Sun, 22 Feb 2004 03:43:02
When was the last time you saw a beer commercial for kids?
Well...after the freaking bloodbath my last post turned into, I figured let’s laugh at something we can all agree is stupid.
Both Milwaukee-based Miller and St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch have said the suit is without merit. While both companies are reluctant to comment on the suit’s specific claims, Miller spokesman Mike Hennick said the brewer’s ad campaigns and sales practices are aimed at people who are 21 and older.
“We simply do not market to kids,” Hennick said.
Holy crap on a stick this is stupid. It’s not like they run beer ads during the Teletubbies and Sesame Street sidebar: are the Teletubbies even still on?).
But low and behold, it;s some of the same bottom-feeders that screwed the tobacco companies. That’s right, I said screwed the Big Tobacco. After all, it;s not like the Marlboro Man came into my bedroom and night and shoved cigarrettes in my face...I knew they caused cancer before I knew what cancer was. Anyone who started smoking in the last 30 years knew the risks.
Now we’re going to start in on beer? Because they market it to kids? What the *hell*? Spuds McKenzie was like, 15 years ago, and he was the last kid-friendly thing I ever saw a beer company do.
Posted by JimK at 03:43 AM on February 22, 2004
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#2 Posted by jo-jo 
on 02/22 at 08:08 PM -
i personally am horrified by the Wiggles. truly frightened. even a little tweaked that i have some wiggles underwear in my kitchen, but they’re sealed in packages to be mailed to my niece ;)
#3 Posted by Sean Galbraith on 02/22 at 11:56 PM -
The Wiggles are proof that satan exists.
#4 Posted by Jim K. on 02/23 at 03:13 AM -
So I saw the boohbah things.\r
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HOLY WHAT THE. Acid. That’s the only explanation I can think of. LSD.
#5 Posted by Janna on 02/23 at 06:48 AM -
How can ya’ll not like the Wiggles?\r
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They are the perfect thing to keep my two year old occupied while Mommy naps on the couch.\r
I am not sure though what is more sad...that my two year old goes around singing all the songs, or that Mommy helps him get the lyrics right.\r
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But take all the evils in the world...Teletubbies, barney and the Wiggles...I’m sorry but I take the Wiggles any day!\r
#6 Posted by ChumBucket on 02/24 at 06:37 AM -
Your gonna love the wiggles when they say through the television “Alright mommies asleep, now go get the kitchen knife and plunge it into the house pets”
#7 Posted by kyote 
on 02/26 at 01:07 AM -
Hey, Commie, this is America. Advertising Rules. Don’t question what the big conglomerates want your children to think. They and Bush are always, always right. Right is Right.
#8 Posted by Sean Galbraith on 02/26 at 02:13 AM -
ChumBucket: HAHAHAHHAHAHA\r
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Jim K: Did you see the Boobah’s on Tough Crowd by chance?
#9 Posted by Janna on 02/28 at 08:08 PM -
your gonna love the wiggles when they say through the television “alright mommies asleep, now go het the kitchen knife and plunge it into the house pets”\r
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Well, see, now that is precisely why we don’t have any house pets!
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#1 Posted by Heinrich Walker
on 02/22 at 06:58 AM -
The Teletubbies have been usurped by the Boohbahs. If you have not yet seen the Boohbahs, they can be adequately described as the most terrifying things to ever blight God’s Green Earth.