Thursday, July 19, 2007

Don't be surprised

I don't understand the people in all these commercials who still get surprised when they encounter an inanimate object equipped with the ability to speak. It's like, here is this guy, supposedly living in the twenty first century and yet, when his bedroom heater speaks to him in a sensual feminine voice (turns out that bedroom heaters are female), asking him to use her more often, he is like, "hey girl, how come you can speak", and "but you're a heater, heaters can't speak", and then, continuing in the same vein, "but you don't have a biological larynx like me, how is it that you can speak", until you feel like telling him, hey buddy, are you ever gonna let her get to her sales pitch? Are you? For God's sakes man, keep up with the times. Everybody knows that in the world of commercials, heaters and bedroom furniture and coffee mugs and even parts of your own body (except your mouth, which could already speak), have long since developed the capacity for intelligent conversation and impeccable social etiquette.

So act like a goddamned professional. Don't keep wasting the first two minutes of every commercial acting all amazed and requesting elaborate explanations from the kitchen faucet on the hows and whys of his ability to sermonize. Instead, get out more often. Watch more commercials. Do your homework on your own time and quit wasting ours with your unpreparedness when the rest of us just want to know what it is that the faucet has on his mind.

6 comments:

zambezi said...

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gawker said...

Did you change jobs or something?

zambezi said...

no am in santa clara on a conference and going back in some time. i bought the t mobile hotspot connection and hence you felt that i got a new job.

gawker said...

Thank you. I appreciate the explanation provided.

RobRoy said...

Ahhh, talking things. The Parkay tub that argued vehemently of being butter, and then turning the tables when the argument succeeded and insisted it was just modest margarine.

False advertising at its finest.

Oracle said...

damn , my sides have ached laughing at some of your posts. They are damn funny :o