Posted on 04/03/2008 8:15:21 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The NRA would repudiate your above, the GOA wouldn't, but what the hey, you are driven by emotions and not of thought, as are most gasbags.
Seriously. Your commitment is awe-inspiring.
So you would find the image threatening, right? In fact, probably both common sense and your emotions tell you this. Likewise Dane, this ad is threatening. By the way Dane, last I checked I had the freedom of speech, I can put whoever’s photo I want up at the range. Bad taste? Sure, but you see, no one can arrest or punish me for it. Eject me from the range, perhaps, but that’s a private decision.
Investors toast loss in Absolut bidding Fortune Brands' stock up after rival pays premium
By Mike Hughlett | Tribune reporter
April 1, 2008
Fortune Brands Inc. on Monday lost its bid to buy Sweden's Vin & Sprit AB, a deal that would have given it global rights to the coveted Absolut vodka brand. With its failure, Fortune will lose U.S. rights to distribute Absolut, representing a long-term hit to its liquor business.
(WHOO-HOOO)!! Yet investors couldn't have seemed happier Monday, rewarding Fortune's stock with its biggest one-day percentage gain in more than seven years. That's because they were relieved the Deerfield-based company didn't do what Wall Street feared most in the short-term: Pay too much for Vin & Sprit."
I'll drink to that!
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Cross another product off my list of possible purchases due to stupid liberal marketing. No ABSOLUT! ABSOLUTELY.
Yep bad taste, and bad marketing, and your 1st amendment right, even though it was based on you getting a temporary woody, with your fantasy of putting my picture up in a firing range.
Grey Goose makes a pear vodka. You might try it.
Japanese cars/vans/suvs have been higher in reliability and safety for a few decades now.
Perhaps the poster is of the WWII generation.
My wife’s grandfather would not ride in her Rav4 because it was a Toyota. He WOULD ride in our Lexus - didn’t know that it was also a Toyota.
Bad publicity is Geraldo Rivera giving away the position of our troops.
Bad publicity is Geraldo Rivera getting his nose broken by a bunch of inbred neo nazis.
Bad publicity is Geraldo Rivera writing a book about all the women he's bedded.
Oh he may still get work but no one takes him or his opinion seriously anymore.
Don’t you think that maybe Absolut is being stupid by creating that ad? Also, what about those Mexicans who know English? What would their opinions be on that?
What ROT!!
Kruschev and his successors were about keeping people IN, not OUT. Not, of course, that niggling little things like "reality" and "truth" actually matter to you...
What, between the Russians and the US? The Russians are the trouble makers here. This is some small payback for the Ukraine and Georgia.
Not The Glenlivet!!!
I was a liter a day kinda guy for over twenty five years and vodka was my favorite tipple. Just how much can you do with alcohol mixed with water? If the alcohol is made from potatos (starch) or grain they are all pretty much alike. About ten fifteen year ago some bright Wisconsin lad thought of fermenting whey, which contains a lot of milk sugar (lactose). Since whey is a byproduct of making cheese we had plenty and more to spare. It was usually used to slop hogs as the cheese factories gave it away free for the hauling.
He got alcohol alright, and it even passed the taste test so several "el-cheepo" brands were launched. About thirty seconds after the first swallow hit bottom the fumes rising in your throat suggested a bouquet not unlike a freshly opened septic tank. Within a couple of months the hogs were again getting free whey.
I successfully retired as a professional drunk about four and a half years ago so this is a short trip down memory lane for me.
Regards,
GtG
The profits do return here and are taxed at outrageous corporate rates.
Of course that has nothing to do with what I was talking about.
Are trying to justify your purchasing habits with me, there is no need, I’m not your judge and frankly I don’t care that much.It’s your money, spend it how you want.
Personally I prefer to buy from American companies that make their products in America. Unfortunately, I don’t always have that opportunity now.
As for buying from an American company producing their product overseas versus a foreign company assembling their product here, that is a tough call.
As the old saying goes, "there is no such thing as bad publicity", and you all have proven it.
I wouldn't be surprised if michelle malkin is getting a kickback from Absolut.
I believe that you believe this.
“you getting a temporary woody”
Dane gives me a `chubby’ too!
On the day that Dane was born, the angels got together,
and decided to create a dream come true!
So they sprinkled stardust in her hair
and something something and so on and so on...
That is why, all the cholos in town, follow her all around,
Just like me, ellos long to be, close to Dane.
Absolut sucks compared to Skyy anyway.
“Personally I prefer to buy from American companies that make their products in America..”
Now, you’ll mess up the NEW economy doing that! Buy that junk at the $ store for a buck where some peasant got 1 cent for making it. BUT, it’s really worth much more......at least 2 or 3 dollars BECAUSE we subsidize those cheap imports with billion dollar xray machines at ports (that don’t work) billions more to port patrol agents. Rudeboy doesn’t like you to think about the fact that YOUR tax dollars are paying for all that cheap junk in everyones homes that NONE of us need in the first place. Go spend $5.00 for a USA made product instead of $1 at the China import centers and you’d probably save the taxpayer money.
This import biz the ‘free’ traders are so proud of isn’t so cheap afterall. But they love you subsidizing their profit!
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