[birbear]

I can't stand the latest batch. I have a hard time understanding anything with that absymall accent.

I will admit, the ones with the cavemen are kinda funny.

But they try so hard to be "entertaining" with their commercials, that I wonder how their service would be if I ever need to file a claim. Frankly, if I ever need to file a claim, I want some actuary guy with a slide rule and a pocket protector telling me how much I'm going to get, rather than have some stupid lizard trying to do a song and dance, giving me free pie and chips.

And what the hell is/are "pie and chips"?

[George from New England]

I was hit by a driver that had Geico.

I have to say they paid $4500 for my car repairs, check was here before work was finished.

On a rental, I got Geico to give me more than my own insurance company would have provided. 3 weeks at that too.

[headstamp]

Well, so far I had a towing job for my truck and didn't call Gieco for an approved towing operator, called a local guy instead.

Called Geico about it and they said, no problem just send us a copy of the towing bill and we'll send you out a check right away.

Week and a half later had the check for $85 in my hand.

All contact done through the Internet also BTW.

So far so good.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

Frankly, if I ever need to file a claim, I want some actuary guy with a slide rule and a pocket protector telling me how much I'm going to get, rather than have some stupid lizard trying to do a song and dance, giving me free pie and chips.

C'mon, bear. Put the bong away. Do you actually think when you go to a GEICO claims office, there's a gekko serving pie and chips? They have the requisite number of geeks with slide rules, just like any other insurer.

[Buddy B]

"And what the hell is/are "pie and chips"?"

I think you could find them in cow pasture.

[Beagle8U]

"And what the hell is/are "pie and chips"?"

You know, its like pie, and chips.

I guess that means a moldy chocolate pie and stale dill pickle potato chips to dip in it ?

My guess would be that its a British thing, Steak and kidney pie, and their chips are like our freedom fries.

[Tamar1973]

I think the little gecko is cute, even with the Aussie accent. He's all that and a bag of chips (aka freedom fries).

[billbears]

Well you see you can get free pie and free chips anywhere but you can't get..well you know the rest,LOL. I find the new ads a lot catchier than the ones they had before And I have looked into changing insurance to them

[southernnorthcarolina]

And what the hell is/are "pie and chips"?

Beagle has it right. Pie and chips is typical British pub food, the pie being a meat or fish pie -- steak and kidney, or chicken and mushroom, or lamb, or for real Cockneys (the working-class East Londoners the Gecko's accent mimics), eel pie. "Chips" are the British term for fries.

Pie and chips, with a slightly-below-room-temperature pint of ale or two, while not fine cuisine, can be tasty, and certainly filling. I'll pass on the eel pie, however.

[Wilhelm Tell]

I think their caveman commercials are great. That was a very clever idea and they could probably go on for years with material for caveman commercials and most of it would be funny (which means people would remember the commercials and the product they are trying to sell). I imagine that the caveman commercials aren't too expensive to make as far as commercials go. No animation or stunts -- just regular settings with two guys wearing caveman makeup.

I know insurance companies use credit ratings to help determing someone's insurance rate. The theory if you are high-risk about money then you may be high-risk about safety. It does not shock me that they would consider education or income. The leftists always want responsible people to pay for the mistakes of the irresponsible.

[308MBR]

That is Kidney/Shepherd's pie (like a chicken pot pie, but with bovine/ovine entrails as the main ingredients), and the chips are french fries.

I'm goint to (attempt to) start my Lotus Esprit now.