I caught a cold. It’s not a bad one, but I’ve got the whole post-nasal-drip, no energy, low appetite thing going on. Oh, and I had to drive 3 hours to Pocatello in order to get the family out of town for Sandra’s birthday.
I crashed on a spare bed upon arrival (crashed me, not the minivan) and then went out to buy some diet soda and Vitamin C, so I could properly medicate myself for the weekend. Ahh, the magic of caffeine and ascorbic acid… two great tastes that fool me into thinking I’m not sick while my body works overtime fighting the yuck.
Speaking of yuck… I assume you’ve all seen Orville Necro-Redenbacher in his new commercial. No? Well, it’s frightening. They computer animated a new, hipper Orville so that the real popcorn magnate could remain in the grave without impacting the company’s bottom line.
And that raises the following question: which dead corporate icon is next? Me, I think Dave Thomas might be the next candidate for a return frome the grave, and I just hope Wendy’s can be convinced by Necro-Orville’s frightening demeanor that bringing Dave back from the dead would be a bad idea.
Ronald Reagan, however… they can bring him back. In fact, if you payed attention during Back to the Future you know that sometime before 2015 they WILL. They need to get started on the rest of those Jaws sequels, though.
Oh, they’ll use the base Orville model and flesh it out, bang, instant KFC Colonel Sanders.
Actually, the Kentucky Colonel was animated, already. His body wasn’t reanimated, his image was just regular animated.
Ya, that thing was pretty scary.
i guess they figured it was cheaper
than asking one of Orville’s descendants to dress up like Dad (or Grandpa) and be in the commercial.
(One of the grandkids, Gary Redenbacher, has been representing a group of which I’m a part in a lawsuit. You put him up against a photo of his grandpa and there’s no doubt they’re related. Apparently Gary was in one of the popcorn ads in the early ’70s as a teenager.)
I have found that caffeine of any kind kills any cold medication I can take.
That’s….. Disturbing.
At least the Old Navy spokesperson is gone. ::ducks and runs away::
I seem to recall that after Dave Thomas died, the spokespersons for Wendy’s emphatically promised never to use his image. Or something along those lines.
Not that I ever expect any promises to be kept, but STILL.
What with CGI and all that, I’m actually rather surprised nobody’s tried to buy the liscence for more Jaws sequels.
Now that’s…. just plain creepy.
That commercial is really uncomfortable to look at. They did it better when they brought back John Wayne and Fred Astaire some years back.
Ronald Reagan, however… they can bring him back.
Willis is way ahead of you, you know.
Jaws
They will also need to re-animate Peter Benchly, the original author of Jaws,” to get his permission since he died about 8 months ago. And based on the obituary which was published in the National Geographic back then (no I don’t have a photographic memory, I’ve just been trying to get through a 5 year back log of the yellow beasts, so they can be moved to off site storage……) I tend to wonder if he would give it. Seems he became quite a conservationist in his later years.
Jim