Cracker: I don't just read the newspaper. I get it.
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Fark. How does that youtube embedding work again?
You were almost there, but you've got to include the 'http"-colon-double-forward slash as well.
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her we go then, 2,3,4:
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hmm, still not embedded in the cunning way those chav vids were...
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Feh... last time I try and get my geek on. Sorry, Don.
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And my kkids love the gorilla playing the drums ad for cadbury. Whoever came up with that is a blingin' genius.
I can't for the life of me work out the appeal, but it's the coolest ad I've seen in years.
& youtube: I think the secret is to include the http and the www.
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(dances) I am SO relieved that worked.
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Don... for some reason it also needs the www (as in http://www.etc.etc so lessee if I'm right:
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Voila! A neatly embedded blank space.
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Tries again without orphaned quote
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Gives up to go read kiwiblog or something.
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The YouTube embedding trick is like a secret PA System thing, even though I'm sure it's not meant to be. There are no instructions and it's not obvious what to do.
It's something that only regulars know how to do. Should we keep it like this or should this tip be shared?
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I can't for the life of me work out the appeal, but it's the coolest ad I've seen in years.
And it's for chocolate? Go figure.
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What I find a bit odd, Mr Developer, is that one can embed a youtube but not an image. I think images in comments (ala LiveJournal) make a site more interesting.
Or is it the slippery slope to MySpaceness (spiritual home of the <BLINK>) tag)?
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I like it too. I think it's to do with the emotion that the gorilla conveys, which is humanlike in its breathing and blinking and stretching, but also gorilla-like in that little snarl it does at the camera in its face. It owes something to King Kong.
And the unexpectedness of the drums in what you think might be a save the animals charity kind of ad is brilliant.
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Ok, that worked well. Silverstripe now owe me big time for countless postings of their video on PA. Actually, they probably owe Russell for the PIs ...
By the way, I do dislike systems that force the www prefix on you. PA cookies are weak in this respect. </meaningless gripe>
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What confuses the Telecom matter more is the previous campaign(s) they've had featuring real people -- the families etc on the couch, talking about how they use telco services. (I believe) those were unscripted, improvised, real conversations (which Telecom still use on big hoardings up at Wellington Airport).
Not so sure about the Clever Toys campaign. The lion seems pretty laid back but surely the rabbit is talent? It's tough to tell nowadays.
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Waaay back someone mentioned something about the UOA using actual students for their advertising.
The University of Otago 'Get Over It' campaign features _mostly_ real students. Some of them aren't actually students, but were working at the students association at the time.
The stupid one with the Vice Chancellor was the real VC, thankfully he's gone now, and not just because of the bad advert.
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3410,
I hate that Gorilla ad. What kind of moron pays many tens of thousands for In the Air Tonight and then puts the key drum fill in the wrong place?
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(I believe) those were unscripted, improvised, real conversations (which Telecom still use on big hoardings up at Wellington Airport).
Will you believe that of any future similar campaigns? Way to ruin your brand.
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The stupid one with the Vice Chancellor was the real VC, thankfully he's gone now, and not just because of the bad advert.
You can have ours. We don't want him, honest. I don't think even the staff want him, and the students definitely don't. In less than the length of a basic undergraduate degree he's managed to make himself roughly as popular as a pork pie at a Jewish wedding.
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You can have ours. We don't want him, honest. I don't think even the staff want him, and the students definitely don't. In less than the length of a basic undergraduate degree he's managed to make himself roughly as popular as a pork pie at a Jewish wedding.
No we'll keep our new one thanks. Last pay round every other university was on strike trying to get the same percentage that we got offered first-up. He's come up through the ranks and is well liked.
And on about day two he got rid of that stupid bridge that they wanted to build over the Leith here. About five years of my life arguing against that thing.
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I like it too. I think it's to do with the emotion that the gorilla conveys, which is humanlike in its breathing and blinking and stretching, but also gorilla-like in that little snarl it does at the camera in its face. It owes something to King Kong.
It's not actually a gorilla, though, is it. ;))
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He's not a gorilla, he's the representation of a black man.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/12/20/171052.php
As for f#cken Ph!l C@llins - ahh aaa ah aaaa ahhh (or wot ever Tazan says)
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Humourless politically-correct cultural revisionism is almost a sub-genre of comedy in its own right, huh.
If King Kong is a black guy, then the Cadbury gorilla might be Buddy Miles -- whoever it is, they sure know how to play some rock drums.
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What kind of moron pays many tens of thousands for In the Air Tonight and then puts the key drum fill in the wrong place?
The sort of moron who:
a) has only got 30 seconds to play with
b) wants to get to the end of a Phil Collins song as quickly as possible
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