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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 7:35 AM A bit of this was mentioned in a previous thread a couple of months back, but I have noticed these interesting ads during the show here in the S.F. Bay Area: -Radio Shack for smoke detector batteries (previously mentioned)
-Community college ads
-Dr. Drew taking part in a "We're Cracking Down" ad for the California Highway Patrol (What was especially great about this one was the first time I heard it was right before the show where Drew was complaining that he had been ticketed!) Any other interesting ones? —Lou Cypher |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 10:27 AM LOL, I thought it was hysterical to hear all the Summer courses at jr colleges commercials during Loveline, too. I like the Asian massage parlor that advertises on Loveline in SF... I might have to go there sometime! I heard a real funny/ironic one the other night but sadly I can't remember it. However I seriously want to shoot myself over those Sobe commercials.. —dr ipod |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 10:38 AM Can't help you there, Lou. I always turn the sound off as soon as the ads come on and turn it back on 5 minutes later. I did once catch a corny ad for Trojans, which I have no earthly use for (unless I decide to become a mule for the Cali cartel). —Saffeau |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 11:23 AM In Portland we have a funny one about housing discrimination. These two mexican guys call up with derogatory mexican names and ask about an apartment that's available, and the woman tells them it's been taken. Then, "Tyrone Banks" calls up and asks about it, and she tells him it's not available. Then, Stereotypical white guy "Grahm Wellington" calls up, and it is available. —Liface |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 12:21 PM
Edited Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 12:23 PM 'face: I know the commercial you speak of, but it's not 2 latinos and a black guy, it's a Latino, and Indian, Black, and White guys(The names themselves are ricockulously stereotypical; something like Juan Lopez, Sanjay Kumar, Tyrone something (you may be right about "Banks"), then the white Wellington dude with just the slightest air of aristocracy.). Using stereotypes to combat stereotypes seems kinda silly. Which reminds me...
The City Of Berkeley (CA) has as it's official logo this succession of silhouetted faces of obvious races - the black guy has bigger lips, the whitey has blue eyes, the asian is somewhat smaller, etc. I know that the point is celebrating their diversity, but it's always struck me as a bit ham-handed and bordering on a bit unnecessary. Couple that with the law disallowing smoking within 20 feet of doorways, windows, and vents of businesses (this would essentially mean if you're walking and smoking, you must be about 6 feet in the street), that Berkeley tries so hard to be left, it's swung all the way over to the right. —Lou Cypher |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 1:00 PM liface: That's a Public Service Announcement, not a commercial. They (at Loveline) play them during the airing of the commercials played by whatever radio station is broadcasting the show. When I get the live feed of Loveline on Sunday nights here in the DC area, they play the PSAs live, because it's a live feed haha (I forgot where I was going with that). But the housing discrimination PSA is retarded. Speaking of PSAs, they need to get some new ones. I listen to the live feed of Loveline every Sunday night when it's broadcast here on WHFS, and I have the order of the PSAs airing memorized haha. I can usually recite them, verbatim. That's sad. The worst PSA, though, would easily have to be the Airplane Turbulance PSA, which Adam has ripped up on numerous occasions. Also, the Amazing Grace *gunshot* PSA is pretty funny, for the wrong reasons. Adam was in rare form when he tore that one apart. If anyone remembers which show that was, could you let me know please? Thanks. —thejoeinme |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 1:52 PM The PSAs are put together by well-meaning but culturally tone-deaf doofuses operating on an extremely tiny budget. Or else they're thrown together cynically by radio stations in order to fulfill some FCC requirement. That airplane turbulence one must be the latter: it's so ridiculous, it sounds like it was made by the wags at South Park. —Saffeau |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 1:57 PM I don't remember exactly when Adam ripped that one apart, but I don't think it was terribly long ago. —puck71 |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 2:04 PM Adam has ripped up that turbulence PSA at least three times in the last two years. The last one I remember was about 7 or 8 months ago. He also ranted about that housing discrimination one about the same time. Anderson played it for him just to watch him fume and sputter. —Saffeau |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 6:09 PM It's bad times for the radio station if you're hearing the PSAs during Loveline instead of local commercials. That means they can't get any advertising to play during that timeslot, and that's never good news for a radio show. I'm not saying they'll drop Loveline for sure, but it's still not a good sign. —Jeremy |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 6:17 PM Don't radio stations have to play a certain number of PSAs during the broadcast day? I guess if you hear a lot of PSAs during Loveline's commercial breaks, that's bad news. As I said, I turn off the sound during the breaks. Are they running a shitload of PSAs instead of