TV ads

orezok · Aug 27, 2014

Bird said:
How many are old enough to know what GEICO stood for? (G)overnment (E)mployees (I)nsurance (CO)mpany. If I remember right, they first tried to sell me insurance in 1959 when I became a clerk in the U.S. Post Office.
:laughing:

Or how about Fedmart started by Sol Price for government employees only which became Price Club which became Costco!

Bird · Aug 27, 2014

orezok said:
Or how about Fedmart started by Sol Price for government employees only which became Price Club which became Costco!

And when I got a membership in the first Sam's Club in Dallas, membership was only open to government and utility company employees.

mjarrels · Aug 28, 2014

Joined price club when living in San Diego... I almost went broke saving money! The TV and radio ads I hate most beside all the insurance ads are the ones for HARP... My two homes are paid for so I hate the back to back ads for refinaning home loans.

mark

Danno1 · Sep 2, 2014

Bird said:
The drug ads are not likely to ever get me to buy their drugs, but I do sometimes get a laugh at them when they run through their list of possible "side effects" that sound much worse than the problem they're intended to cure.

This ^

Side effects may include headaches, nausea, diarrhea, and upset stomach. For a drug that cures..................................upset stomach!!!!

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RandyT · Sep 2, 2014

Personally I likes the ad a few years ago for the restless leg syndrome medication that has a side effect of compulsive gambling.

jerrybob · Sep 2, 2014

Like most of you.....hate the commercials......especially at election time. When all the initiative folks and politicians start throwing the mud.......I just turn the TV off....can't stand it!