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Cucullan

Anyone know anything about the ad on page 15 of this months PCLive of an old woman spending all her money because she's sick of her family fighting over it before she dies???

In_Diana_Jones

Good plan!!

Big Ears

theres been threads about this before .(just pointing it out )

Interceptor

Hey old dear in the magazine ads, if you are reading this take my advice and stop putting ads in magazines. You should blow your dosh on booze, coke and strippers - I have a fast car and can be at your house in a half hour. I'll bring me bong...

'ceptr

munkeehaven

yeah she was in the medical times aswell....nearly every magazine...

flogen

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=170811&highlight=bernie

as you can see, this has been discussed before, and as eth0 pointed out, its just some companies ad campaign... who is unknown just yet, but I'm sure next month will have a follow up, or something.

flogen

Cucullan

Originally posted by interceptor
Hey old dear in the magazine ads, if you are reading this take my advice and stop putting ads in magazines. You should blow your dosh on booze, coke and strippers - I have a fast car and can be at your house in a half hour. I'll bring me bong...

'ceptr

LOL

ethO_ posted this last time this was discussed, he emailed In Dublin and got this reply
That was quick! Just got this from In Dublin:

Hi Joanne,
Thanks for your interest – you wouldn’t BELIEVE the interest we’ve had in Bernie!
She’s not real, and she is part of an ad campaign but we haven’t got a clue where it’s coming from. It’s a teaser campaign – it’s going somewhere, but we don’t have a clue where!
Thanks a million
Ciara

So looks like she's not for real Interceptor, hope this doesn't ruin your plans

beer enigma

There's no troll like and old troll !

Tenshot

It's apparently an ad for ... the power of advertising. Really:

http://www.ppa.ie/newsletter.html#bernie

rymus

Bugger.... I thought it would be an ad promoting the early detection and possible treatment of Alzheimers disease. Poor old Bernie indeed.

Interceptor

Dang, blarst and phlip!! I shined up me wellies and bought her a telly bingo card - I'll just have to play it meself now. Does anyone else think Shirley Temple-Bar is hot? No? Me neither...

'ceptr

dahamsta

Originally posted by Tenshot
It's apparently an ad for ... the power of advertising. Really:

http://www.ppa.ie/newsletter.html#bernie

"Most readers offered their support for Bernie"

Twits.

"some offered gifts"

Twits.

"and others simply wanted to know more."

Twits.

No offense intended eth0_. But of course by calling you've encouraged a whole microcosm of twits: twits that make advertisments for twits (The Redbreasted Twit), twits that want to sell their tat to twits (Corporatus Assholicus), and of course the lowest common denominator twits (The Common-or-Garden Mark).

adam

alleepally

Originally posted by dahamsta
Twits.

Twits.

Twits.

Saw the ad and it was intriguing. I don't know of any person who wouldn't want to know more about it really. You could hardly call someone a twit for wanting to know more if they did not know it was a fictional character.

dahamsta

Any twit could see it was a campaign/scam. Except those twits obviously.

adam

Big Ears

Originally posted by alleepally
Saw the ad and it was intriguing. I don't know of any person who wouldn't want to know more about it really. You could hardly call someone a twit for wanting to know more if they did not know it was a fictional character.

well he alreay did .

alleepally

Although the ad itself got people talking I don't think it proved anything in terms of magazine advertising being effective.

flogen

these kind of 'mystery ads' alway get interest, where people are left guessing what the product is... but most other ads are skimmed over by most people.

its similar to the subserviant chicken campaign too..

flogen

Interceptor

Research by many companies has shown that 'teaser' campaigns raise large amounts of public interest, often generating broad media attention, but retention of the brand & message is always low. The only people who use teaser campaigns anymore are advertising agencies/promoters and media sales companies such as in this case. You shouldn't take anything you read too seriously.

'ceptr

gonker

The big "advertisement" sign over the pic gave it away really
Do you remember years ago the "Big Ed loves Mona" campaign I was a kid at the time and there were bill boards all over the place with Big Ed loves Mona written on them and on ads on the telly....It held peoples imagination there was even one story that it was a gangster called big ed (who seemingly really existed) and he was proposing to his girlfriend Mona (who also existed)in this flamboyant way......unfortunately .... the truth came out and it was about someone called big ed fictional ad character who loved Mona yogurt It worked though
gonk

Pigman II

Shows at least we've come some distance as a species in relation to our immunity to advertising.

Anyone remember the ominous 'February 13th' campaign from (I think?) 1989. People actually thought the world was gonna end or they'd annouce a cure for cancer or something when the date finally came round.

Now it's just a case of'Crazy old woman given away money, eh? So what!'

Lenny

lol, seems funny