Posted on 05/06/2010 4:11:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
That looks like something to add to the reading list- thanks!
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Thanks 2ndDivisionVet! I haven't been to one in years, this summer I'm going to make it. |
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I’ve tried viewing, but it takes too long for the runes to load on the parchment.
(A few —okay, okay; SEVERAL— decades ago, I was a pretty fair man-at-arms in the SCA.)
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That commercial bugs the 'heck;' out me. If anyone who knows anything pays half way close attention they see those guitars are not plugged in and no amp is to be found, so they would be basically silent beyond 4 feet. (and the drummer would get killed for making all that noise)
That being said it is a nice subliminal commercial for Fender Guitars. In this pic the 'lead' guy is playing a Fender Jazzmaster©. In others it's a Stratocaster© and a Telecaster© in the first commercial for this company. Which I can't even recall who it is?!?
(Out of my 8 guitars, I prefer my '84 Stratocaster©. 'Old Red' is my baby)
The commercials are famously stupid, especially the main guy, who is French Canadian and lip-syncs the songs, which someone else sings.
French Canadian?!?
'Series'. That I didn't know. And is the dumbest thing for an Ad agency to do (IMO). He must know someone. And it sure is 'famously stupid', and irritating as 'heck'.
If it wasn't for the Fender guitars in them I'd shoot my TV (aka: Do An Elvis)
:’)
woohoo! Renn Faires are the highlight of summer time!
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Hmmmph! I'll have you know I swung a mean sword that buckled many a swasher!
That SCA sword & shield training saved my Mundane World bacon twice.
Once, by grabbing a replica short sword off the wall when a drunk came "home" through the wrong front door, and was intent on throwing me out of "his" apartment. Flat of the blade to side of his head, and then several whacks across his backside once I had him aimed back toward the front door did the trick.
The other time, a fellow longshoreman decided to attack me with a crowbar, essentially a very blunt sword; a hardhat makes a pretty decent buckler, if you use the crash webbing as a handle. Took him down & disarmed him with moves that would have made my training master (a son of Marion Zimmer Bradley, no less!) proud of me.
OH! That was for the 'parchment loading' comment; not the other. Duh!
Au contraire, the commercials are actually popular with a number of people, the type that like mind-numbing idiocy. Apparently there’s far too many people out there who fit that description.
Oh whoa. He paints like an angel.
Me, I love that guy.
I didn't know that, and I liked the Byrds - way back when.
My thinking was more along the line of "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" by Simon & Garfunkel.
an aside: Paul Simon is a pretty darn good song writer, arranger and guitar player, which he doesn't get credit for. Some of his chord sequences are for sure not your typical 'I IV V' (or variation thereof) of R&R. He throws some chord sequences in that on paper just don't look right, until you play it then it's, wow that really works.
Nice!
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