Well it looks like the caveman has signed a deal with ABC making my attempt to copy and plagiarize GIECO’s advertising campaign moot. I wanted so badly to have the caveman tapping away at his keyboard, making fun of Robert Scoble, linkbaiting, Digging, and perhaps even signing up to work for clamshells at PayPerPost! How cool would it have been if he would have been like Loren Feldman on 1938 media talking about the latest in tech gadgets and testing blog platforms, all while rubbing elbows with the likes of Om Malik, and Dave Winer. He would have been perfect making a behind the scenes deal with Jason Calacanis starting the Caveman Blogging Network! His videodcast would be picked up by John Furrier and he would be interviewing 40 second spots (rather than a Scoble 40 minute taping) of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and the latest in celebrity gossip like Perez Hilton. He could write a great book like Jeremy Wright or Shel Israel or Debbie Weil. He would be a sought after keynote at all the cool conferences like Gnomedex, Blog Business Summit, and of course Blog World Expo. He would be sought after for his political opinions, like Instapundit, Little Green Footballs and Daily Kos.
Then I thought I might just get a variation of it and have it be "Blogging: So easy a lawyer can do it." Of course then I would probably be sued by litigious Mike Arrington, or I might offend for the second time people like Brian Clark. I was soon talked out of that as a result of not wanting to offend Cavemen everywhere.
Since it seems that I am losing out here on the real wave of "The Caveman", I have decided to do it myself and start my own campaign. Since I kind of took a beating yesterday after taking on Adobe, and since Dave Taylor believes my Bloggers For Hire operation to be similar to second class, I’m beginning the new campaign here:
"Blogging, so easy Jim Turner can do it."Â
Of course, you have my permission to actually let everyone know just how easy blogging is since nobody would possibly believe that I could actually do it successfully. TGIF!!
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We don’t have the ads where I am but the riff is neat. And I can imagine some people thinking, ok, why didn’t he have a shot at me? What am I, chopped liver?
Well I am not graduated to chop liver yet so I guess I will have to climb that mountain as well.
If the caveman blogged would he complain about missing links?
Oh Shel that’s baaadddd
That was one of the hilarious post i have ever read.Good analysis but.
This is sssoooo stupid!!!!! Who would think of somwthing as stupid as this!!!!!! Anywhoo, I don’t even like these commercials, or the one that has all of the old celebiitys… are they that desprate for a job? I like the old ones better. Anyways its very dumb!!!
Thank You,
Cavemen Hater
I’ll betcha “Cavemen Hater” is a woman…..OH! Duh……”Yo Mama”, undoubtedly a woman.
I heard somewhere that GIECO’S (advertising effectiveness) research found that women sampled in their focus groups LOVED the Aussie Lizard and HATED the Caveman. Men LOVED the Caveman and HATED the Lizard.
Anybody care to get into the Freudian implication of THAT?
So Gieco runs the two ads in tandem and gets the attention of 100% of the human race.
Thank you,
Lizard Lover
Jim – very funny ! Double ouch on Shel’s pun. http://www.ideafarms.com/products/sudoku.htm
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