[TenTec] OT: Progresso Soup

[Al Gulseth]

Don't get me started - most people don't realize how much sleight of hand goes 
into advertising in general. Without naming the time or place other than to 
say it was quite some time ago, a window/siding etc. company did a "telethon" 
on a TV station where I was a studio engineer. When the show went live I was 
close to where the owner or manager of the company was sitting off-camera. He 
picked up the phone and called the on-screen number. We could see the gal who 
answered: when she realized who it was, he said "don't look surprised, just 
talk to me like I'm a customer and you're setting up an appointment."

Guess they call that "priming the pump"....

73, Al

On Fri December 5 2014 10:51:09 pm Mike Bryce wrote:
> whoa….one heck of a thread here…
>
> Seriously, sending a email to complain about string can telephones in a
> soup ad, well, that’s odd even by my standards.
>
> Now, that being said, my wife asked me the other day how they (the ad
> people) got the GEICO insurance pig, Milton, to talk.
>
> I told her simply; if offered enough money, anyone will talk.
>
> Mike Bryce WB8VGE
> prosolar at sssnet.com
>
> > On 12/4/2014 1:51 PM, K3GHH wrote:
> >> This is almost as OT as they get, so OT foes, hit Delete immediately!
> >>
> >> Is anyone else in our group bugged by the Progresso soup TV ad that
> >> features a tin-can "telephone"? Surely some of you, like me, built and
> >> tried one as kids. The Progresso ad has the string hanging loose and
> >> immediately taking a 90-degree turn when it emerges from the bottom of
> >> the soup can. This probably wouldn't bug me so much if a friend and I
> >> hadn't been semi-successful with a string and tin can "telephone" back
> >> in the 1950s, so I know how they work, and it's not like that!
> >>
> >> I actually emailed Progresso and explained that its ad men could not
> >> possibly have ever used such a "telephone," but have not heard back
> >> (yet).
> >>
> >> --John K3GHH
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