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I would have liked that one better if when the skinny little red-headed four-eyed guy went over and hugged the bear, instead of just pushing him away, the bear had backhanded (backpawed?) him into a tree, or maybe clawed his face off.

 

 

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Heck, I got a good chuckle out of it!  :)

 

Unlike "Gentle Ben," this was expected to be viewed as absurd and whimsical.  

 

Kinda like the old John West Salmon commercial.  ;)

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said:

@Cat Brules

It's this one....

 

 

I liked the other one better.  But still the same thought.  :rolleyes:

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I have lived in grizzley bear country for longer than most people have been alive. One of my best Sea Scouting friends is the grizzley bear specialist for the Idaho Fish and Game Department. Grizzleys are NOT CUTE, FUZZY or SWEET!  :(

 

Anthropomorphic depictions of bears could get someone killed. I am adamantly opposed to them except for unarmed gun control people.  :rolleyes: Only an ignorant urban liberal could think that an ad like Geico's is cute.  My disdain for Geico, sadly, can't be increased. :angry:

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Hm.  I didn't think of those commercials as "cute."  Maybe they are.  But I did find them amusing and somewhat funny.

 

Perhaps it's because I have something of a sense of humor and the intellect (doesn't take much, in this case!) to realize that they're not realistic, and in no way designed to make people think that grizzly bears are cute 'n' cuddly.  No more so than the Coca Cola polar bears, nor - perish the thought - the venerated Hamms Beer bear.  

 

And rest assured, I am FAR from being an "ignorant urban liberal."  

 

Oh - I wouldn't recommend inviting a moose for ice cream, either!  ^_^

 

 

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18 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

Heck, I got a good chuckle out of it!  :)

 

Unlike "Gentle Ben," this was expected to be viewed as absurd and whimsical.  

 

Kinda like the old John West Salmon commercial.  ;)

 

 

 

 

JMHO but that is one of the funniest commercials ever. 

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Here's one from forty or fifty years ago ~ but with a real bear.  Surprisingly, I never knew anyone who tried to take a bear for a jeep ride - everybody knew better.  Did know a fella who had dead buck suddenly wake up in the back of his Wagoneer.  He and his buddy found that to be kind of exciting!  ^_^

 

So - remember tossing the pull tab back into the can??  :lol:  I wonder how many got swallowed!  sick.gif

 

 

 

 

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8 hours ago, Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life said:

I have lived in grizzley bear country for longer than most people have been alive. One of my best Sea Scouting friends is the grizzley bear specialist for the Idaho Fish and Game Department. Grizzleys are NOT CUTE, FUZZY or SWEET!  :(

 

Anthropomorphic depictions of bears could get someone killed. I am adamantly opposed to them except for unarmed gun control people.  :rolleyes: Only an ignorant urban liberal could think that an ad like Geico's is cute.  My disdain for Geico, sadly, can't be increased. :angry:


I had one sent to the Academy Awards presentation for tonight.  It should be there right about.....NOW!  
 

The show starts in 1/2 hour, at 5:00PM, Pacific Time.  The handler will send him onstage at the right times.

 

Cat Brules

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1 hour ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

Here's one from forty or fifty years ago ~ but with a real bear.  Surprisingly, I never knew anyone who tried to take a bear for a jeep ride - everybody knew better.  Did know a fella who had dead buck suddenly wake up in the back of his Wagoneer.  He and his buddy found that to be kind of exciting!  ^_^

 

So - remember tossing the pull tab back into the can??  :lol:  I wonder how many got swallowed!  sick.gif

 

 

 

 

 

Did you notice the emphasis on not throwing the pull tab on the ground?

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5 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

Did you notice the emphasis on not throwing the pull tab on the ground?

 

Yup.  We used to toss 'em back into the can.  After all, we were the "Give a Hoot - Don't Pollute!" generation.  :)

 

Now the clods just toss the empty cans onto the ground.  :(

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2 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

Did you notice the emphasis on not throwing the pull tab on the ground?

 

2 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

 

Yup.  We used to toss 'em back into the can.  After all, we were the "Give a Hoot - Don't Pollute!" generation.  :)

 

Now the clods just toss the empty cans onto the ground.  :(


I remember not putting the tab in the can until you bent it 90 degrees and then popped it into the can so it wouldn’t get washed into your mouth and down your throat. 
I do know a guy, well, used to know a guy that actually swallowed a beer tab by doing just what the guy in the commercial did. Luckily the doctors were able to fish it out of him rather than open him up. 

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I remember fishing below Truman dam as a kid. The Rangers would do spot checks for valid licenses and other possible infractions. One of their favorites was to inspect your trash for empty drink cans then count the number of pull tabs. You were allowed 1 missing pull tab per person under the assumption that you carried an open can in with you.  So if there were 3 people and 12 empty cans you had better have at least 9 pull tabs. If they were beer cans then those in the party that were under age didn't count towards the missing tabs.

 

Each unaccounted for tab was a $50 ticket.  

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Remember these?  :)

 

They were actually quite cool ~ one of my buddies figured out that all ya had to do was rock the knuckles of your index finger over the top of the can and instantly pop 'em both open.  You could then widen the larger "drinkin' hole" opening if ya wanted.  ^_^

 

Worked great!  :lol:

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

I remember fishing below Truman dam as a kid. The Rangers would do spot checks for valid licenses and other possible infractions. One of their favorites was to inspect your trash for empty drink cans then count the number of pull tabs. You were allowed 1 missing pull tab per person under the assumption that you carried an open can in with you.  So if there were 3 people and 12 empty cans you had better have at least 9 pull tabs. If they were beer cans then those in the party that were under age didn't count towards the missing tabs.

 

Each unaccounted for tab was a $50 ticket.  

The obvious solution to that problem is to throw the cans in the bushes.

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3 minutes ago, Alpo said:

The obvious solution to that problem is to throw the cans in the bushes.

 

They had a camera with a telephoto lens and would film people dropping cans into the rocks. While coming up short a couple pull tabs usually only resulted in 1 fine for all of them and if the guy was in a good mood just a warning; willfully leaving trash was guaranteed to earn a ticket per item plus a court summons. Got real expensive real fast.

 

I know it sounds harsh but the litter was really bad and the strict enforcement was needed at the time. In 60 days the area below the dam went from smelling like a garbage dump to a pretty nice place to fish. They also did a good job of informing everyone of the zero tolerance policy before it went into effect.

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How many Rangers disappeared during that period of time?

 

Car Brules

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