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I thought some of you animal lovers would like to see a disturbing email that is going around. This is one of numerous links to the story and the actual Ford SportKa advertisement.
Warning: The video is graphic!!!!!
The animals were supposedly not harmed in these video clips. http://www.snopes.com/photos/commercials/sportka.asp


http://www.newsletters.newsweek.msnbc.com/id/4654169/
This is a quote from the above link.
"Animal protection groups attacked the "abhorrent" advert, which shows the ginger cat having its head cut off by the sunroof before its body slides down the bonnet.

The car maker said the advert was conceived as part of a "viral" campaign, where short videos are released on to the Internet and redistributed by e-mail, as people find them funny. But it insisted it was not meant to be developed. As an alternative, a clip showing a comedy pigeon being thwacked by the bonnet, had been chosen. That ad caused controversy among some pigeon fanciers and was also condemned by animal rights groups."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai.../main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/04/ncat04.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/04/04/ixhome.html
"Ford and Ogilvy & Mather, the advertising agency behind the advert, insist that the clip was never designed for public consumption.”

It is amazing what lengths Corporations will go to sell us their products. :mad:


Dan
 
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Com'on Chris, you don't really think they cut the head off of a cat do you? That cat was no more real than the AFLAC duck talking with a toothpick in its beak!

When I say it is funny, I am speaking in terms of the creativity and technical expertise it took to make the ad. It was indeed very funny from that view!

Aside from all of that. I venture to say there is not a person alive who has come out to their vehicle to find cat prints all over the hood, windshield or roof who didn't think the same of the cat as the ad portrayed. It is that thinking the ad was crated and makes it entertaining.

:saw:
 
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1boatnut said:
Ok,now wait a minute. Now your gonna tell me the Ducks not real??
What next ? Santa Clause...Easter Bunny,and my all time favorite,the tooth Fairy ;)
Damn you ghart,,,,say it isn't so..
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Ducks are certainly real! Trust me, I have enough Duck Chit on my pier to be keenly aware of their presents here on earth.

What I mean is the duck in the AFLAC commercial is not real. It is a computer generated character, just like the cat and the pigeon in the Ford commercials.

You did know that didn't you? Please don't tell me you thought the AFLAC Duck was some highly trained duck!
 
#8 ·
f311 said:
still don't think its funny. I laugh like a ******* when I see a child getting beat by its parent in a mall, doesn't mean anyone else does. :cl6: to each their own.
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I hope you said that in jest!
 
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hammereab said:
(.) (.)'s (.) (.)'s (.) (.)'s (.) (.)'s
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We really do need another icon to express ourselves like the one we lost due to inappropriate mind interpretation of the message put forth by the previous and sometimes yielding ill feelings toward some members of the group.

(*)(*), I still think this way is better than (.)(.)

but nothing like the one we lost due to inappropriate mind interpretation of the message put forth by the previous and sometimes yielding ill feelings toward some members of the group.

:sb:
 
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ghart said:
We really do need another icon to express ourselves like the one we lost due to inappropriate mind interpretation of the message put forth by the previous and sometimes yielding ill feelings toward some members of the group.

(*)(*), I still think this way is better than (.)(.)

but nothing like the one we lost due to inappropriate mind interpretation of the message put forth by the previous and sometimes yielding ill feelings toward some members of the group.

:sb:
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I think that I might agree with whatever ghart said, whatever that was..........................

"WE" demand a replacement icon!!!! I think???? Pleeeeeeaaaaasssseeeeee???????

Maybe?
 
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I'm no animal hater and found it to be amusing.
Yes I've had cats walk all over my clean car along with birds crapping all over it also. I liked the pigeon one the best.

It's a commercial and not reality so I thought it was creative. I like the new Geico commercials where the dogs are all checking out the Gecko riding in the passenger seat of the car.

When are they going to do one with a dog that jumps all over the side of the car and scratches the hell out of it.

Cordell
 
Discussion starter · #19 ·
I guess I need to find a sense of humor. :p: :D I still think it was in poor taste. I was surprised to receive an Email from Ford apologizing for it's release. On that note I'll leave this OT stuff to someone else. Back to boating!
Dan
 

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