{"id":2316,"date":"2014-11-20T23:50:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T04:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2014-11-20T23:55:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T04:55:46","slug":"2316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2316","title":{"rendered":"Feeling your oats."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oats\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Commercials.\u00a0 They come and they go.<\/p>\n

The Wide World of Advertising.\u00a0 Branding.\u00a0 Marketing.\u00a0 We are all swept up in it… whether we want to be or not.\u00a0 If you watch TV, listen to the radio, clickety-clack on the internet, get email, use Social Media, and on… you are in the midst of the Advertising Game.<\/p>\n

I will never understand it.
\nThey create great schematics.\u00a0\u00a0 They come up with plans and schemes, strategies and ideas.\u00a0 Biff in R& D has a new proposal.\u00a0 Kip in Trending Statistics has a new proposition.\u00a0\u00a0 And Ted…. in accounting has a completely different suggestion.\u00a0 Whoa Nellie, Whoa..\u00a0 There are action points and projects and\u00a0 systems of method & stratagem.<\/p>\n

It is all about the big money…. I will tell you.\u00a0 And. There are a lot of big dollars in our hot little hands at stake. Not necessarily yours and mine … but the masses of consumers… here, there and everywhere.<\/p>\n

What I don’t understand… really… is why things come and go?<\/p>\n

I miss Mr. Whipple and his little toilet paper squeezing fetish.\u00a0 I also yearn to see the Imperial Margarine guy… getting his crown.<\/p>\n

Madge doesn’t soak in it anymore.\u00a0 Dag nab it.<\/p>\n

What the heck ever happened to the warm and fuzzy moments of the Cotton Commercials?<\/p>\n

What about the long nostalgic walks down the long hallway in the Lifesaver Commercials?\u00a0 Wasn’t everything… a “Lifesaver Moment”?<\/p>\n

Today… the commercial are cool and sleek… vogue and hip.\u00a0 They all sound like the music from Juno.\u00a0 Or Sex in the City.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong.\u00a0 I think today’s commercials are as snappy as they get.\u00a0 Like Mini-Series.\u00a0 But when the Quaker-Oat-Dude used to wink and smile… I felt a REAL connection.\u00a0\u00a0 Like I could really put my “Quaker” on…. and feel totally good about it.<\/p>\n

I just get a little wistful and sentimental sometimes… you will have to excuse me.\u00a0 Every time I buy tuna… which is pretty often… I shed a little tear for Charlie.\u00a0 He had his 15 minutes of fame.\u00a0 And now he is just some schmuck of a fish on the front of a tuna can.\u00a0\u00a0 Let’s not even mention the Chicken of the Sea Mermaid. I think she is in a home for unwed mothers… these days.<\/p>\n

And the Frito Bandito?\u00a0\u00a0 Deported.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was an illegal immigrant.\u00a0 I mean… nothing else is made in the U.S.A.\u00a0 So what is the big deal about Bandito?<\/p>\n

I will never understand it all.\u00a0 I think I will just go put on a cotton sweater and do some dishes in Palmolive.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When all else fails… I’ll hug a roll of toilet paper.<\/p>\n

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“One man’s uplift is another man’s sentimental hooey.”\u00a0 Josh Radnor<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Commercials.\u00a0 They come and they go. The Wide World of Advertising.\u00a0 Branding.\u00a0 Marketing.\u00a0 We are all swept up in it… whether we want to be or not.\u00a0 If you watch TV, listen to the radio, clickety-clack on the internet, get email, use Social Media, and on… you are in the midst of the Advertising Game. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}