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can't stand "Flo" and the Progressive Insurance ads (vanity)
Progressive ^ | 6/11/2010 | self

Posted on 06/11/2010 11:41:57 AM PDT by KeyLargo

Anybody else find all of those Progressive Insurance commercials annoying?

Anyway, the owner of Progressive Insurance is a big lib.

Conservatives Urged to Avoid Progressive Insurance CNSNews.com ^ | 12/13/2005 | Unknown

Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:45:04 AM by oxcart

(CNSNews.com) - A conservative advocacy group is urging its supporters to cancel their policies with Progressive Insurance, after Peter Lewis, the company's chairman, reportedly gave $8.5 million to the American Civil Liberties Union. The multi-million dollar donation will help the ACLU advance its liberal agenda, including its "war on Christmas," the American Family Association warned. In an email message, AFA Founder and Chairman Don Wildmon urged his supporters to "sign a letter to Chairman Lewis, letting him know" that his donation to the ACLU is prompting conservatives to cancel their insurance policies. The AFA recently announced that it was ending its boycott of Target stores, after the retailer promised to use the word "Christmas" in its advertising and in-store promotions.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Humor; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: advertise; flo; gottawastebandwidth; insurance; payattentiontome; progressive; vandicapped; vanitywhileondrugs
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To: Scythian
I think she's cute ...

She definitely looks better without the overdone makeup.

41 posted on 06/11/2010 11:56:10 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: mmichaels1970
“Flo” is related to a family friend. I hear she’s a very nice person.

Ooh, you can settle a long-standing argument -- did she or did she not have a *baby bump*, they were hiding it behind the counter, her clipboard, etc., a year or so ago?

42 posted on 06/11/2010 11:56:15 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: Scythian

I love me some Flo!!! I think she is HOT!!


43 posted on 06/11/2010 11:56:25 AM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: KeyLargo

44 posted on 06/11/2010 11:57:01 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: KeyLargo

They’re a pain and so’s she. But I better STFU because someone here blasted me the other day for not fawning all over Amelie Earhart.

You never know how people get attached to personalities in the MSM


45 posted on 06/11/2010 11:57:34 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think." Adolph Hitler)
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To: mmichaels1970

An acting colleague said he has worked with her. I am just depressed that I didn’t know about that audition.


46 posted on 06/11/2010 11:57:41 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: NormsRevenge

Lewis and Soros are partners in lots of Marxist projects like funding MoveOn.org and the Huffington Post.


47 posted on 06/11/2010 11:57:48 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: MozarkDawg
did she or did she not have a *baby bump*

I'll have my daughter ask and post back.
48 posted on 06/11/2010 11:59:08 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Scythian

General rule:

The cuter the car-insurance ads, the worse the policy. Providers of good insurance policies expect that their customers will be reasonable, intelligent consumers. Scams and hacks expect that their customers will obey the suggestions of talking lizards.


49 posted on 06/11/2010 11:59:24 AM PDT by dangus
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To: KeyLargo

The only TV ads that I MUST mute: Hilshire Farms when they call cadence and then scream, “Go meat!” Ugh.


50 posted on 06/11/2010 11:59:28 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Every time a liberal whines, an angel gets his wings.)
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To: KeyLargo

Most TV ads are annoying, the “Most Interesting Guy in the World” is an exception.


51 posted on 06/11/2010 12:00:22 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: KeyLargo
I can take Flo a whole lot better than I can take this guy.

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52 posted on 06/11/2010 12:01:21 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: mmichaels1970; MozarkDawg

>>>> did she or did she not have a *baby bump*

>> I’ll have my daughter ask and post back.

You’re wondering if Flo was late? That’s inappropriate. Period.


53 posted on 06/11/2010 12:01:48 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dead

You were saying ?

54 posted on 06/11/2010 12:01:53 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: KeyLargo
I really don't care one way or another about the “Flo” commercials, but the commercials that are currently setting my teeth on edge are the zappos commercials with the fugly, bucktoothed puppets acting out voiced over calls to some sort of call center. I have no idea what zappos even is from the commercials. Are they selling a product? An Internet site? Long distance service? I don't know or care. But it's obvious they are to cheap to use real actors...
55 posted on 06/11/2010 12:02:50 PM PDT by apillar
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To: rwfromkansas

Same with me. I tried to switch but could not get anyone to come close to matching their rates. & I have not had a ticket of claim in 10 years.


56 posted on 06/11/2010 12:05:09 PM PDT by streetsmart (I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees)
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To: dangus

Pun intended?


57 posted on 06/11/2010 12:05:56 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: KeyLargo
During that commercial where the guys are marching through a field singing "I wear no pants..." I heard my younger son on the other end of the bit sofa mutter "Ha! Those guys are homos."

I pretended not to hear and Mom was out of the room. I left the room to chuckle - he's too young to be talking like that, but he has an older brother...

58 posted on 06/11/2010 12:06:47 PM PDT by Sax
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To: KeyLargo
You may not like Flo but the brilliance of those ads is the very reason you're posting a thread about them.

In the end, consumers may not like Flo (she isn't real anyway)...but they sure as h$ll have heard about Progressive and its products.

The brilliance of Flo and the Geico lizard is they generate HUGE name recognition and that converts to big sales volume, and that permits them to cut their rates. And they do.

And then Flo and the Geico lizard tell you about those lower rates...and generate even more volume.

BTW, when I first saw the ads I hated Flo. But after a while, because the ads so beautifully walk that fine line between being almost too unattractive and not quite so (all by design), she began to grow on me.

I still find her obnoxious but appreciate the fact that Progressive's ad firm pushed the envelope (and Progressive had the guts to go along).

59 posted on 06/11/2010 12:06:55 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself...)
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To: KeyLargo

“Flo” was hired to sell insurance. Like her or not, she got all of our attention, didn’t she. But the whole story line is getting old.


60 posted on 06/11/2010 12:07:25 PM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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