commercials? —Saffeau |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 6:18 PM Jeremy's crazy. Stations are definitely required to play numerous PSAs and the majority of them get played at night. Loveline is on at night, therefore you hear PSAs. Frankly I only remember hearing them like once a week if that. And I haven't heard one for a while here.. But if you tune into any station after 10pm you're bound to hear some PSAs. I hear a lot of anti drunk driving ones on Clear Channel stations. —dr ipod |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 8:18 PM I'm talking about the ones playing on the Loveline stream, dipshit. No station will play a two hour show with zero commercials if there are businesses that will buy spots. A lack of commercials at any time on a radio station is a very good indication of trouble. —Jeremy |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 8:33 PM I can't stand the Axe deodorant ads. I don't mind that Drew and Adam are doing them, but here in Seattle they're so frequent it drives me nuts! They're also bad because they play off of their Radio personalities so poorly. —Ogm |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 8:34 PM The Axe ads are played during network avails, so everyone hears them. I agree, they are extremely annoying. Axe must have paid big bucks for them. —Jeremy |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 8:38 PM The Axe commercials are cut from the 91X stream I believe. Occasionally I hear Adam say something, like the start of one of the ads, but they cut right to their streaming ads. —puck71 |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 9:25 PM Can somebody describe the "air turbulance" PSA to me? thanks —Johnny |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 10:02 PM In The PSA about housing discrimination, all of the stereotypes are voiced by the same guy, and I think that is supposed to be the point.
I have seen the same PSA on TV, and it's just the same white guy sitting at a desk making all the calls. And the black guy's name is Tyrone Washington. —Dusty TheHick |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 10:21 PM Wow. That fact just makes it even more retarded. —Jeremy |
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Thursday, June 24, 2004 at 12:21 AM
No federal law or rule requires stations to broadcast "public service announcements" of any kind.
The FCC has never thought it necessary to impose a specific requirement to provide PSA's on broadcasters. Broadcasters use the public airwaves to conduct their business. In return for their use of the public spectrum, they are required to serve the "public interest, convenience, and necessity." What a broadcaster should do to satisfy this "public interest" obligation has long been the source of debate at the Commission.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004 at 1:06 AM Johnny: The turbulance PSA lists activities our bodies are capable of withstanding, like football. I can't remember what activities they listed, but they were retarded, and most of them could do some real damage to a person. Help me out here people. Then they explain that ONE thing our bodies weren't built for is turbulance while flying in an aircraft... so stay buckled. What a waste of time, energy and money to create such worthless crap. —roadrage |
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Thursday, June 24, 2004 at 1:06 AM Sounds like PSAs, though not strictly required by FCC regulations, are a sort of insurance by radio stations to keep the FCC off their backs. (I remember reading that back in the '60s a federal court ruled that for every tobacco ad on radio or tv, the broadcasters had to run three anti-tobacco PSAs. In response, tobacco companies stopped advertizing on radio and tv because the PSAs had such a powerful negative effect on cigarette sales.) —prick stuck |
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Thursday, June 24, 2004 at 6:42 AM I have several of the PSAs shared on the DC hub as well. If you do a search for PSA you should find them. —puck71 |
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Thursday, June 24, 2004 at 9:17 PM I don't know if it's STILL running, but up until recently I was hearing a Westwood One PSA that began with solemn string music and the announcer saying "As the nation stands united in grief over the recent attacks...." I used to think -- "recent attacks"? Was there another one, did I miss something? Good Christ, they're talking about Sept. 11. Over two years ago! Nothing like the sweet stupid irony, though, of the Recording Artists Against Drunk Drivng PSAs. Who better to speak directly to the hearts and minds of the typical Loveline listener than the musicians they listen to everyday and look up to so highly -- artists like Darius Rucker of Hootie and the Blowfish, and the dingbat beehive hairdo chick from the B-52s? Or, who could forget.. "Oy, kiddies, this is Rod Stewart. Whenever I tuck into a magnum of Dom, I always make sure to have a designated limo driver. When you degenerate, designate." "Hi, this is Peter Buck of REM. Whenever I drink 15 glasses of red wine on a trans-atlantic flight and launch into a fit of air-rage and smear yogurt on the flight attendants, the pilot always radios ahead to London to arrange for a designated driver." —baja |
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Monday, September 26, 2005 at 8:45 PM Since you brought it up, Hash, here's another old one I ran across recently, and of which I'm particularly proud:
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 1:23 AM
Edited Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 1:24 AM
hate the game, not the player. Let's just analyze this sentence, shall we?
