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Thread #130135   Message #2930064
Posted By: Alice
17-Jun-10 - 04:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: What happens when BP spills coffee?
Subject: RE: BS: What happens when BP spills coffee?
CNN today has an article about the initial video posted on this thread (What happens when BP spills coffee?) and the proliferation of ways people are spoofing BP's attempt at oil containment.

A new logo contest for BP at logomyway.com is posting designs for tee shirts, etc., that the public submits for rebranding BP.

Greenpeace has a similar new logo contest.

Regarding how the coffee spill video went viral...

"(CNN) -- People can't laugh at the spreading oil in the Gulf, the soiled wildlife or the coastal residents whose livelihoods have been devastated.

But they can laugh at BP, the corporation most hold responsible for the mess.

Making a mockery of BP and its unsuccessful efforts to stem the flood of oil has gone viral on the Web. And based on viewership, it appears the public would rather watch parodies of the disaster than BP's official responses to it.

UCB Comedy's video, "BP Spills Coffee," posted June 9, depicts what looks like a group of BP executives meeting in a boardroom. One of them knocks over a cup and spills coffee across the table. An executive reacts by saying, "Don't worry about it -- it's a small spill on a very large table."

After hours of increasingly ridiculous attempts to clean up the disaster, the group ends up abandoning the destroyed room.

As of Thursday morning, the video had been viewed more than 4.7 million times on YouTube."