More Annoying Commercials, And Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
I have a headache. Let’s make this one a quick one.
Quick-hitters:
- So I’m snacking on some of the yogurt snacks I ordered from Amazon.com earlier in the week, and I noticed that the front of the Harmony snack bags stated that their snacks were an “excellent source of calcium.”
I flipped the bag over, looked at the nutrition facts, and nearly gagged. Sure, each serving had 30% of the RDA of Calcium, but each serving also has 7g of saturated fat per serving (35%)!!!
I wonder if Amazon.com will give me a partial refund on the number of bags that I have yet to open 
- Don’t look now, but my Dodgers have won five straight, and are finally over .500!
Now if only we could dump Andruw Jones on some team for a penny on the dollar, though I fear that that is still asking too much.
- Current rebate-o-meter: $1700. Current toothpaste-o-meter: still 25, but that will be closer to 35 by the end of the week :P.
- Here are some annoying commercials that have caught my eye lately:
1) That stupid KFC commercial with the guy and girl sitting on stairs, with one of them declaring that he took a buck from his friend’s sofa to buy himself a KFC Snacker. “Give me back my buck.” “Actually, I’m eating it.” LOL!!!!!!! (Not.)
(Tangent: That stupid Pizza Hut commercial with the Tuscani pasta taste test just aired again.)
2) The Wendy’s commercial advertising their new chicken wraps…could the girl not wait two minutes to get to her desk and eat her snack? How do you know a commercial REALLY annoys me? Every time I see the commercial, I cheer for her to trip on the phone cord she steps over.
(I have issues. I am aware of that.)
3) Any and all Domino’s commercials with that annoying guy who’s clearly on speed.
(I might have mentioned this before, but I am convinced that these commercials exist only to hold our television shows hostage; once these companies reach a quota of sales, they will stop releasing these super-annoying commercials. Either that, or they exist solely to get us fat Americans to get off the couch and run towards our cars, screaming “Make these commercials stop!” as we drive off to the Drive-Thru to pick up whatever is advertised. If anyone can come up with a better reason for why these stupid commercials exist, I’m all ears.)
Now, the latest Carl’s Jr commercial with the boyfriend crying because of the Jalapeno Chicken sandwich he’s eating…that’s pure genius!
- Two out of three ain’t bad, right? I was impressed with the Rockets staving off elimination, and I couldn’t believe how poorly Dallas played. I expected Avery Johnson to get canned, but not this quickly. I expect D’Antoni to resign early next week as well, despite reports to the contrary.
Re: Spurs-Suns…it’s awfully tough to win a game when your MVP point guard commits four backbreaking TOs late, and then Boris Diaw contributes with a terrible TO of his own. It’s even tougher when you do it against the defending champs. What a way for the D’Antoni era to end.
In defense of the Suns, though, I offer these two points:
1) They say that a single play, even at the end of a game, doesn’t determine the outcome. Therefore, I offer three questionable fourth quarter plays: the fifth foul on Shaq (Duncan might grazed Shaq’s leg, if there was any contact at all, before he tripped on himself), the fifth foul on Amare (it looked like Amare leaned backwards), and the deflection by Bowen off Nash (I didn’t see the ball go off Nash’s leg at all). If even one play goes in the Suns’ favor, who knows what the end result of Game 5 ends up being?
2) I’ll copy and paste what I said last time regarding Shaq and changing teams:
(As far as Shaq is concerned, note that his teams have never done well in Year One of his stay at each stop. I actually expect the Suns to be pretty damn good next year. Now if they could only avoid SA or LAL next year…)
Then again, he is going to be 36 next year, and Nash isn’t getting any younger. Add to that the fact that Suns will probably be playing in a new system next year, and you can’t 100% love their chances. Then again, their starting lineup is intact—Nash, Bell, Diaw, Amare, Shaq—and if they could get one wing defender and a scoring backup PG (I know, MUCH easier said than done), they’ll be just fine.
As far as Dallas is concerned, they are in huge trouble. A $100 million+ payroll for THAT performance? Well, at least Michael Finley is off their books next year. But seriously, the Jason Kidd experiment is not working, and if the Mavs could move Josh Howard for fifty cents on the dollar, they might want to do so. I don’t see how the Mavs fix things in one year; they might have to consider rebuilding.
Yeah, I realize that R word isn’t in Mark Cuban’s vernacular, but unless he can trade Jason Kidd for, say, Jermaine O’Neal, Dallas isn’t going to do a damn thing next year.
Quickly…
1) Who didn’t see Boston blowing out Atlanta tonight?
2) Who wasn’t shocked that the greatest player in the history of the NBA (LeBron) didn’t get the foul call at the end of the Wizards-Cavs game? I’m surprised David Stern didn’t protect his biggest investment from a trip back to Washington with a foul call there.
(Not that NBA games are fixed, or anything…)
Let me just touch on one thing with this post — the Wendy’s snack wrap commercial. I don’t doubt that someone would eat as they walked through an office, but the woman I picture weighs quite a bit more than 90 pounds and sure as hell wouldn’t be nibbling the thing. A person hungry enough to eat and run would pop a snack wrap like a tic-tac.
LOL. So true.
The girl took two bites out of the wrap, and barely made a dent in it! My three year old nephew could probably eat a quarter of the wrap in two bites.