tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post9082712974136212729..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Is that Pepsi ad that bad?Jim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-14026105467180286682017-04-12T19:54:56.475+10:002017-04-12T19:54:56.475+10:00For some reason I thought that Pepsi had used that...For some reason I thought that Pepsi had used that, but appears to have been apple!Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-55704114687614106892017-04-12T18:19:40.469+10:002017-04-12T18:19:40.469+10:00"Think different" could'a been a win..."Think different" could'a been a winner, I always thought.<br /><br />kvdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-27742839583107882632017-04-12T08:21:01.763+10:002017-04-12T08:21:01.763+10:00I will leave that spam comment. It does somehow se...I will leave that spam comment. It does somehow seem appropriate, 2t. Checking, it seems to have been Pepsi - "for those who think young" in 1963 or thereabouts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqG5qH2I94YJim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-64447862581021128542017-04-11T16:23:24.511+10:002017-04-11T16:23:24.511+10:00Leave the spam comment above me in, it seems curio...Leave the spam comment above me in, it seems curiously appropriate.<br /><br />I thought it was a pretty, dumb ad like coke and pepsi ads from time immemorial. No fat white blokes because fat white blokes aspire to be young and fit, whatever the reality. I'm really stretching but I think one of the two had a short-lived "Think young!" motto in maybe the '70s.2 tannersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-44690657271703930032017-04-10T19:26:04.684+10:002017-04-10T19:26:04.684+10:00Nice post keep updating like this,
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1) how can that girl...Things I want to understand:<br /><br />1) how can that girl start out in a gold sheath but end up in blue jeans and a tank top?<br />2) where are the short, fat, old, white dudes? Speaking of which:<br />3) is it even statistically possible to have so many minority representations converge at once?<br />4) where is the outrage at the appropriation of that Vietnam-era image of the kid putting a flower in the gun?<br />5) given that the word 'Pepsi' has not floated across my mind for maybe 20 years, why is this advertisement considered a 'fail'?<br /><br />@marcellous, your tagline could be "Stolichnaya sets you free"<br /><br />kvdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-65762968693297224082017-04-07T00:54:20.158+10:002017-04-07T00:54:20.158+10:00The complaint against this ad seems similar to the...The complaint against this ad seems similar to the complaint against Woolworths over ANZAC stuff last year.<br /><br />I guess you're also thinking of the kerfuffle about the Cooper's ad.<br /><br />Meanwhile, as I've just been reading Sheila Fitzpatrick's (remaindered at $6, you can have my copy when I've finished it) book about Stalin's team, let's risk Godwin's law and have, say, a Stolichnaya ad featuring a genial and anachronous dialogue between (say) Stalin and Disraeli about the emancipation of the Jews. Do you think that would sell vodka?<br /><br />Not of course a really accurate pair, since Disraeli was baptised at the age of 12 and so escaped any disability and Jews were theoretically emancipated in Russia by the time JS took such a set against them. <br /><br /><br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com