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Lee Gordon · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 3:53 pm Post subject: Yule prolly laff at this

I occasionally rant about the lack of brain power among radio account execs who write their own commercials. I work with a group of radio stations where command of the English language does not seem to be a requirement for employment on the sales staff. So, when the production guy sent me a piece of copy turned in by one of the sales geniuses and told me he thought I'd get a laugh out of it, I wondered how it could possibly stand out against the mountains of dreck we see from them on a regular basis. Turns out, I didn't have to venture beyond the opening two sentences:

"SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME, PRECISION AND ACCURACY HAS LED THE WAY. MICHAELANGELO PAINTED THE 16TH CHAPEL WITH PRECISION. "

Explode

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Kim Fuller · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 4:08 pm Post subject:

Best laugh I've had all day Gasp

todd ellis · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 4:09 pm Post subject:

it's really less impressive after you know he had 15 others to practice on.
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Matto · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 4:55 pm Post subject:

Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 5:11 pm Post subject:

oh. my. hell. !
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melissa eX · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 5:26 pm Post subject:

can't ...stop...laughing

Scott Pollak · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 5:51 pm Post subject:

ccpetersen · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:14 pm Post subject:

You know, when I stood in the Sixteenth Chapel, I wondered why they wouldn't let us see the other 15... Wink

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Bruce · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:29 am Post subject:

I'm thinking we have a contest here for most idiotic statement.

SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME, PRECISION AND ACCURACY HAS LED THE WAY.

I'm sorry but some of our ancestors were such klutzes that we're all lucky to be here at all. Oh, and let's not forget the verb agreement in "precision and accuracy HAS led the way."

Quite a mindfield (sic) of idiocy you've got there.

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Lee Gordon · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:42 am Post subject:

Oh, the entire piece of copy, from the bogus premise, to the atrocious grammar, to the complete omission of any mention of where the client is located, is idiotic. After the "16th Chapel" mention, it goes on to reference "Alexander the Great conquer[ing] new worlds by using a precise military strategy." And this is for a place that does automotive tune-ups.

I'm not even going to get on him for his spelling of "Michaelangelo." At least he didn't put a space between "Michael" and "Angelo."

I know there's a difference between ignorance and stupidity, but some of these sales guys have managed to deftly combine the two. Rolls Eyes

"16th Chapel" unseated the previous winner, courtesy of another member of the same sales force: "Egg corn squash."
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ccpetersen · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:58 pm Post subject:

Egg Zacktly.
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Frank F · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:21 pm Post subject:

That copy is just egg-scrw-she-ating. And "I'm 'enery the eighth, I am.

Not the Sistine(-th).

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Drew · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 9:20 pm Post subject:

Had an art history series narration a few months back. I'm sure, according to one of the scripts I received, It's not the 16th Chapel, but the "Pristine" Chapel.
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Fran McClellan · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:54 am Post subject:

LOL! Thanks for the belly laugh Laugh

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Rob Ellis · M&M Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 2385 Location: Detroit

I'm quite sure that I once worked with that salesperson