It is a joyous Thanksgiving tradition within this company more sacred than almost any other. I hope it gives you the pleasure to watch that it gives us.
Please say a prayer for those traveling and those away from home (fighting on our behalf) or without a home on this or any day. We’re lucky and we know it but sometimes we don’t know it.
Happy Thanksgiving – click away to the tradition here.
You didn’t ask but I’ll tell you anyway. I came home and nobody was around so I decided I’d have a little chocolate milk. So over to the fridge for the milk and some (well the way I make it, a lot of) Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup.
And then I start singing the Hershey’s jingle that I have not heard in a billion years but up it popped out of my one good brain cell. No I didn’t recording this particular jingle session. I wouldn’t do that to you.
However, being the age of the internet I decide I should go look for the spot and darned if I didn’t find it. So as far as you know, this is what I sounded like when I was singing the Hershey’s jingle.
But then there was something on You Tube about Carrie Underwood and Hershey. Turns out she has an advertising agreement with them and did spots promoting a bunch of their candy brands and a t-shirt giveaway.
I won’t editorialize on how brilliant it was to tie in a young but widely respected American country singer to revive old jingles and who looks Great (note the capital G) in t-shirts but I’ll let you judge for yourself as I have to go out and buy some chocolate bars.
Only occasionally on this blog do I impose my musical tastes on you and it really has been a while. The primary reason is because most of the music I hear is ultimately unremarkable. The secondary reason is because I just don’t listen to a ton radio.
But I have found three songs that I really like this summer. Two of them are totally uncool for a guy like to me be liking so I’ll keep them to myself. The air check demo was embarrassment enough for one week.
This is from Coldplay and it’s the kind of song that would make me listen again and again on my record player if…I…still…had one.
While I am sure I am late to this wordsmith party (that which I will henceforth describe) I must note that while I think I am always late on these kinds of things, most of the world is a lot later than me so I hope you enjoy this.
I read (or more often scan) blogs and RSS feeds for many reasons with the primary one being my desire to learn new things.
And while learning about new marketing techniques, voice over opportunities and advertising campaigns are great fun, sometimes it’s the writing or a word that gives my day the wonderful epiphany we all seek (or at least should seek).
Today I was reading the Lifehacker blog, subtitled tech tips, tricks and downloads for getting things done. Gina Trapani was writing about email innovation you might want to know about (both still in beta and available now at a store or web site near you).
What caught my attention was this sentence regarding the dreaded and often unavailable “undo” button for emails we immediately regret sending.
At one time or another, all of us have hit the Send button and immediately regretted it. While Gmail offers a nice (and unusual) “Undo” option for most email actions—like labeling messages or archiving them—there’s no Undo once you’ve sent a message. What would be super-useful for those facepalm moments after you’ve sent a regrettable email is the ability to take it back.
The facepalm moment. Immediately I knew what it was but I had never heard it called that. I loved it. But I also knew such a great phrase must have caught on somewhere.
It did. Yes, that’s a site called facepalm.org featuring famous pictures of the dreaded facepalm. There are 530,000 references on Google for facepalm. This will be 530,001
Glad I could contribute.
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…a gun. Well actually a couple of guns although technically one was an automatic machine gun which I would consider more rifle like but my knowledge of guns extends only to these sentences really so don’t quote me.
Yes, when I was in Arizona (which is hot, damn hot in August) I visited the Scottsdale Gun Club where the public is invited to shoot guns with live ammo in their shooting range. ANY gun because they have hundreds including, yes, automatic machine guns. The kind boys used to play with as kids only these will actually kill something.
I was never much into guns. More like intimidated by them, fearful even. But when the group I was with went on the adventure to the club, I figured I should face my slight fear and I did.
We watched a training video, signed our lives away, picked the weapons of our choice, donned our ear protection (as we all wore glasses already) and into the indoor driving range we went.
Lord it was loud. Chest thumping loud as there seemed to be well over 20 stalls and almost all of them had people shooting all kinds of weapons. Combined with the echo that was the first startling observation.
Second was handling the guns. We were taught how to load our weapons (a Glock 9mm and MP5 machine gun like many S.W.A.T. teams use) and we fired. The power of these weapons, the force, the damage…these were the other things I noticed.
It turns out that in spite of my shaking hands, I’m not a bad shot.
The last thing I noticed was the variety of people shooting. Husband and wives (“the couple that shoots together…”) twenty-something women on what looked like a date, and a couple of really odd looking characters who based on appearances alone I would not allow to have a weapon.
But they have their rights and so we all went bang, bang into the night. It was fun and exhilarating and yet not something I think I will seek to do again unless the opportunity is similar to this trip. In some cases to avoid the accident, it’s best to simply stay off the road.
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“Ah, O’Connell me boy” you say (because you enjoy pretending your good at an Irish brogue when you’re not) “I think you’ve gone from Looney Tunes to Looney Bin.”
That’s true but it has nothing to do with my post.
See, John McCain, he of Republican presidential nominee fame, created an ad about the celebrity of Barack Obama, he of Democratic presidential nominee fame. This is the ad:
As you’ll note, one Paris Hilton, she of multiple sex tape fame and being rich (not necessarily in that order), was featured in the McCain ad…unbeknowst to her.
Our Paris didn’t like it. Somehow she teamed up with comedians at Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Chris Henchy’s Website “Funny or Die,” to create a brilliant, funny response shown here:
OK, you may mark your calendars with what I am about to say: Paris Hilton has impressed me with this presentation. She totally aced the subtle comedic performance.
I am not a fan of either McCain or Obama so if Paris is the only other choice, then I shall vote for her. At least she wears her vapidity on her sleeve.
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