #4 – There are certain words or phrases I detest. Hearing them, or reading them, is like fingernails on a chalkboard for me. Among them are bucketlist, gone missing (but only on the lips of an American…VERY important distinction there), and apps (when speaking of appetizers…luckily with the advent of phone apps the potential for confusion is causing this one to die a none-to-soon death). Can’t list more in one place than that or my enemies could bring me to to my knees by reciting them all at once.
Random #5 – “Concept Designs” drive me a bit nuts. I mean the problem is I run across all these neat, cool, amazing and beautiful things that I am happy are in the world only to find out they exist only in the mind of their conceiver. I realize they are tossed out there into the Net in the hope that someone will pony up the needed funds to make them a reality, but all to often they are destined never to see the true light of day.
Random #6 – I find the women in the Palm Pre ad quite creepy. But on the other hand the Progressive woman, that many find creepy, I kinda like.
Guess that is all that is bubbling for now.
The woman in Palm Pre is NOT creepy! 🙂
That’s kind of funny, I featured the progressive insurance actress in a post earlier this year. Let’s seeeee….there it is: Insurance Ad Campaigns #2: That Progressive Direct Commercial Sales Girl.
Yeah, I don’t think she’s creepy either! I didn’t specifically mention not thinking she’s creepy, but I don’t.
Hm. Uh-oh. I may be in trouble with you on my most recent post, re: “Concept Designs.”
Oh yes Gee she is…totally is. But it is a successful campaign I would say because she may be creepy but the ads are memorable because of it. I even know the PRODUCT. So score one for Palm Pre.
Dogimo that is funny! 🙂 Guess the Progressive girl is memorable also. I don’t have a car, don’t need insurance, yet I remember her, the ad, and the product. Yes, she is over the top but in my opinion that is the point. That jittery just this side of crazed performance is what is funny, interesting, and memorable. I was fascinated enough by her to look her up after the ads started running. her name is Stephanie Courtney and she actually is a stand up comedian and comedic improv actress.
Here is snippet of her stand up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRZiMUJ8bqE and some other random thing I found which looks like some improv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEHxtbPyR5g
Gotta go check out that concept design related post. It’s not that I hate CD’s (like how I shorted that? I know you do) it’s just that they make me a tad sad. Poor little unrealized brain children.
I will have you know that Flo from the Progressive ads is now following me around the Net in banner ads. Now THAT is a tad creepy.
Yeah, I looked her up as well, but I didn’t want to put it right there in my post. I try to give the appearance of plausible aloofness, any time there’s a celebrity involved. I don’t want any celebrities getting the wrong idea, unless it’s Tina Fey, but even there no way because she’s married!
Alice, who does these wonderful old-timey line art caricatures that periodically adorn your posts? I love them.
Oh I am incapable of pulling off aloof or anything close to coolness so I don’t even try…ha ha.
I LOVE those drawings also! They are the work of Edward Lear and were done in 1894. The best part is that they are public domain and free free FREE for use 🙂
You can find them, and other great PD stuff here: http://public-domain.zorger.com/a-book-of-nonsense/index.php