6 Responses to “Dear Advertisers Of America”

1. Dog Gone Says:
   January 18th, 2010 at 11:44 am

   That was a bit more terse than clear, for a Monday morning.

   Could you be just a little more specific as to what has offended you?

   So we might more adequately understand and share your anger in support.

2. Mitch Berg Says:
   January 18th, 2010 at 2:00 pm

   There is a brand/line of deodorant/scent spray, marketed to teenage guys (and which when applied with typical teenage-boy restraint is just about the most obnoxious-smelling thing this side of having bags of flaming poop left on your porch, and unfortunately costs a lot more, not that teenagers care, since the ads are also marketed with the most insidious sexual PG-13-rated sexual upsell in the history of marketing) which has an ad campaign involving vacuous-looking “extreme” “athletes” – skateboarders, stunt bikers and so on – applying the stuff whilst doing their various stunts, via a maneuver called (this’d be the ad’s hook line) “Double-pits-to-chesty”, intended to sound like a skateboard/motorcycle/whatever trick. The guy puts on the deodorant in mid-air, sticks the landing, and gets the gorgeous girl.

   Above is my response.

   I think it’s more reasonable than my first response, “Double-tap-to-forehead-y”.

3. Dog Gone Says:
   January 18th, 2010 at 2:44 pm

   Ahhhhhhhhhhhh……….I understand now, thanks for the explanation, and the chuckle (from a safe distance). Isn’t it a wonderful thing when teenageboys outgrow certainenthusiasms, LOL.

4. Scott Hughes Says:
   January 18th, 2010 at 5:55 pm

   Pining for the old days and the Hai Karate craze? (Be careful how you use it!). wink

5. Kermit Says:
   January 18th, 2010 at 9:51 pm

   Ah. A few years ago my teen son would bathe in Axe. He has thankfully outgrown that fume. But we did always know when he planned to go out ahead of time…

6. Dog Gone Says:
   January 19th, 2010 at 3:28 pm

   I just saw the commercial (something I would have fast forwarded to had you not raised my curiosity).

   You have my sincerest sympathies, LOL. Ewwwwww.

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