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Nearly 20 minutes of a 60 minute TV program are commercials

Nearly 20 minutes of a 60 minute TV program are commercials

This fact boggles my mind: Nearly 20 minutes of almost every hour of TV programming is commercials. Put another way: Nearly a third of my TV viewing time is commercials. It drives me away from network and cable television programming and toward pay sites like Netflix and Amazon Prime. It’s not that the advertisers sponsoring …

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Smoking kid ~ Ogilvy ad

Smoking kid ~ Ogilvy ad

Smoking kid ad from Ogilvy ~ Nice to see the “mad men” and women of Ogilvy (Thailand) put their creative energies into something for the public good.

Shooting (at) your boss with AK-47 ~ SFW

Shooting (at) your boss with AK-47 ~ SFW

UPDATE: Watched the video a couple more times, and doubt the shooter used three round burst setting–just had a fast trigger finger…Still, really dumb thing to do. Shooting at boss with AK-47 ~ I assume this is real, but who knows. The employee appears to shoot at his boss with an AK-47 in a three …

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Euell Gibbons ~ Grape Nuts Commercial

Euell Gibbons ~ Grape Nuts Commercial

I remember seeing this commercial for Post Grape Nuts with Euell Gibbons when I was a kid–and the Saturday Night Live parodies, which I unfortunately couldn’t find on YouTube ~ “Did you know bicycle seats are edible?”