Alexandria Bay
Apr 12, 2004 @ 4:21 pm
Not so much on the faucets (I've always been perplexed about the number of faucet manufacturers with TV ads, like there's hot competition in the plumbing biz) but I have coveted a 5-in-1 tool for years since Matt on Room by Room raved about it. I have no idea what it is, but I want one. Also, one of those laser levels. Not that I have any projects to use it on, but it looks so cool.
TheCustomOfLife
Apr 12, 2004 @ 4:27 pm
ChinkyGirl, a British toy maker came up with Polly Pocket. It was very big there from the get-go (it was distributed in Britain starting in 1980), and then Mattel brought it to the U.S. in 1989. Isn't that sad that I actually searched for Polly Pocket websites to get a concrete date?
Miki The Brain
Apr 12, 2004 @ 4:29 pm
Oooh laser levels.....
My new obsession is that awesome dryer that has the top part for a drying rack. We've mentioned the commercial a few times (it's the one where the daughter is hanging clothes all over the house and has run out of room- stupid advert..), but the dryer itself? Gives me the vapors...
Mangetical Anji
Apr 12, 2004 @ 5:19 pm
I have to say that though there are abundant Polly Pockets here, I have never thought to look at her hoo-hoo. The rest of her seems blessedly unpowered and unglittery. Also, she doesn't sing, "We like da moon!" Which it seems to me would be worse than Chuckie x 10.
If they made a Polly Pocket that sang, "We like da moon!", I would so buy it. I never had Polly Pocket when I was a kid, though I wanted one. I just never thought enough to ask for one. I preferred my Barbies with the sparking rollerblades that had to be recalled because some girl set her house on fire with them. Still have the Barbies, still have their rollerblades.
Freshly Ground Coffee
Apr 12, 2004 @ 5:28 pm
I have coveted a 5-in-1 tool for years
Alexandria Bay, was it a
Leatherman?
Like most old farts, Home Depot is my Disneyworld, and I too perk up for appliance commercials. Mmmmm stainless steel dishwasher mmmmmmmmm......
puckish
Apr 12, 2004 @ 6:52 pm
Or it could have been a
Dremel. I love both my Leatherman and my Dremel.
I, too, hanker for one of those laser levels. And I, too, adore Lowes, HD, even the corner hardware store.
Especially the corner hardware store.
And for that whippersnapper upthread who prematurely likes the hardware stores, the appliances, the cabinet handles and all, you're destined to become like us in your old age - I, too, spent shopping trips with my parents in my youth gazing longingly at the fridges and sinks and faucets. I had designed my dream bathroom by the time I was eight.
And I still want it.
Mangetical Anji
Apr 12, 2004 @ 7:09 pm
I'm 18, and already I crave one of those big Vulcan restaurant stoves. I practically go into a pleasure coma just thinking about the cooking I could do on that sucker.
My dad LOVES his Leatherman. He gives them out as presents.
cal331
Apr 12, 2004 @ 7:19 pm
My husband wants one of those. He says he won't consider any other stove when we have to buy a new one, even though there's no way in hell we could afford it. Also he hardly ever cooks.
Thanks to that commercial, I want the laser level too! Even though I would probably just use it to drive the dog insane.
ubi
Apr 12, 2004 @ 7:27 pm
Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I...
I remember when I was the Queen of the Old West and all the cowboys wanted to marry me...
wdejesus79
Apr 12, 2004 @ 7:35 pm
I'm 25, and my porn right now is (are?) dream houses. I go on real estate sites and drool over closet space, number of bedrooms and kitchen size.
I had never seen the Snickers commercial with the young guy flirting with the mounted officer till recently. I'm so out of it.
Shelwood
Apr 12, 2004 @ 8:20 pm
Or it could have been a Dremel. I love both my Leatherman and my Dremel
Actually, a 5-in-1 tool is a fancy paint scraper with a curved cutout for cleaning rollers (and they're only $6, so
Alexandria Bay, treat yourself).
