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November 20, 2008

Is it Just Me???

Filed under: Miscellaneous — admin @ 5:19 am

Or do the Christmas ads seem like they’re coming MUCH earlier this year?

I seem to recall in years past that the Christmas stuff didn’t show up until after Thanksgiving. We’re still a week away from Thanksgiving and some places have been advertising Christmas sales for over a week now. I guess they want to try and make some kind of profit.

My Christmas season pet peeve: Advertisements that use Christmas carol music as their jingle music, but they put different words to the music… like the Garmin ad to the tune of Carol of the Bells, basically saying how Garmin can help save you from all the hassles of Christmas shopping.

Hassles? Christmas shopping? Did I use those two words in the same sentence? Christmas shopping isn’t supposed to be a hassle.

Well, basically, when I hear Christmas music on a commercial break, and people start singing, and I don’t recognize the lyrics, I immediately turn the radio volume completely down. I find them highly annoying, second only to kids voices in radio ads, and just above “doofus dads” ads. You know, the ones where Dad doesn’t know diddly-squat about the topic du-jour, and that Mom and the little girl are the experts …

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