We are to hate the game, but not the player(s) of it. Sounds fair enough in theory, no? But, let's see....From where did the game originate? Hmmmmmm.
See, in recent years, "players," or as we used to call them "unscrupulous bastards," decided that all that was necessary to justify (and, in their own minds, excuse) their bad behavior was to give themselves a "hip" title ("players," or for the ultra-hip "playahs") and decided that they were in fact a cool new subculture. Ah, but unfortunately, some hair-splitting busy-body (i.e. "the man") pointed out the flaw in the logic by asking "Players of WHAT, exactly." It was then that these dynamite individuals known as "players" decided that as long as they had the title of "player," and were involved in "the game" (how convenient), that all of their bad behavior (such as lying, deceit, and various other forms of manipulation to get what they want, which is usually [but not always] sex) would be excused. Hell, ADMIRED, even.
You can't polish a turd. You can rap it in whatever "clever" or "hip" little title you want. Bad behavior is STILL bad behavior.
Without the players, there would BE no game. So if we are to hate the game, it only follows that we should hate its creators. Guess who THAT would be!
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Monday, September 26, 2005 at 8:57 PM Now which is it: do you all think that 'celebrity' is a spastic concept in a constant thought motion? OR is it cool for people to be famous, but oh boy do the celebratante look silly when they try to exist in sentience sentences? And if Bijou had fat tits, would she be ever able to go anywhere without a magpie stick? —MajandraFan |
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Monday, September 26, 2005 at 9:06 PM Sweet, thought!
But wouldn't this post have been better in four different basic colours, and scrolling and blinking all over the place? I love the suspense of a good scrolling sentence! Since you brought it up, Hash, here's another old one I ran across recently, and of which I'm particularly proud:
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 1:23 AM
Edited Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 1:24 AM
hate the game, not the player. Let's just analyze this sentence, shall we?
We are to hate the game, but not the player(s) of it. Sounds fair enough in theory, no? But, let's see....From where did the game originate? Hmmmmmm.
See, in recent years, "players," or as we used to call them "unscrupulous bastards," decided that all that was necessary to justify (and, in their own minds, excuse) their bad behavior was to give themselves a "hip" title ("players," or for the ultra-hip "playahs") and decided that they were in fact a cool new subculture. Ah, but unfortunately, some hair-splitting busy-body (i.e. "the man") pointed out the flaw in the logic by asking "Players of WHAT, exactly." It was then that these dynamite individuals known as "players" decided that as long as they had the title of "player," and were involved in "the game" (how convenient), that all of their bad behavior (such as lying, deceit, and various other forms of manipulation to get what they want, which is usually [but not always] sex) would be excused. Hell, ADMIRED, even.
You can't polish a turd. You can rap it in whatever "clever" or "hip" little title you want. Bad behavior is STILL bad behavior.
Without the players, there would BE no game. So if we are to hate the game, it only follows that we should hate its creators. Guess who THAT would be!
—Dusty TheHick —Dusty TheHick The "game" is life, or as Darwin called it, the God Manifesto Absolute.
"Don't hate me for doing anything I can to survive (or support a lavish lifestyle far beyond basic survival, but the difference between rich and poor is really splitting hairs), even though the all-out capitalist attitude destroys everything good and precious and ornate that capitalists employ to defeat their beautiful kind 'enemies', the Pixies and Dwarfs and the rarely seen Honest People (that hide with their magic whenever the Big People walk past)." It is the same when people say "I am against the war (whichever one they happen to think is THE WAR at the time) but I support the troops."
You can't play war games without fucking soldiers!
Spit in a soldier's face, everyone destroy the mercenary mindset, down with capitalism!