5-in-1 ToolI love my Leatherman, but I can seldom find anything to use my Dremel on. My lust these days is for power tools, especially cordless power tools, and appliances. Mr. Shelwood is a plumber, so he brings me plumbing porn -- Kohler makes a copper bathtub for $6000. I don't know why I don't have one.
puckish
Apr 12, 2004 @ 8:39 pm
I love my Leatherman, but I can seldom find anything to use my Dremel on.
I can't find much to do, either. I picked up scrimshaw (on bones, not ivory) as a hobby just so I could play with the Dremel. I think it's mainly one of those things that I just like to
have, with all its wonderful little attachments and accessories. Kind of like an anti-Barbie. Kind of like how, every once in a while, I'll buy a box of Crayola crayons, the big box, just to look at all the pretty colors all stuck in there together. I don't use them, and actually, usually my kids wind up with the box, but I'll keep it for a few days after I buy it, just to look at it. Just to
have it.
Please, someone tell me I'm not the only one who loves a pretty, pretty box of crayons laid out all new and lovely and untouched.
Topic? Even though I adore little home improvement gadgets (mmmm... Paper Tiger...), I really, really detest Bob Vila, and for all that his gadgets are great (try the strap wrench! It's wonderful! Really! I keep one in my kitchen and in my toolbox), I find myself not wanting to buy Craftsman tools just because he's the jackass promoting them on the TV ads.
Shelwood
Apr 12, 2004 @ 8:57 pm
Please, someone tell me I'm not the only one who loves a pretty, pretty box of crayons laid out all new and lovely and untouched.
Right there with you,
puckish, and I don't even have kids so I have no alibi.
Speaking of Crayola, those new Color Wonder Fingerpaints freak me out. I guess it's godsend for those who want both children and white carpet, but I feel bad for those kids. If you look closely, it says the fingerpainting is shown in "time elapse [sic] photography". So, you make a mark, then wait for the color, mark, wait -- I'm thinking color mixing is out of the question. Imagine the confusion (and mess) when you introduce these kids to real paint.
Tabbyclaw
Apr 12, 2004 @ 8:58 pm
I think it's mainly one of those things that I just like to have, with all its wonderful little attachments and accessories.
Like my dip pen and sealing wax, and the cedar flute I talk myself out of buying every year at the Renaissance Festival. "Suitor who, fearing that he has nothing to offer me should we be married now, is seeking his fortune by making the perilous voyage overseas and to the 1700s" is next on my shopping list to complete the set. :P
Please, someone tell me I'm not the only one who loves a pretty, pretty box of crayons laid out all new and lovely and untouched.
It's more Prismacolor pencils with me, but no, you're not alone.
DramaPrincess
Apr 12, 2004 @ 9:03 pm
I just don't get these new Revlon commercials. You know, the ones where the models (and Julianne Moore) are walking around with some song playing, and suddenly they walk into some building and there's a giant black-and-white blown-up photograph of them. What's the point?
screamapiller
Apr 12, 2004 @ 9:03 pm
My lust these days is for power tools, especially cordless power tools, and appliances. Mr. Shelwood is a plumber, so he brings me plumbing porn -- Kohler makes a copper bathtub for $6000. I don't know why I don't have one.
Mmmmmm.... power tools. Every time I see a Home Depot or Lowes commercial, I just want to go shopping. I love my cordless drill/screwdriver, it's my favorite (although my Leatherman, socket set, and Allen wrenches do hold special place in my heart...)
Puckish, I'm with you about the corner hardware store. There is a great folk song about a guy who has an angel appear to him in a dream, and the angel tells him that he needs to go to the local hardware shop "before you go to Lowes, help to keep them open - I'm worried they might close". It's a riot!
I crave one of those big Vulcan restaurant stoves.
I love them too... And while I love the Vulcan and Wolf stoves, what I REALLY want is one of the induction cooktops that never actually get hot, but make the pans get hot.
Mmmmmmmm.... electromagnetic molecular energy...
