Milk: PMS Witch
By Annie Wong | May 14, 2008
The commercial from California Milk Processor Board is a funny commercial about a witch experiencing PMS and scaring the children. Then after drinking milk it reduces her symptoms of PMS. The Grupo Gallegos created the campaign.
May Long Weekend: Ontario Place
By Annie Wong | May 13, 2008
For everyone in Ontario, here’s a discount from Ontario Place so you can spend your long weekend there. It’s valid on May 17, 18, 19, 2008, print the coupon and get the all day pass for $9.99 (regular price $33.50).
Monroe Shocks and Struts: Save the Squirrels
By Annie Wong | May 12, 2008
Well spring is here and while driving these days you see a lot of dead animals on the road. Well have you thought about getting your shocks checked after 50,000 miles, this can help save a life. Monroe Shocks and Struts launched the “Save the Squirrels” campaign available through radio, outdoors and online that help drivers take the view of a squirrel. The campaign is about a squirrel who found out that it was accepted to “Acorn State”, carelessly crossing the road to inform his parents. What happens? Watch the webisode.
What Came First, The Chicken or The Egg?
By Annie Wong | May 10, 2008
To support McDonald’s Southern Style Chicken Biscuits, which is their first introduction of chicken in their breakfast menu, McDonald’s launched a new site. The site is built around the concept of “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” It includes street interviews asking people what came first and allows visitors to upload pictures of themselves, become a chicken or an egg and choreograph move for a dance-off to determine the winner: chicken or egg. The site is created by Game Agency.
Ads in the 30’s
By Annie Wong | May 9, 2008
Advertising has come a long way since it’s first began. Check out some ads from the 30’s.
Pizza Nova & Variety - The Children’s Charity of Ontario
By Annie Wong | May 7, 2008
Every second Tuesday in May Pizza Nova offers one medium pepperoni pizza for $3.99 including tax, with $1 of the price donated to Variety- The Children’s Charity of Ontario. Help us support a worthy cause when you order from Pizza Nova
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On Tuesday, May 13th, Pizza Nova and Variety will host their 9th Annual
That’s Amore Pizza for Kids fundraising event with more stores participating
than ever before.
For 10 hours (11:00 am to 9:00 pm), customers can walk into any of the
100+ participating locations across Southern Ontario and purchase a medium
pepperoni pizza for only $3.99. Pizza Nova will donate $1 from each pizza sold
to Variety - The Children’s Charity.
This year’s single-day goal is to raise over $80,000 to help fund
Variety’s programs and services for children with special needs in Ontario,
bringing the nine-year fundraising total to over $580,000.
About Pizza Nova
Founded in 1963, Toronto-based Pizza Nova is a family-operated business
with over 100 locations in Southern Ontario. Specializing in fresh toppings,
Pizza Nova serves over 4 million pizzas annually, and offers a wide range of
menu items including salads, lasagna, panzerotti, toasted sandwiches, chicken
wings and their famous Baby Back Ribs. Pizza Nova locations offer delivery,
pickup and some sit-down service.
Arby’s Doublers Commercial
By Annie Wong | May 3, 2008
Here’s a new Arby’s Doublers Commercial posted on YouTube.
The video shows two Arby’s Doublers, one mocking the other roast beef and cheese sandwiche. The ad is created by Fletcher Martin.
10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies
By Annie Wong | April 28, 2008
My friend sent me this email, and it’s quite funny. Have a look:
1. We all accept that movies stretch the truth in the interest of building drama. The following ten flicks, however, treat the truth like it was Silly Putty — pulling and twisting it until it’s unrecognizable.
2. 
10,000 B.C.
Director Roland Emmerich is usually a stickler for realism (see: sending a computer virus via Macintosh to aliens in Independence Day). So we hate to inform him that woolly mammoths were not, in fact, used to build pyramids. Heck, woolly mammoths weren’t even found in the desert. They wouldn’t need to be woolly if that were the case. And there weren’t any pyramids in Egypt until 2,500 B.C or so.
3. 
Gladiator
Emperor Commodus was not the sniveling sister-obsessed creep portrayed in the movie. A violent alcoholic, sure, but not so whiny. He ruled ably for over a decade rather than ineptly for a couple months. He also didn’t kill his father, Marcus Aurelius, who actually died of chickenpox. And instead of being killed in the gladatorial arena, he was murdered in his bathtub.
