Quote: Badge @ May 27 2010, 8:35 PM BSTThen they wouldn't be able to think. You haven't thought this through.
Anybody with such a poor understanding of irony should go on a strict spinach and liver diet.
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It seems that a lot of people who invent adverts spend too long thinking outside the box. Why do we have a Mafia panda advertising biscuits? Or a gorilla playing Phil Collins' drum solos? There's a box with 'making sense' inside it, and it's best not to think too far outside it.
The mafia frequently use pandas for assassination.
As an endangered species they can't be sent to prison or executed.
If we're on silly phrases now (I thought this was words) then what the bijjibers was that 'jumping the shark' all about, anyone?
And the only way you could literally do it is from one boat to another, and unless the boat you were on was sinking, there'd be very little point. A skilled water skier could possibly do it, a sea fearing Eddie Kid, maybe.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ May 28 2010, 9:32 AM BSTIf we're on silly phrases now (I thought this was words) then what the bijjibers was that 'jumping the shark' all about, anyone?
It's all there on the web to read about, but it's certainly not a phrase I'm fond of, because it is used as a weapon to bludgeon shows undeservedly. Before the expression was widely used, there was far less criticism of shows for the sin it alludes to.
A scene from Happy Days when the Fonz jumps over a shark on water skies.
It's the one unique moment when a TV show goes down hill and won't come back.
Well I had no idea that that's what it referred to, I really must stay in more.
Was that a tad sarcy?
No, I don't believe I inhabit this rather laddish adopted world in which everything must be drenched in irony. I remain detached, uninitiated in the main and dare I say, purer. I did actually mean that I had no idea. Good morning to you.
You're welcome.
Quote: keewik @ May 26 2010, 12:30 AM BSTWhat I'd really love would be a month of banning the word 'like'.
I'd quite like that too.
Nucular and foilage - offenders should have foliage forced into their anus by a nuclear scientist until they remember the difference.
"Thanking you", particularly from middle-aged female call centre operators. Grr!
'Not a problem' can turn me purple - it's usually said over the phone by sales people who spend most of their time reeling of well worn hooks and phrases without really thinking for themselves.
Quote: don rushmore @ May 27 2010, 11:15 PM BSTSomewhat ironically, he was run over and killed by a garbage truck.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ May 28 2010, 7:13 PM BSTit's usually said over the phone by sales people who spend most of their time reeling of well worn hooks and phrases without really thinking for themselves.
People saying "of" instead of "off"
'See you later' from some person (usually a random salesperson) I've never met before in my life and am unlikely to meet again. I feel like seizing them by the throat and demanding to know whether they're spying on me. 