Ilikegrayarrows
Apr 12, 2004 @ 9:12 pm
I just don't get these new Revlon commercials. You know, the ones where the models (and Julianne Moore) are walking around with some song playing, and suddenly they walk into some building and there's a giant black-and-white blown-up photograph of them. What's the point?
I am neither here nor there on them, but a friend of mine is afraid of the one with the blonde woman when her face freezes in her mirror… or something. I haven't seen that one, but I saw one with J Ho and one with Julianne Moore. I will say I don't understand why they have essentially the same concept in four or five commercials.
Cress
Apr 12, 2004 @ 9:32 pm
Are those the same commercials that feature the number 6:34 on them? Sometimes it looks like a time, sometimes it seems to be an address. But I can't figure them out. Are they trying to be cryptic like perfume commercials?
MyLisa
Apr 12, 2004 @ 9:39 pm
Any other Californian's out there who have seen the newest 'Flex Your Power' campaign ad? The setup has a seal 'asking' for help at a Big Nameless Appliance Store and the poor hapless clerk has no clue what to do (and his supervisor is no help either). It makes me giggle every time yet also a little sad -- the seal just sounds so earnest asking for help. I haven't found an online link yet, but I'll keep looking. The tagline is something about how easy it is for most Californians to ask for Energy Star appliances at their local home improvement center.
Lingo
Apr 12, 2004 @ 9:56 pm
Bad news for us liking the
new Coors ads.
indybear
Apr 12, 2004 @ 10:02 pm
I crave cordless power tools, too, and I have three different sizes of the Leatherman. But appliances are my true porn - especially washing machines. My current machine has a problem with the cold water inlet valve and takes 45 minutes to fill. It even screws up warm/hot washing since all the rinse cycles use cold water.
jcpdiesel21
Apr 12, 2004 @ 10:03 pm
Please, someone tell me I'm not the only one who loves a pretty, pretty box of crayons laid out all new and lovely and untouched.
puckish, I am the exact same way. I bought one of the newer boxes of Crayola boxes of crayons last year and am very hesitant to use any of the crayons. They're just so... pretty unusued.
From a few pages ago, that Subservient Chicken was a hoot to try out. But there was too much stuff I asked it to do where it just came closer to the camera and waggled its finger at me. And those eyes, they are creepy close up.
Topic? I got nothing.
Jael
Apr 12, 2004 @ 10:04 pm
I'm 25, and my porn right now is (are?) dream houses. I go on real estate sites and drool over closet space, number of bedrooms and kitchen size.
I understand. I'm fortunate enough to live in Los Angeles, so I go "open house" sightseeing in Bel Air. The best house I've seen so far was owned by this sports nut who had a mini-golf green in the front yard, batting cages over on the side and tennis courts in the back overlooking the pool. A.maz.ing.
ChinkyGirl
Apr 12, 2004 @ 10:37 pm
A three-inch Polly Pocket is wrong and bizarre. Is she going to keep growing? Will she one day be big enough to crush Tokyo?
A
mini Tokyo!
I have no idea what Polly Pocket is, nor do I care. The only important question about this thing, for which I've never seen a commercial, is: are parts of her hemi-powered and/or glittery?
Glittery - sometimes. Hemi-powered - doubtful.
ChinkyGirl, a British toy maker came up with Polly Pocket. It was very big there from the get-go (it was distributed in Britain starting in 1980), and then Mattel brought it to the U.S. in 1989. Isn't that sad that I actually searched for Polly Pocket websites to get a concrete date?
I'm just as sad,
TheCustomofLife! Here's a link to a site dedicated to Polly Pocket:
http://www.onlypollypocket.com I urge the Polly fans here to click on it, because it shows the evolution of Polly from little centimeter things to inch things, lol.
And since I have so many Polly fans here, I just wanted to share my joy of finding a pic of the
Polly Funtime Clock I once had! Isn't is just groovy?! Too bad I gave it away a few years ago :(
I just don't get these new Revlon commercials. You know, the ones where the models (and Julianne Moore) are walking around with some song playing, and suddenly they walk into some building and there's a giant black-and-white blown-up photograph of them. What's the point?