4. 
300
Though this paean to ancient moral codes and modern physical training is based on the real Battle of Thermopylae, the film takes many stylistic liberties. The most obvious one being Persian king Xerxes was not an 8-foot-tall Cirque du Soleil reject. The Spartan council was made up of men over the age of 60, with no one as young as Theron (played by 37-year-old Dominic West). And the warriors of Sparta went into battle wearing bronze armor, not just leather Speedos.
5. 
The Last Samurai
The Japanese in the late 19th century did hire foreign advisers to modernize their army, but they were mostly French, not American. Ken Watanabe’s character was based on the real Saigo Takamori who committed ritual suicide, or “seppuku,” in defeat rather than in a volley of Gatling gun fire. Also, it’s doubtful that a 40-something alcoholic Civil War vet, even one with great hair, would master the chopsticks much less the samurai sword.
6. 
Apocalypto
This one movie has given entire Anthropology departments migranes. Sure the Maya did have the odd human sacrifice but not to Kulkulkan, the Sun God, and only high-ranking captives taken in battle were killed. The conquistadors arriving at the end of the film made for unlikely saviors: an estimated 90% of indigenous American population was killed by smallpox from the infected Spanish pigs.
7. 
Memoirs of a Geisha
The geisha coming-of-age, called “mizuage,” was really more of a makeover, where she changed her hairstyle and clothes. It didn’t involve her getting… Intimate with a client. In the climatic scene where Sayuri wows Gion patrons with her dancing prowess, her routine - which involves some platforms shoes, fake snow, and a strobe light - seems more like a Studio 54 drag show that anything in pre-war Kyoto.
8. 
Braveheart
Let’s forget the fact that kilts weren’t worn in Scotland until about 300 years after William Wallace’s day and just do some simple math. According to the movie, Wallace’s blue-eyed charm at the Battle of Falkirk was so overpowering, he seduced King Edward II’s wife, Isabella of France, and the result of their affair was Edward III. But according to the history books, Isabella was three years old at the time of Falkirk, and Edward III was born seven years after Wallace died.
9. 
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
In 1585, when the movie takes place, Queen Elizabeth was 52 years old - Cate Blanchett was 36 when she shot the film - and was not being courted by suitors like Ivan the Terrible (who was dead by then). And though the movie has her rallying the troops at Tilbury astride a white steed in full armor with a sword, in fact she rode side saddle, carrying a baton. She was more of a regal majorette than Joan of Arc.
10. 
The Patriot
Revolutionary War figure Francis “The Swamp Fox” Marion was the basis for Mel Gibson’s character, but he wasn’t the forward-thinking family man they show in the flick. He was a slave owner who didn’t get married (to his cousin) until after the war was over. Historians also say that he actively persecuted and murdered native Cherokees. Plus, the climatic Battle of Guilford Court House where he vanquishes his British nemesis? In reality, the Americans lost that one.
11. 
2001: A Space Odyssey
According to this film, in year 2001 we would have had manned voyages to Jupiter, a battle of wits with a sentient computer, and a quantum leap in human evolution. Instead we got the Mir Space Station falling from the sky, Windows XP, and Freddy Got Fingered. Apparently the lesson here is that sometimes it’s better when the movies get the facts all wrong.
Banned Commercial
By Annie Wong | April 27, 2008
Here are a few banned commercials I found on YouTube:
Bill Clinton Voodoo Doll Very Funny
Mastercard Priceless
Levis (banned in UK)
Microsoft Xbox
IKEA
Beer Bitch
4 Hilarious Commercials
Mother said I could!
The Revamp Mrs. Butterworth
By Annie Wong | April 26, 2008
Mrs. Butterworth is known for their grandmother-shaped bottle which had passed along many generations. Since Mrs. Butterworth’s was acquired by Pinnacle Foods in 2204 launched the brand first new ad campaign in April 2007, this week they are launching it’s second TV ad campaign in a decade. The campaign includes TV spots, a Web site relaunch (http://www.best-wallpapers.com/contact.htm), and interactive game and an online contest.
Geico | Mrs. Butterworth
Mrs. Butterworth’s Collective Commercials (1963 to 2007)
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