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- From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: CBM Advertising
- Date: 28 Jan 92 17:16:19 GMT
-
- In article <mykes.6736@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG> mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
- >Seems to me that CBM should get Dan Barrett to do their next Amiga
- >adbvertising campaing. DON'T YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO YELL AT THE CONSUMER TO
- >GET HIS ATTENTION? "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU USING A DOS/DOG MACHINE WHEN YOU
- >COULD BE USING THE BEST?"
-
- Dammit, Mike -- there you go, violating your non-disclosure
- agreement. Oh well, now that the topic is out in the open, I might as
- well talk about it.
-
- Yes, it's true: Commodore has hired BLAZEMONGER, INC. to do its
- next generation of television commercials! Thanks to the astounding,
- universal success of our BLAZEMONGER and PHRASEMONGER products, we were
- approached by Commodore at last year's DEVCON and the deal was made.
-
- Here is a SPECIAL PREVIEW of the first upcoming Amiga commercial by
- the MARKETING GENIUSES at BLAZEMONGER, INC. Our predictions show that at
- LEAST 90,000 sales will result directly from each broadcast of this
- commercial... GUARANTEED!
-
- It begins with soothing music and a scene of ocean waves lapping
- gently at the shore of a tropical island beach. A voice says:
-
- "Just imagine...
-
- ... a computer so amazing, so powerful, that the
- most difficult tasks execute with blinding speed.
-
- [A flash of lightning strikes a palm tree and causes a bright
- explosion. The beach-goers flee in terror.]
-
- ... a computer so fast, simple to use, that it takes you
- higher than the height of the highest heights.
-
- [Cut to a view of the earth from the US Space Shuttle. Australia is
- cleverly labeled "AMIGA" for a touch of subliminal advertising.]
-
- ... a machine so advanced that it can operate an electron
- microscope, yet so friendly that it licks your face.
-
- [Cut to an X-ray diagram of a large dog.]
-
- ... a computer than can do ANYTHING!
-
- [Cut to HAM picture of a size 41 girdle covered with maple syrup.]
-
- WELL?!? WHY DON'T YOU *OWN* ONE, STUPID????? Are you just
- IGNORANT NATURALLY, or did you have PAINFUL SURGERY to attain
- TOTAL BRAINLESSNESS????
-
- [Cut to the flag of whatever nation is watching the commercial,
- waving in the simulated wind.]
-
- The Amiga is the ULTIMATE, ULTIMATE computer -- EVERYBODY
- knows that. So get WITH it, DOOOD!!! Any OTHER computer
- isn't worth the GRIMY DIRT on its RETURN KEY! BLEAH!!!
-
- [Cut to silicon-chip cleanroom.]
-
- First, we've got HARDWARE. Oy, do we got hardware. The
- HARDEST in the INDUSTRY!! Our chips are made of a secret
- TITANIUM STEEL/DIAMOND ALLOY, covered with MOLTEN LEAD and
- garnished with a sprig of PARSLEY! [Cut to Julia Child,
- nodding approval.]
-
- [Cut to shelves and shelves of software.]
-
- Then, we've got SOFTWARE. You NAME it, we GOT it. Graphics,
- programming tools, games, word processors, games, and
- other stuff!!
-
- [Cut to successful-looking business office, full of good-looking
- businesspeople. Way in the back of the picture is Irving Gould,
- stacking money into neat piles.]
-
- Business applications? OF COURSE!! MILLIONS of business
- applications!! BILLIONS of them!!!!! Oh yes! For instance,
- for instance, er, um, uh... uh..., yeah, LOTS of business
- applications!!! TONS of them!!!
-
- [Cut to scientists in lab coats with "Amiga" decals. One of them
- looks not entirely unlike Dave Haynie (or Peter Cherna... whoever
- is cheaper).]
-
- Finally, there's the OPERATING SYSTEM: the most ADVANCED
- operating system on the PLANET. Multitasking? You GOT it!
- Run ANY NUMBER of applications SIMULTANEOUSLY to your
- HEART'S DESIRE!!
-
- [A low, ominous rumble begins...]
-
- And of course, ONLY the Amiga runs the most DEVASTATING game
- ever produced: BLAZEMONGER '92!!!
-
- [Cut to actual footage of the Nagasaki atomic bomb, followed by a
- short but bloody animation of dying children being eaten alive by
- Nancy Reagan.]
-
- So do the SMART thing today... and buy AMIGA! Made by
- COMMODORE, who is not a games-machine factory.
-
- AMIGA: Making the Imagination of Tomorrow Make Today's
- Imagination Possible... Today!"
- <Catchy, eh??>
-
- So there you have it -- our commercial! It will air for the first
- time tomorrow night on ZBS. Watch for it!
-
- Dan
-
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