I don't know, but I'm guessing that we'll find out soon enough - word is that all of the current Revlon spokeswomen are going to be shooting a 2 minute "movie". That's just lame.
wdejesus79
Apr 12, 2004 @ 10:40 pm
Bad news for us liking the new Coors ads.
Aw, I liked Pete. I especially love his face when the guy asks, "So, is Colorado cold or something?" Priceless.
I understand. I'm fortunate enough to live in Los Angeles, so I go "open house" sightseeing in Bel Air.
You're so lucky! The McMansions I look at are all in Warren, Hunterdon & Bergen Counties in New Jersey. And I'm not.
Please, someone tell me I'm not the only one who loves a pretty, pretty box of crayons laid out all new and lovely and untouched.
I don't have any kids, and I have the same reaction. I hesitate to use them, and get a little sad when their tops get blunt. Or if their paper wrapper get colored by another crayon. (I never realized how anal I am. *sob*)
ETA:
word is that all of the current Revlon spokeswomen are going to be shooting a 2 minute "movie". That's just lame.
That is very lame. I don't mind when car companies do the 2 minute movie thing (like BMW did and I think Mitsubishi did it, pairing the Gallant against the Toyota Camry), but then again, I love cars. Their my other porn. And watching cars racing for two minutes is much more interesting than watching a short about makeup.
quickychick
Apr 12, 2004 @ 10:44 pm
screamapiller,
There is a great folk song about a guy who has an angel appear to him in a dream, and the angel tells him that he needs to go to the local hardware shop "before you go to Lowes, help to keep them open - I'm worried they might close". It's a riot!
That's David Wilcox and the song is East Asheville Hardware. My ex used to sing it to me all the time.
An angel appeared
in a holy vision
Stood by my bedside
in shivering light
Spoke my name
Told me my mission
I could not believe I was hearing him right
Because he said, 'Go, my son, go...
Always go to East Asheville Hardware
Before you go to Lowe'sAnd now I need to go sniff a new box of crayons. Thanks, y'all!
screamapiller
Apr 12, 2004 @ 10:57 pm
thanks,
quickychick! I loved that song the few times I heard it, and it was bugging me that I couldn't remember who sang it!
word is that all of the current Revlon spokeswomen are going to be shooting a 2 minute "movie". That's just lame.
That is very lame. I don't mind when car companies do the 2 minute movie thing (like BMW)
There's just no words for how lame the concept of a "short film about makeup" is. For cripes sake, it only takes me 5 minutes to put on makeup! And unless they're going to get Clive Owen to appear in their commercial movies, they're of no interest to me.
Another commercial that has no appeal to me? This entire series of ads with the Jeep delivery guy and the dealership guy. Makes me want to never drive a Jeep.
wdejesus79
Apr 12, 2004 @ 11:02 pm
Another commercial that has no appeal to me? This entire series of ads with the Jeep delivery guy and the dealership guy. Makes me want to never drive a Jeep.
Yes, I know! The last Jeep commercial I saw, the dealership guy asks delivery guy how he got the Liberty down (never mind that Jeep Liberty always makes me laugh, because the underground newspaper at my undergrad used Jeep Liberty as a euphamism for anal sex - don't know why), the dealership guy says, "Never mind, I don't want to know."
My sentiments exactly. Jeep, I DON'T CARE.
ubi
Apr 12, 2004 @ 11:16 pm
Are those the same commercials that feature the number 6:34 on them? Sometimes it looks like a time, sometimes it seems to be an address. But I can't figure them out. Are they trying to be cryptic like perfume commercials?
I can't figure them out either and they kinda creep me out; I keep thinking the person somehow has entered the domicile of a stalker who's been following them around and taking their pictures for the "shrine" they just stumbled upon.
