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What's Your Worst Talk-Radio PSA Announcement? - Weekend Vanity
May 17, 2014 | dagogo redux

Posted on 05/18/2014 8:32:26 AM PDT by dagogo redux

For all you talk radio fans, driven nuts by the Kars-4-Kids, anti-bullying, starving kids, etc etc etc PSA ads: what are your least favorite, most hated of these sadistic brain-assaults?


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KEYWORDS: abuse; ads; diabolical; psa; talkradio
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To: A_Former_Democrat

LOL…”light in the loafers” - been a while since I’ve heard that one….and let’s not forget, before that, it was “he’s a confirmed batchelor”


41 posted on 05/18/2014 9:59:50 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: dagogo redux

My vote for the worst commercial of all time, PSA or not, was a PSA venereal disease commercial from the late 1960’s. It featured the song “VD is for Everybody”. Some kids thought that they could be cool or beautiful if they could get this VD thing, whatever it was. The commercial seemed to almost imply that you could be walking down the street one day and “Whammo” you get VD.

Here are the lyrics:

VD — is for everybody.
Not just for the few.
Anyone can share VD
With someone nice as you.
VD — is for everybody.
Darlin’ have no doubt.
That anyone can get VD.
That’s what it’s all about.

Honorable mention for worst commercial of all time goes to an early 1970’s Kroger Christmas commercial. Kids all dressed up in red and green holding candles and singing, “’Tis the season to be sharing. Let’s go Krogering, for the best of everything.” I didn’t go Krogering for a long, long time after that.


42 posted on 05/18/2014 10:01:24 AM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands (Conservative 2016!! The Dole, H.W. Bush, McCain, Romney experiment has failed.)
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To: BerryDingle
Dee-Eye-N-oh-Vee-eye-tee-ee.

Oooh! This one nailed it! I'm a dog lover, but the LAST thing I want to hear about is some dog's mangy, smelly sores or ear discharge!

43 posted on 05/18/2014 10:05:42 AM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: dagogo redux

I wish I could remember the name of the group/organization promoting it, but for me it’s the one with the woman showing the guy how to use the internet to search for jobs. When he says, “Those are all for ME?” he sounds positively mentally retarded.


44 posted on 05/18/2014 10:11:52 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: dagogo redux

The anti-smoking ones are the worst. As a former smoker, none of them worked on me as I was convinced that I didn’t smoke that much.


45 posted on 05/18/2014 10:23:40 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: dfwgator

YES!!!! That one...and the woman with the bratty kid...with her whiny voice, I’d slam the door too. Oh, and kars 4 kids.


46 posted on 05/18/2014 10:31:28 AM PDT by Conservative4Ever (waiting for my Magic 8 ball to give me an answer)
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To: GraceG

I gotta hand it to George Takei... He is comfortable spoofing on himself and acknowledging how Howard Stern made something of this whole “Oh, my!” soundbite.


47 posted on 05/18/2014 10:33:06 AM PDT by Rodamala (HORY MORY! IT'S GOJIRA! RUN FOR YOUR RIVES!)
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To: MD Expat in PA

Non-24 ads are on TV-—I’ve seen them several times.

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48 posted on 05/18/2014 10:33:33 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Flick Lives

Same here, turn off radio when Kars for Kids jingle starts.


49 posted on 05/18/2014 10:36:12 AM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: dagogo redux

Almost anything from Ad Council is progressive social engineering


50 posted on 05/18/2014 10:37:18 AM PDT by wardaddy (we will not take back our way of life through peaceful means.....i have 5 kids....i fear for them)
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To: dagogo redux
Can I nominate all of them? Sheesh...

What really annoys me is the hand of Big Brother in this. Why do radio stations run them? Is this part of retaining their operating license? Ingratiating themselves with the regime? A combination? Are they trying to drive us insane?

51 posted on 05/18/2014 10:41:29 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: dagogo redux

Smokey Da Bear telling the kid.. “9 out 10 Forest fires are started by humans” (lie)....and 7 & 8 year olds exclaiming they wanna be “a skyscraper”, and every other kind of nonsensical in-animate object but “not garbage” (polution ad). Phrased that way because the “bureaucrats” don’t want to offend anybody; police, fireman, etc.


52 posted on 05/18/2014 10:47:07 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I do know they are required, although I don’t know if stations other than conservative talk-shows are required to run them, or so many of them.

Who decides what a worthy cause is, and why there are no conservative ones that I know of is beyond me.

More to the point, is there any mechanism to change the policy? Given that no conservative is going to be swayed by these things, I think their only purpose must be harassment.


53 posted on 05/18/2014 10:52:19 AM PDT by dagogo redux
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To: dagogo redux

You all may think I’m crazy, but I like the Cars 4 Kids.


54 posted on 05/18/2014 11:55:30 AM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: dagogo redux

:-) yes, that’s it.


55 posted on 05/18/2014 12:09:28 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: BenLurkin

Oh LOL!!!!


56 posted on 05/18/2014 12:12:49 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: dagogo redux
The Amber Alert spot where it's always an African-American child abducted by a White male.

C'mon, people, mix it up a little.

57 posted on 05/18/2014 12:19:45 PM PDT by x
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To: dagogo redux

The one where the kids are talking about global warming and how carbon credits can help offset the effects of global warming.

Little do the kids know they are being used as pawns in a larger game.


58 posted on 05/18/2014 12:21:32 PM PDT by Redcitizen (When a zombie apocalypse starts, Chuck Norris doesn't try to survive. The zombies do.)
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To: Redcitizen

I think you may be jumping to conclusions there: I doubt liberals would purposefully use kids in that way.

/sarc


59 posted on 05/18/2014 12:24:32 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: murron

I can’t speak for others, but yes, I do think think you are crazy for liking that. :)


60 posted on 05/18/2014 12:26:02 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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