And all other politio-philosophical superstructures! Fuck god! I think my post is a hair better, sorry. —MajandraFan |
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Monday, September 26, 2005 at 9:09 PM Yes, but mine can be understood by people who DON'T spend all day in their underwear, swilling Surge, and playing those pay-per-month internet video games. —Dusty TheHick |
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Monday, September 26, 2005 at 9:41 PM Maybe in the land where 'pwned' means anything other than 'i'm a fucking geek'. —MajandraFan |
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 1:51 PM
Edited Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 1:52 PM Wow, remember when intelligent people had substantive conversations about on-topic stuff? —Full Meat Not that I disagree with you. But I can't help but think, every time I hear one of the super-old-timer-veterans saying stuff like this: Post some substantative threads about on-topic stuff, if the current state of the forum bothers you. It won't change if you simply whine. Remember Osmosis? The only reason he came back was to yell at us, then he left again. You can do better than that. Can't you? If the older members can't do better than that, then good riddance, don't let the door hit you on the way out. —Dark Laith |
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 2:09 PM ^^^
Not quoted for agreement. Here hear. —bguirk |
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 2:15 PM Laith, if you're directing that comment specifically at me, then I would ask you to check my postings. I do my best to have high signal-to-noise compared to a lot of the polluters around here. In addition, to deal with the decline of Forum quality, I created the Notifier to help me separate the wheat from the chaff and I've shared that tool with all of the members, many of which I'm sure are tired of the "stream-of-consciousness" posts that have plagued the Forum lately. —Full Meat |
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 2:28 PM Here hear. —bguirk Hmm, you use both spellings. Clever.
Laith, if you're directing that comment specifically at me, then I would ask you to check my postings. I do my best to have high signal-to-noise compared to a lot of the polluters around here. In addition, to deal with the decline of Forum quality, I created the Notifier to help me separate the wheat from the chaff and I've shared that tool with all of the members, many of which I'm sure are tired of the "stream-of-consciousness" posts that have plagued the Forum lately.
—Full Meat Sorry, got a bit worked up. I wasn't specifically telling you to leave, or anything. I'm just saying, occasionally old members will pop up to say how bad the forum has gotten, and will then leave again. I'm appreciative that you've been actively trying to improve the forum instead of just complaining and abandoning the way the others did. —Dark Laith |
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 3:07 PM In addition, to deal with the decline of Forum quality, I created the Notifier to help me separate the wheat from the chaff and I've shared that tool with all of the members, many of which I'm sure are tired of the "stream-of-consciousness" posts that have plagued the Forum lately. —Full Meat I'm sure there are about as many opinions on the decline of TLC as there are members. I could see how someone who only comes here to read about the doings of A & D would get as annoyed as someone who only listens to Lovelines for "the crazy calls." —bguirk |
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 8:47 PM I think that said "decline" is only natural. With so many longtime members, sooner or later we run out of on-topic things to discuss, but still enjoy hanging out. —Dusty TheHick |
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at 2:07 AM Word. You's my peeps, yo. Catloaf seriously needs some sleep. —catloaf |
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Friday, September 30, 2005 at 2:13 AM
Edited Friday, September 30, 2005 at 2:14 AM I think that said "decline" is only natural. With so many longtime members, sooner or later we run out of on-topic things to discuss, but still enjoy hanging out.
—Dusty TheHick I'd like to point out that I've been listening to the show for 9 years or more, and rarely is there a fresh topic or new question when it comes to the calls. Yet, I still listen and am still vastly entertained. I laugh a LOT and occasionally learn a little something. There's a parallel (in regards to the forum) in that statement somewhere. —catloaf |
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Saturday, October 1, 2005 at 3:08 PM I live in Louisiana and we get the gayest "Loveline" commercials.
Here are a few: The one where a female narrator says, "This man might sound odd, but to his two year daughter blah blah blah..." The guy says, "Low-fat milk, no-fat milk? They rhyme. (I don't recall the exact dialogue.) At the end of the commercial the guy asks his daughter, "Can you say "Gargonzola?" She says, "Go-ga-dola" 3 Doors Down talking about before they won Grammys, before they had an overseas concert, etc. "we" heard them first on radio. When I listen on Monday I'll post some more.
At the moment I don't recall the others. —Sassafras Roots |
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Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 2:03 PM Yesterday, I saw the "Graham Wellington" housing discrimination PSA on TV again, for the first time in eons. It still gives me a chuckle. —Dusty TheHick |
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Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 2:07 PM I listen to a station out of St. Cloud that BARELY comes in here in the 'burbs of St. Paul, and they definitely do no advertising locally, so we get to hear all the incredibly awesome PSA's. My favorite is still when they have the "Do you know your TV theme songs?" one. And all the shows they referenced were off the air...Some time ago. Haha. —andrewwagner777 |
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Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 10:30 PM i did not know that. —plurry |
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