Rabrab
Apr 12, 2004 @ 11:29 pm
It looks like they may only be pulling the Pete Coors commercials from the Colorado stations. That'd be nice. Well, for the rest of us, not so much for the Colorado people.
wdejesus79
Apr 13, 2004 @ 12:56 am
Oooh. I've been meaning to mention this for a while now. I like the new McDonald's commercial with all the hot guys in the office. I want to work at that office. Especially so I can see that window clearner. Damn, those guys were fine.
beezer
Apr 13, 2004 @ 5:25 am
That commercial for the tub that has the overflow tub around the actual tub (so you can submerge yourself like, completely) got me, but then, then, I saw the commercial for
this and.. and I... I just...
scarletine
Apr 13, 2004 @ 8:17 am
I share your speechlessness beezer. I saw one of those dryers in Lowe's the other day, and thought back to my laundry room, and how nice and cozy all my clothes would have been in the dryer instead of hanging all over my cheap-o drying rack, and how organized and convenient it would all be...
And then my husband broke me out of my reverie by telling me that the saleman was giving me strange looks because I was stroking the thing like a pet. Oh well. Maybe someday...
PlayItGeorge
Apr 13, 2004 @ 8:32 am
Yay! I hate the revlon commercial too, if not just for the music. I HATE that music they're playing in it, I'll turn the channel just to avoid hearing "I believe in love".
FfrauleinN
Apr 13, 2004 @ 8:50 am
Maytag® Neptune® Electric Drying Center, please marry me.
jcpdiesel21
Apr 13, 2004 @ 9:03 am
Maytag® Neptune® Electric Drying Center, please marry me.
Hee!
The Drying Center is also at Sears. I pass by it every time I go to
*shudder* work in hardware. It is so pretty and organized.
MyLisa
Apr 13, 2004 @ 9:44 am
I'm so glad I visited this thread yesterday and learned about Subservient Chicken. When the Burger King commercial ran last night during the Inferno, I realized "Hey! That Chicken looks familiar!" I did notice he was missing his garter belt...
Alexandria Bay
Apr 13, 2004 @ 10:25 am
You're all so sweet to feed my 5-in-1 tool craving. I, too, have lusted after cordless power tools and also those funky wrenches with beads or whatever that mold to the nut. Oooh! And one of those ratchet wrench things because I have carpal tunnel problems that make clenching and squeezing handles painful.
A Waltz of the Hours/Camp Granada/Hello Muddah update: Bob's Discount Furniture, the bane of CT TV, is using the music in one of its ads. That's...3? 4? current ads using it now. It's a musical meme!
screamapiller
Apr 13, 2004 @ 11:16 am
Maytag® Neptune® Electric Drying Center, please marry me.
The Drying Center is also at Sears. I pass by it every time I go to *shudder* work in hardware. It is so pretty and organized
.
now, I'd be late every day because I'd just be standing in front of the thing, hands clasped under my chin, looking at the drying center with big moony "I lurv you" eyes... sigh.
I want one too.
buzz792
Apr 13, 2004 @ 11:18 am
I like the new McDonald's commercial with all the hot guys in the office. I want to work at that office. Especially so I can see that window clearner. Damn, those guys were fine.
I LOVE that commercial too. It doesn't make me want anything to eat from McDonald's (especially not any of their nasty-ass salads) but those boys are hot--I want to work there too!! Can you sense my frustration? I work in a company with about 65% women.
It's nice for once for women to be enjoying some eye-candy when we watch commercials...I watch a lot of sports, so I guess I'm just sick of the beer ads (the Miller Lite catfights and the Coors Light blonde twins...)
wdejesus79
Apr 13, 2004 @ 12:45 pm
It doesn't make me want anything to eat from McDonald's (especially not any of their nasty-ass salads)
Yeah, as cute as all those guys are, that commercial does not make me want to eat anything from McDonald's.
And the girl in the commercial is very cute, too.
ChinkyGirl
Apr 13, 2004 @ 1:35 pm
Yay! I hate the revlon commercial too, if not just for the music. I HATE that music they're playing in it, I'll turn the channel just to avoid hearing "I believe in love".
That would be Ilya's "Bellisimo", which I've actually been quite addicted to recently. Perfectly spooky for a rainy day (like today)!
