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   BuzzDog said, 3 months ago

   Obviously Ellie is not a “price sensitive” shopper!

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   wndrwrthg said, 3 months ago

   There are many products I will not purchase simply because of their advertising.

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   SchmoozeMinkey said, 3 months ago

   Hey, it’s all about the cake!

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   diese said, 3 months ago

   I too, often will not buy a product, or shop at a store when I dislike their advertising. Sadly for all marketers (sp?), a good add might not want to make me buy things, but a bad add has kept me FROM buying things.

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   kfaatz925 said, 3 months ago

   Agreed - over-aggressive advertising is the worst.

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   FishStix said, 3 months ago

   “Save money. Live better.” Now that’s all I ask for in a precise ad. But I believe that one’s already taken.

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   Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

   I can’t stand a lot of shouting hype like this commercial. I also won’t buy something if the ad offends me and many do for various reasons.

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   Allan Claus said, 3 months ago

   I wouldn’t shop there either … I’m starting to think I should stop shopping at WalMart … I remember when it was Woolworths up here in Canada … you’d go in to the shoe department (Woolworths, Zellers, The Bay, Sears etc), the person working in shoes would sit you down, measure your foot with that slider thingy, then ask you what your price range was, style of shoe you wanted, then go pick 4 or 5 pairs. They would come back, and help you fit the shoes, tie them up, and have you walk around. NOW you see some lady, who says “that’s the shoes. Find a pair.” You ask for help she walks away. there is no customer service any more :(

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   bogeydog said, 3 months ago

   I forget this is set in Canada. My dad is from Saskaskschawan. How ever you spell it!
   And I’m sure someone will correct me!!

   When I think of this from my cousins point of view, some of this is funnier.

   But it is still my favorite comic!

   What ever did happen to “NotNorman”?
   He/she made things interesting.

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    Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago

    The trolls seem to only come out on weekends. Seems to be a different one each week.

    Mind you, NotNorm was getting pretty offensive, even for a troll - it’s membership may have been revoked.

    Sometimes really good ads backfire, too. I seen or heard some that are so funny, I have a good laugh, then when it’s over, I have no idea what was being advertised.

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    Gweedo Murray said, 3 months ago

    Not Norm is not himself. Agree with Burgundy.

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    The_Ol_Goaler said, 3 months ago

    I’m still waiting to find a car dealer who doesn’t YELL AT ME through his/her commercials… if ever I do, that dealer will have my business forever!

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    summerdog said, 3 months ago

    Where is the mute button on the TV remote?

    Lynn posted the following tidbit at FBORFW on 8/21/09

    “The art you are seeing now is a reworking of the beginning of the comic strip. The work will soon be running as it did originally without the new material added and the characters will age accordingly. With luck, the stories will continue right up to 2003 and beyond and you’ll see everything again.”

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    dianecliff said, 3 months ago

    Canadian Tire!!!

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

    As soon as I read this re-run of TBFW, I was reminded of what Walmart is.

    I would prefer to do my shopping at other stores. But, Walmart is on the bus line where I live and it is the most convenient to get to.

    And now that I am on the Lift Program (which I have to pay to ride), I can ride the regular city bus for free.

    If most of Walmart’s non-food items where not imported, there would be no such thing as a Walmart Superstore.

    Besides, if communist China ever decided to nationalize the Walmart factories and Walmart Superstores in its country, Walmart would go broke. Such has happened in other countries where American Corporations owned businesses in them.

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    thebird55 said, 3 months ago

    Did this make anyone else think of Billy Mays? I’m sorry he passed on, but I won’t miss him.

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    Susan001 said, 3 months ago

    No, actually I think of Crazy Eddie from the ‘70’s.

    One series of commercials that I loathe is for a laundry detergent that features an obnoxious Cockney washerwoman who is always butting into people’s privacy to spout the product.
    I’ll NEVER buy that detergent.

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    JanCinVV said, 3 months ago

    Reminds me of Cal Worthington and his “dog” Spot. (I even saw him live once at the Ringling circus in Long Beach, CA. His “dog” Spot was an elephant named Ruth.)

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    bogeydog said, 3 months ago

    YES bird55!!!
    Billy Mays!!

    I thought of him too!!

    But Oxy-Clean really does work!

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    Sternvogel said, 3 months ago

    bogeydog said, about 5 hours ago

    “I forget this is set in Canada. My dad is from Saskaskschawan. How ever you spell it!
    And I’m sure someone will correct me!!”

    Saskatchewan.

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    bald 716 said, 3 months ago

    if you will remember wal*mart used to have a banner
    “all products Made IN USA”

    since sam walton died, i don’t think 25% of their merchandise is made here anymore

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    jump4joy said, 3 months ago

    I won’t go to Carl’s Jr. for the same reason. Watching a guy slurp, smack, slobber, and drip while eating a hamburger just turns my stomach!

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    thebird55 said, 3 months ago

    Am I the only one who’s put off by commercials that demonstrate their crispy or crunchy food by having us listen to people masticate it?

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    TrapperJohn said, 3 months ago

    I do the same thing. Wish more of you all would boycott the products that have really bad advertising.

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    dkram said, 3 months ago

    Guico (Cavemen)
    Burger King (Very neg.)
    There are a few local car dealers that drive up the wall and a few other vertical objects.

    DMLL

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    Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago

    TrapperJohn - boycotting is one way, another is to write or e-mail the company that you found their ad irritating. And particularly, CC the radio station or TV station that played it. If they know their audience is turned off by such, things will change.

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    summerdog said, 3 months ago

    Does anyone else hate the OnStar ads heard on the radio with real people in car crashes that have been hurt? I get it OnStar! I don’t need to hear those poor people moaning in pain to know how your product works!

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    Ronshua said, 3 months ago

    jump4joy–That’s what I’m talkin about . If I haven’t eaten for three days and Carl’s Jr is the only game in town fifty miles both ways . There’s even money chance of them getting my 99 cents .

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    Noreen Klose said, 3 months ago

    I used to HATE Wheaties commercials.
    They would show some boy with perhaps his father, doing some crazy “guy thing”, with the Dad teaching the kid how to do it, or, cheering him on. Then, they’d start voicing over, LOUDLY—“He knows he’s a man…”

    Why they thought that that would cause American housewives (who do most of the shopping in this country) to buy Wheaties, I’ll NEVER understand.

    I have never bought Wheaties! There are plenty of other cereals to pick.

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    kab2rb said, 3 months ago

    GMA interviewed Billy. And the man does not yell all the time.
    For Walmart there are a lot of products they stopped carring.
    Because of price we have to go to someplace cheeper like: different types of vegtables, creal, potatoes, etc. At this place I figure vegtables(sorry about spelling I’m tired and its late) are that cannot control salt but rinse off. .45^ a can. Walmart is .60^. Starkist tuna at the cheeper is .50^. This cheeper place does not advertise on TV. A lot of people around know about it.

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    gene2u said, 3 months ago

    This comic generated a lot of discussion, but where’s the punch line? I guess it’s mildly ironic that advertising can drive people away rather than bring them in, but that’s not really a joke.

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    hildigunnur said, 3 months ago

    gene2u, the word “comics” actually doesn’t indicate everything has to be funny.

    Ppl, have you thought about whether NotNorman was banned and is now here under another name and with a slightly different style?

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    4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

    For twenty years or more, I refused to buy any Minute Maid product because Anita Bryant pitched it.

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    HyperShock said, 2 months ago

    If the jingle gets stuck in my head, I purposefully avoid that product.