Ads with top-class humor and a certain sarcastic attitude towards the advertised product itself? I mean, really, what where they thinking? Why hire John Cleese when a dozen actress-wannabees and a splash of tacky gfx can sell absolutely anything and cost less than a truly big fish. Anyway, seems like the Compaq of yore was going for that ..uh.. je ne sais pas.
Related @ Gnome's Lair: HALO Monty Python, Elementary Dating, Say fuck at a funeral, a ZX Spectrum documentary
Ah! The memories! I remember these excellent commercials appearing rather regularly on the old telly... Eminently preferable to the insipid mind control of the Intel Pentium Processor jingle...
ReplyDeleteSheer Genius... being born in Weston Super Mare.. with a father whose orignal surname was Cheese... kinda orientates the soul towards comedy...
ReplyDeleteI would buy a compaq endorsed by John Cleese's brother in law.
ReplyDeletePure Genius.
Btw I just edited a local news story about someone stealing decorative gnomes and I thought of you.
Absolutely agree there Father. Actually preferable to every other commercial ever and that includes those that haven't even been yet.
ReplyDeleteIndeed learned Mr. Elderly. Then again Marty Feldman's guidance did surely help quite a bit.
Hehe, me too Caleb. Stealing decorative gnomes? The nerve.. tsk, tsk, even thoguh I'd hardly call meself decorative.
Computers Often Make People Angry Quite!? Might be before my time, but it's still funny ;)
ReplyDeleteQuite, quite funny dear Droniac. BTW great new site mate...
ReplyDeletedecorative Gnomes?
ReplyDelete(looks at Gnome....)
its a stretch.....
I'd say...
ReplyDelete..how could anyone steal a Gnome?... I'm quite taken aback by the brutality of it to be honest.... (checks ebay....)
ReplyDeleteNobody steals us. Besides, all your base are belongs to us!!!1!
ReplyDeletewell if thats the case how come ebay has loads of ornate Gnomes, is this i wonder a clever ruse to avoid immigration control...? (elderly delves further into the international trade of Gnomes....)
ReplyDeleteActually its a conspiracy by the conspirators that hate gnomes aka men in pr0n.
ReplyDeleteahaaa.. so we have a conspiracy have we... right well then it's a juicy story indeed and one that deserves bringing to the publ..... porn? what porn?
ReplyDeleteNot porn. Pr0n really. And it's a rather secret conspiracy, so can't know much about them conspirators now, can I?
ReplyDelete..well no.. i'll give you that, you wouldn't know.. not if its a secret conspiracy... right well thats a bummer... but have you any clues... a persons name? a meeting place.. what pizzas they like.. ?
ReplyDeleteActually, no. I could ue my psychic powers but unfortunately they are tuned to unlocking free porn and not pr0n which makes things even worse. Better ignore 'em I say. Bloody little conspirators. Bah!
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