That Maytag Neptune thing is quite porn-rific, and I don't even DO laundry!
europa1057
Apr 13, 2004 @ 1:41 pm
From a few pages back, I'd like to offer a contrasting point of view.
BUT... Gogurt isn't half as bad as Skippy Squeeze Stix. Why in the name of all that is good and holy would someone think it was a good idea to take peanut butter, add extra sugar to it (and sometimes chocolate), and then put it in a tube you squeeze into your mouth?
This? Is a godsend for backpackers like me. I love me some peanut butter when I'm out on the trail, and this is finally a non-messy way to bring it with me. It's not as yummy as my extra crunchy Jif, but it's still a million kinds of awesome. It's like they finally listened to the demands of my small community. As far as I'm concerned, there aren't *enough* foods packaged in easy to take along single serving pouches. The last time I felt this way was when I discovered tuna in a foil pouch.
Any other Californian's out there who have seen the newest 'Flex Your Power' campaign ad?
Yep, posted about it a few days ago. Too cute for words. Makes me want to go hang out at the Wharf in SF and talk with the sea lions. Maybe I'll skip out of werk this afternoon and go do just that. If you find the link post it here - I haven't found one yet.
formergr
Apr 13, 2004 @ 1:50 pm
Who the heck is Hailey Westenra? And why do I see commercials for her stupid debut album just about every commercial break? It reminds me of all those Josh Groban commercials; I wonder if they are on the same label or have the same agent. The commercial is creepy, too, you can't tell if she's 15 or 25.
Shelwood
Apr 13, 2004 @ 3:17 pm
Maytag® Neptune® Electric Drying Center, please marry me.
In my house, this is now known as "The Lottery Dryer".
vegasusa555
Apr 13, 2004 @ 5:03 pm
[QUOTE]It was you wasn't it,vegasusa555?[QUOTE]
ummm......no FfrauleinN, I uh don't know what you're talking about!!
*runs away with shifty eyes and crams the smuggled Polly Pocket in bottom of purse.
MyLisa
Apr 13, 2004 @ 6:24 pm
Yep, posted about it a few days ago. Too cute for words.
Ah, sorry
europa1057 -- I guess I didn't go back far enough (I was out sick Friday and have been trying to catch up on all I missed -- I'm sure I've been through close to 200 forum pages since then (not to mention a half dozen recaps)).
If promos count as commercials, the 2 that made my week (besides the shoppnig seal) were the one with The Apprentice's Sam in a tiara for the Miss USA pageant (already cited by many) and the open call announcement for TAR 6!
wdejesus79
Apr 13, 2004 @ 9:58 pm
I wanted to comment on this Z100 commercial running on my TV now.
Jessica Simpson is saying she loves music and that's why she listens to Z100 (the local top 40 station), blah blah blah. The best part, however, is when she and Nick start dancing together, and the song playing in the background is Toxic with the line "Don't you know that you're toxic." Then that Maroon 5 song plays with the line "This love has taken its toll on me." That was brilliant editing by Clear Channel's part or a great coincidence.
Pepsi Princess
Apr 14, 2004 @ 7:32 am
Anyone see the new Goldfish commercial with Carson from Queer Eye? He is dancing around in this black leather (or satin, he doesn't stand still long enough to tell) suit and black T-shirt talking about being thin and they show these flat Goldfish Crisps, I think they're called. At the end he says, "Goldfish is definitely the new black! I mean, snack!"
Um...ok, Carson. Whatever.
Told the chicken to go to hell (got the devil sign). When I said, "fuck you" he made the "shame-shame" motion. Told him to eat shit (thumbs down). I also made him throw up, throw the pillows, pray, skip, and die. When I typed in "money" he showed his butt to me. When I told him to surf he gave me the "hang loose" sign. It's more fun guessing without the list.
FfrauleinN
Apr 14, 2004 @ 7:34 am
Does this website have music/noise? Because I'm purely dying to try it, but I'm at work.
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