Campbell's Soup Commercial-Thanks Readers!

A little over seven months ago, I wrote a post about a Campbell's Soup commercial. It involved a lot of slurping, silly behavior, and "Num Yummy." Anyway, that particular post has been very interesting to follow. It happens to be the most commented on of all my posts. Some of the people who commented think the commercial is funny and told me not to take it so seriously. Some people took the opportunity to use my post to vent and call me terrible things--talk about taking things too seriously! As in all things there are opinions that agreed with what I wrote and lots that didn't. The original post was written on October 15, 2008. I suppose I was bored and had had the television on way too long. I wrote the blog as a lark, not really thinking it would amount to much. After all, who really reads the rantings of a housewife? As it turns out, that post happens to be the most interesting thing I have written.
I really don't care that much about the commercial, but the blog I wrote has really been a springboard for me. Regardless of your opinions about the commercial or me personally (none of you actually know me, so I didn't quite understand the nasty tone of some of the comments) the writing of that post has proven to me that people actually do read the rantings of a bored housewife, and that is cool with me! Thanks for reading and commenting, and I will keep blogging away. Num Yummy!

Very Strange Chevy Traverse Commercial

Okay, so you know I have been watching the Olympics since August 8th, and over the course of the last ten days or so, there have been many, many commercials shown. There are some that are clever and funny, some that are irritating, some that are stupid, and some, well you just have to scratch your head and say, "What in the world were they thinking?" One such commercial is the one for the new Chevrolet Traverse. It looks to me like it is a crossover vehicle that is being touted as "best in class" for fuel effieciency and passenger room. The commercial just has me befuddled because it shows this good looking guy ironing while he is talking on the telephone. You can hear him say "six months," still with that rather queer smile/smirk on his face. Then he tosses up the item he has been ironing and it looks like a little girl's dress. If that isn't weird enough, after all the blah, blah blah about this Traverse vehicle, the last shot is of this guy on his hands and knees scrubbing out a black toilet in what looks like a public restroom. I just don't get it. I have seen the darn thing countless times and have tried to study it to figure out what the ad is all about, but it just doesn't make any sense. My twelve year old might have been onto something when she said that maybe the guy was supposed to be the car, I don't know it just seems like the ad team that came up with this one was really struggling to get an idea and just went with this stupid thing. For me, it certainly does not make me want to even investigate the car. The commercial is just that creepy and weird. Sorry, Chevy, you really blundered on this one, and to top it all off, I think the car is kind of, well ugly, clunky looking and boring. Just take a look at it for yourself--PU!

Craving Doughnuts

This is weird, but it proves something that I always knew had a grain of truth in it, and that is that you always want what you can't have. In my case, I want doughnuts! Very strange, isn't it. I think the reason doughnuts have been on my mind a lot lately is that I have been seeing commercials for Dunkin Donuts, and of course, here in "Green Acres" there are no doughnuts to be had; not real doughnuts, anyway. Oh sure, I could go to the grocery store and get their bakery doughnuts (they rarely have a good variety, though) or get a bag or box of stale Krispy Kreme doughnuts that are trucked to the grocery store and sit on the shelf for who knows how long. I have bought Entemann's boxed doughnuts out of desperation, but they just aren't the same as picking out fresh, soft gems from behind a glass case at Dunkin Donuts. The closest store takes about 30 minutes to get to, so my family and I never have them, it's just too far to drive. A lifelong resident here in "Hicktown, USA" told me that once there was a Dunkin Donuts here--you can even see the outline of the letters on the front of the building where the store once was. The delicious and really-bad-for-you pastries were trucked in from the store in the next, more civilized town 20 miles away, but alas, "Hicktown" is anti-chain food, so the shop closed and all of us who would love to have a little treat now and then must go without. I will just have to make-do with watching the commercials and dreaming of the day when I sink my teeth into one of those yummy pillows of high calories and sugar!