Have you noticed the new ad campaign for Cottonelle toilet paper? It features a really cute Golden Retreiver puppy. Or is it a lab? Believe me, I've got nothing against pictures of cute puppies. Nor do I have any inherent objection to a legal product being publicized. But apparently Cottonelle felt they needed to saturate the Chicago commuter train station with these ads, each of which contains what I assume is intended to be a clever crack ("heh heh") somehow related to your butt and the wiping thereof.
"Sales of thongs to men were up last year." "Too much bran?" etc.
Just getting off my train I walked under 3 of these signs, each several feet square. When I reached the front of the station, a number of even larger billboards of the same ilk faced me wherever I cast my eyes. It seemed as tho they bought every billboard in the damned station just to be sure everyone started and ended their commuting days thinking about a$$holes.
I'm no marketing genius, so could someone clue me in on the deal? Is this supposed to be hilarious in some sophomoric Beavis and Butthead sense? "Heh heh - they're talking about butts!"
Cut me a break. I'm slogging to and from the office every day, trying to minimize my awareness of rubbing elbows and a$$holes with countless strangers. I'd be perfectly happy, thank you very much, if you didn't go through all this effort and expense to make the subject of my fellow commuters' buttwiping practices and concerns even momentarily cross my mind. Hell, not even that cute chick!
Yes, I think they are all a$$holes. I just don't really need to think ABOUT their a$$holes!
Dins-I prescribing a healthy dose of Happy Hour for you-STAT!
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." (Winston Churchill)
Originally posted by Dinsdale: I'm slogging to and from the office every day, trying to minimize my awareness of rubbing elbows and a$$holes with countless strangers.
Uh, what train and what car are you on? I take the train every day too and have never once encounted any a$$hole rubbing going on. Is there a special car for that? Seriously though, I felt that ad campaign was a little "abrasive" too.
Originally posted by Flora Klok: Uh, what train and what car are you on? I take the train every day too and have never once encounted any a$$hole rubbing going on. Is there a special car for that?
Well, the conductors do keep asking passengers to "Kindly move to the rear"...
