[JZelle]

"...decency is a snigger word."

Careful now!!

[misterrob]

Those are great ads!!!!

Mr. Way To Much Cologne Wearer
Mr. Silent But Deadly
Mr. Way Too Small Bathing Suit Wearer

Mona is an old hag....

[TexasCajun]

Have you been to your local mall lately?

You can see and hear things that just make you shake your head and wonder who raised this kids?

[trubluolyguy]

Our ad writers bulldoze right past it into crudeness.

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Yet another reason that the remote is one of man's greatest inventions. She whines about the ad, but did she turn the channel?

[colorado tanker]

That flu bug must've knocked out her sense of humor.

(signed) Mr. Vulgar Bud Light Real Men of Genius Commercial Listener.

[Just another Joe]

In my opinion subtle, that takes about three seconds to hit you, is better than in your face.

Indelicate means that they smack you in your face rather than tickling your fancy.

[Killborn]

To those who think "just change the channel",

There may be a time when hardcore porn is schedule at children's time slots for purposes of "education."

And you were not fast enough to change when your little one stumbled upon it.

I'm not suggesting blue laws or censorship. But something has to be done. Merely relying on the free markets and the conscience of the people may be insufficient.

[LexBaird]

You don't sell much beer appealing to delicate sensibilities. You sell beer by appealing to Animal House sensabilities.

[RyanM]

I have three children and fortunately the only way to receive television where I live is by cable. For the last nine years we have not subscribed and we have not had ANY "TV" for that period of time. Haven't missed it a bit. We have a very nice flat panel by which we view DVDs, but that's it. We do have a
good broadband connection.

You CAN live very nicely without TV. Why let yourself be corroded by all of that ****. I encourage you to give it a try.

[ozzymandus]

Mona needs to get out more.

[Savage Beast]

If I get together with a few buddies over beer and a campfire, I might talk like this--probably will, in fact--but I find the vulgarization of society disgusting.

I never heard my father use vulgar language--my father or my mother.

And my children have never heard me talk that way. They never will.

[manwiththehands]

Oops. Hooters crowd. Wrong room.

[Exeter]

If Ms. Charen is upset about vulgarity in the Bud Lite commercials, wait till she sees the animated bears in the Charmin bathroom tissue commercials. And don't even get me started on the Victoria's Secret ads. These have been known to shut down the noisiest Thursday night poker game instantly...

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Many of the "Real Men of Genius" ads are very clever and funny. Some are vulgar and are not even subtle about it.

The shampoo ad I find embarrassing even when I'm watching TV alone, much less when I'm with the wife and kids. (Although I do recall the wife sort of giggling at that one the last time we saw it.) I've never had any kind of sensation from a shampoo, although a friend of mine tells me that one version of Head and Shoulders makes his head feel as if it were covered in ice.

I haven't seen the Hardee's Paris Hilton ad, but we don't have Hardee's here. I did find it on a google search, but the way it's described, it's probably not something I want to view here at work.

I thought the Pepto ad was kind of funny, although I can usually can do without explicit references to vomiting and excretory functions. We all know what Pepto is for. But, of the ads Mona mentioned, this one is at least about the product it is advertising. How are the other ads really about the merits of Bud Light or Herbal Essence?

One thing she didn't mention was the evolution of toilet paper ads. Back in the day, we had ads with Mr. Whipple imploring his customers not to squeeze the Charmin. "But it's so squeeably soft" replied the customers, and they proved it by brushing a few squares against a cheek. Well, any toilet roll all rolled up is going to be soft, even the dreaded Scott one-ply, and we all knew that the cheek on which Charmin's softness was demonstrated was not the cheek on which it was actually used. Not even close. But, just in case we didn't get it, the toilet paper companies have decided to become more explicit with their ads. So one of them has an ad that is obviously a take-off of the old expression, "Does a bear s**t in the woods?" and another has people wiggling their clean, fragrant and happy backsides, which are clean, fragrant and happy due to the use of a certain toilet paper.

I hate to imagine what is coming next.

[far sider]

Mona's right. I like the real men of genius stuff but the one she quotes is just trashy and stupid.

[Bella_Bru]

Mr. Fancy Coffee Shop Coffee Pourer was hysterical. Here is a list to listen to some of them.

[mysterio]

Those ads are funny. I think the power that prudes have attained is more dangerous than a banana joke.

[Xenalyte]

I can't believe Mona wrote an entire column without using the word "tendentious."