A new low. I presume that this Quicktime movie is one of those spoof/viral marketing efforts, but however you look at it I think it is just about the worst example I have seen of cynical commercialism.
What matters most is a camera phone for $20 less, apparently
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4 responses to “Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah!”
Well, I’m afraid it made me laugh 😀 I just took it as totally taking the piss out of all those other christmas ads.
And I think Tom Lehrer got there first anyway 45 years ago …..
“Relations, sparing no expense’ll
Send some useless old utensil
Or a matching pen and pencil
‘Just the thing I need, how nice’
It doesn’t matter how sincere it
Is, nor how heartfelt the spirit
Sentiment will not endear it
What’s important is the price.”
(C and I had the first 4 lines on the front of the Christmas cards we made a few years ago 🙂 )
From Lehrer’s A Christmas Carol, on An Evening (Wasted) with Tom Lehrer – one of my favourite albums ever.
Made me smile too!
yep I laughed! But then I worked in a well known card retailer for nearly two years and almost got accustomed to the fact there was some opportunity for a greetings card pretty much every week – and Christmas cards went out in August – and yes people shopped them too 🙂
I really don’t know quite why, but I did find that the “what matters most” bit particularly got to me and I found it very offensive.
But if others find it funny, I am pleased to have helped supply a laugh, there are too few of those. I did like the greeting – Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah!!