Never Say “Never” In Advertising
I saw a scene from a movie once about an ad company writing a commercial for an airline (I believe it was “Nothing In Common”, Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason) … The young-pup ad writer had written in the ad for an airline that their record was so safe and good that they “Never had a crash …”
The head of the ad agency told the naive writer that you NEVER state such things … because the next day after the ad runs there’s ALWAYS a crash.
Type in Qantas plane crash into your search engine and see what comes up …
Now, think about this …
Greyhound scraps ‘bus rage’ ads after murder
Canadian passenger allegedly beheaded, ate fellow traveler
TORONTO - Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler.
The ad’s tag line was “There’s a reason you’ve never heard of ‘bus rage.’”
Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said Wednesday a billboard and some tunnel posters near a bus terminal in Toronto are still up and would be removed later in the day.
“Greyhound knows how important it is to get these removed and we are doing everything possible,” Wambaugh said. “This is something that we immediately asked to be done last week, realizing that these could be offensive.”
Vince Weiguang Li, who immigrated to Canada from China in 2004, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old carnival worker Tim McLean. He has yet to enter a plea.
Thirty-seven passengers were aboard the Greyhound from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, as it traveled at night along a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway about 12 miles from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. Witnesses said Li attacked McLean unprovoked, stabbing him dozens of times.
As horrified passengers fled the bus, Li severed McLean’s head, displaying it to some of the passengers outside the bus, witnesses said.
A police officer at the scene reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim’s body and eating them, according to a police report.
Wambaugh said the ads only appeared in Canada and that some in Ontario and western Canada have already been removed. About 20,000 inserts of the Greyhound ads were scheduled to be put into an Alberta Summer Games handbook but they stopped the presses.
(AP)
Oh well … Back to the story boards …
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Absolutely and never are two words you absolutely never should say.
August 6th, 2008 at 4:41 pmI thought it was more of a bus schizophrenia than rage. There’s always one or two nutters on a greyhound anyway. I used to use them every once in a while when I went on leave if it was cheaper than a plane ticket.
Guess I’ll be watching for the tinfoil hats if I do go back to active duty.
August 7th, 2008 at 1:07 amAbsolutely and never are two words you absolutely never should say.
yeah, an absolute and or objective truth there LMAO
August 7th, 2008 at 4:15 amDid that hurt as it went zooming ‘over your head’ there franchie?
August 7th, 2008 at 6:35 amIt’s a thread about advertising.
sully, ya know how I am interested in your “words”,
he, some villan habits to copy their masters
August 7th, 2008 at 6:38 amYou already copy your masters with wiki and now ‘GlobalResearch’.
August 7th, 2008 at 7:26 amif you accept me then that would be tantamount to surrender wouldn’t it? something you French NEVER do according to you but it is about time.
I think your ancestors were also frenchs, too many similitudes with our “façons d’être”
though I had loved to surrender to a master POS
August 7th, 2008 at 7:32 amnow, now… that’s not very convivial
August 7th, 2008 at 8:32 amyou just have to imagine the reverted image of the words, im paroding
August 7th, 2008 at 8:44 amyou mean parading?
August 7th, 2008 at 8:59 amwe Americans don’t ‘get’ parody
parading ? yeah, we like that here ; though the objective word is still paroding
I have searching “your parades”, only found “coca-cola’s”
“we Americans don’t ‘get’ parody” Really ?
though I put a parody of Paris Hilton
August 7th, 2008 at 10:01 am