July 30, 2008 on 4:39 pm | In Insanity, advertising | 1 Comment
Like all good things in life, humor in this blog comes in twos. Yesterday I found something weird in an Amazon ad, today I find something weird in a banner ad. Sometimes this world just makes no sense, and sometimes the creative decisions that go into our advertising just defy explanation. Take, for instance, this banner ad that I saw across my email this morning:

Apples are cute! (but not as cute as Bouncy Bee) They can be used to describe careers! This one’s a nurse! That one’s a teacher! O ho, that one’s even a clown! And then there’s a…

So…when you become a cop you get bizarre facial hair? A Fu Manchu mustache and a goatee? That’s what being a cop means to this artist? Do you automatically get this cheesy hairstyle when you join the force? Unless…

No, it can’t be that. It just can’t. You don’t need to go to school for that.
Its an apple of color.
Comment by Esbat — August 5, 2008 #