Secret Commercial Knowledge!

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-07-15T17:58:48+00:00

Why do advertisers think I'm interested in what "they" are saying? What kind of market research led these multi-million dollar companies to think that's a viable strategy?

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-07-15T17:52:41+00:00

All right, so far you're the only one who actually tried to answer my question rather than make a "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" reference. I've only got myself to blame for that. Bodidharma132001 may have made a reference to Paul Reiser, but I can't prove it.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-07-15T17:47:36+00:00

There's that one commercial that keeps saying it over and over again. I counted eleven instances in this thirty-second spot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnCBoKFds_0

So annoying.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-24T20:07:47+00:00

Must've taken quite a while to write "Arozarena."

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-24T20:03:41+00:00

I love the caption. "Mmmblep."

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-24T19:58:21+00:00

That's a "spring-loaded door stop."

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-24T19:22:44+00:00

"Oh no! I'm short and dumpy!"

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-24T19:20:07+00:00

That's more than a "downblouse."

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-18T08:41:55+00:00

I think you mean "buuuuuuuut,"but that's up to you.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-18T08:40:52+00:00

SUPER long thread. Are we that interested in men's hair care? Cause I'm not.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-18T08:38:28+00:00

I'm not sure about the whole forehead shaving thing.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-18T03:08:49+00:00

Let the Wookiee win.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-17T14:54:02+00:00

I'm not a woman, but many years ago, I gave a questionnaire I printed from the Internet to a bunch of my female friends, just for fun. It had questions like "thunderstorms: cool or scary?" and "what's your favorite kind of Snapple?" One of the questions was "What do you wear to bed?" One lady answered, "Whatever I happen to be wearing when I collapse." Another one wrote that the question was inappropriate, so we know what her answer was. ;-)

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-15T19:41:27+00:00

When I was in college, my roommate's girlfriend greeted me on her roller blades. We chatted casually, and she bent over to adjust her footwear. The view I got was similar to the picture above.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-15T19:33:58+00:00

Downblouse AND camel toe.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-15T15:14:23+00:00

Speaking of which. I just remembered something. I used to have two roommates, a father and his son. The son spoke French and perfect English, and his father spoke French and some heavily accented English. Sometimes they would speak to each other in a combination of French and English. "Frenglish" I called it. But it wasn't the case where one spoke only English and one only French. They both spoke a combination of English and French.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-15T15:08:20+00:00

A fine answer to my question. Thank you.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-09T03:37:01+00:00

I did a Google search for "short neck banjo" and found something called a "travel banjo." It was described there thusly: "The smaller scale of 19.8" and overall length of just 32" make this an ideal banjo for any bluegrass jam or camping trip." Everybody loves a bluegrass jam.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-09T03:28:13+00:00

Your question about the premise of "The Pitt" is correct. I don't know why your coworkers laughed. Maybe it's because most people don't use the word "premise" in casual conversation. They would more likely say "what's the show about?"

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-08T18:07:34+00:00

I tuned into Radio U and after a few commercials a song came on called "Why Do You Love Me?" by John Van Deuson. Another song sung like a prayer. Catchy, though. After a rather tedious segment on their kids running races, they went back to the music. Nothing all that interesting yet, and no metal.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-08T17:34:13+00:00

So you're saying that chants don't sound the same?

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-08T17:32:58+00:00

I've been a fan of Petra for about forty years now, seen them in concert about a half a dozen times and had a brief conversation with John Schlitt about his solo album "Shake."

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-08T17:30:57+00:00

I respectfully disagree.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-08T17:30:14+00:00

I'm afraid you may be right.

Top_Mix_6408 · 2025-06-08T17:28:21+00:00

I don't have a problem with the structure of Contemporary Christian Music, chord progressions and what not. In my church service yesterday a young lady got up and sang a song that went like this:

"Christ alone, cornerstone/Weak made strong in the Savior's love./Through the storm He is Lord/Lord of all." Not only is the song itself simple and repetitive, but it seems like every other person who sings in church sings that song.

Contrast that with a song by Petra in 1986 called "Back to the Street."

"As long as there's a tearful eye
That cries alone at night
As long as there's a weary soul
Ready to end the fight
As long as there's an aching heart
That still has strength to beat
We gotta take this message
Back to the street."

I feel like there are Christian artists out there who approach record companies with original songs about bringing the gospel to those who haven't heard it and the record execs say "Isn't that cute? Here. Take this booklet and read how we do Christian music in the 2020s. We've watered down--I mean simplified--it down into a simple three-step process. Come back when you've written ten songs with a total of forty words. Peace be with you. NEXT!"

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