BS: Buick Christmas Adds

Subject: RE: BS: Buick Christmas Adds
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 26 Nov 11 - 12:28 PM

Buick You!

Subject: RE: BS: Buick Christmas Adds
From: Allan C.
Date: 26 Nov 11 - 07:45 AM

In one of her stand-up routines Lilly Tomlin once reminisced back to the days when one painstakingly painted a foul word on a bridge only to return the next day to find that someone had changed it to BUICK.

Subject: RE: BS: Buick Christmas Adds
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 05:04 PM

Hey, if it was s decent car then maybe I could see it but a friggin'...

...Buick???

Beam me up...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Buick Christmas Adds
From: gnu
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 04:58 PM

Jay Leno has a skit about a 50s Roadmaster... chrome dash and no seat belts... accident? hose down the dash and resell it. Hilarious.

Subject: RE: BS: Buick Christmas Adds
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 04:50 PM

As a teenager, I loved the Buick Roadmaster, which could cruise at 100, and also was a favorite with our New Mexico sheriffs.

Automobiles are important to our economy, and that type of adv. has a long history.

Subject: RE: BS: Buick Christmas Adds
From: gnu
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 04:37 PM

My old man told me when I was a lad... the part that you need for your Chev/Pontiac/Buick is in the same bin at the dealership. If you have a Chev, it costs $1. If you have a Pontiac, it costs $2. If you have a Buick, it costs $5.

He further explained that the air intake on a Chev carb was canted to the left but canted to the right on a Pontiac. He took both apart on such vehicles and showed me all the parts were interchanable and so was the price of the parts.

He took me to the intersection of Lutz and Main Streets in Moncton, New Brunswick and took me into each of four women's clothing stores that were on the four corners. He explaind that new clothing was first brought into the "expensive store", then circulated to the others in turn... all four stores being owned by the same man.

He never told me it was "marketing" a product to stunned people. He just told me that if I met a woman that only shopped at the expensive store she would want me to buy a Buick.

Subject: RE: BS: Buick Christmas Adds
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 02:54 PM

More offensive (to me) than the scmaltzy ads cited above are several "news articles" I've encountered on what are claimed to be news sites. One link claimed to be to a story about a "new music teaching method" used in childrens classrooms but when you click the link all you get is a Buick ad that starts with a Buick sitting in front of "the school" (for about 4 seconds), and then the teachers go for a ride in the Buick. Teaching not mentioned.

There have been others similar, but I've never watched enough after the first Buick appears to remember what they claimed to be about.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Buick Christmas Adds
From: michaelr
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 02:33 PM

Boo! Ick!

Subject: RE: BS: Buick Christmas Adds
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 02:24 PM

I don't like the one where Santa has a tiny red Mercedes pulled by eight larger Mercedes instead of a sleigh.

Subject: RE: BS: Buick Christmas Adds
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 01:35 PM

It may make you fume, but it makes you think of Buick. Likewise, all those reading this thread will be thinking of Buick.

The ad is obviously a success.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Buick Christmas Adds
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 12:25 PM

Typo - ads
Sorry

Subject: BS: Buick Christmas Adds
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 12:24 PM

Maybe I have too much time on my hands but every time a Buick ad comes on the TV, I fume. They start with Mom getting A GIFT WRAPPED NEW CAR IN THE DRIVEWAY, dAD GLOWING, KIDS DANCING IN ANTICIPATION OF HER REACTION. tHEN A NEW bUICK DRIVES BY MAKING HER LITTLE GIFT LOOK PAULTRY AND ALL GOES GRAY FOR THE FAMILY.
wHAT THE FUCK!
a NEW CAR AND THEIR cHRISTMAS IS RUINED BY A BIGGER CAR?????
dO THEY KNOW THAT MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS AND EATING AT SHELTERS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY?

argghhhhhh!
rANT OVER BUT i WILL NEVER BUY A bUICK. i WOULD NOT TAKE ONE AS A GIFT.


dAMN cAPSLOCK!
rANT over.