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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / May 2004OT: Funny commercial
I don't think I've laughed so hard at a commercial. It is for a health care company and it has these two guys (who don't seem very bright) trying to "bag" a huge hornets nest that is hanging in a tree. Guy #1 climbs up a really wobbly A-frame ladder, perches on the tippy top of it with some pruning sheers. Tells guy #2 (who is standing below with a trash barrel and holding the lid) "when I cut this and it falls in, get that lid on *fast*." He reaches to cut the tree limb with the hornet nest on it, the ladder tips and guy #1 grabs (and I mean a serious bear-hug!) the hornet nest to keep from falling. Both man and nest fall to the ground as the camera pans away from the carnage. Narrator: When you need health care now... (blah blah blah) ouchy!  SignatureCheryl I see that commercial regularly. Agree it's hilarious. There's another good one I now see where some dude sitting @ his desk @ work is eating a BK "FlameThrower" Whopper; it catches everything on his desk afire and his mouth, when he yells, throws bazooka-like flames, which sets off the office smoke detectors overhead. Last camera shot: coworkers are running around in the drizzle and he's standing on his chair, licking the overhead sprinkler system's nozzles. : I don't think I've laughed so hard at a commercial. It is for a health care : company and it has these two guys (who don't seem very bright) trying to [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] : : ouchy! >I see that commercial regularly. Agree it's hilarious. There's another good >one I now see where some dude sitting @ his desk @ work is eating a BK [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Last camera shot: coworkers are running around in the drizzle and he's >standing on his chair, licking the overhead sprinkler system's nozzles. Slapstick will never die. ;) Theresa alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. (Aldous Huxley) >I don't think I've laughed so hard at a commercial. It is for a health care >company and it has these two guys (who don't seem very bright) trying to [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >ouchy! That's funny. And it sounds like a good idea! I'll have to try it. I've had to destroy nests a few times over the years, because wasps are so stubborn when they get it into their heads that a particular place would be good for making a nest. The most stubborn wasp I've come across was when I was still in school. During spring, a queen wasp decided that my mailbox would be the perfect place to start her nest. So every day after school, I would come home, check the mail, and find a tiny budding nest with an egg in each cell. The queen would hover around my head in impotent agitation, and I would ignore her. I plucked off the nest, tossed it aside, and took the mail. In the beginning, I thought that the queen would get the point and go somewhere else, but she never did. So every day, check the mail and remove the nest. On Mondays, the nest would be larger than usual since there was no mail to check on Sundays. This went on for months. Finally, one cool day in Fall, I found no new nest in the mailbox. I looked around for the queen, and I found her on the pavement underneath the mailbox, shivering. If things had gone normally for her, by now, she would be secure in her nest, warmed and fed by her workers. Instead, she had no nest, no colony, and had to forage for herself every day. I did not see her again after that. Yes, wasps are very stubborn about placing their nests. I had been flipping them off our utility room jalousie door for *years* and they continued to build and propagate there. Finally, we got a new steel door there.....the wasps then built a large nest right on our electricity meter, which we didn't find out about till we saw the meter reader doing a strange hopping dance one day out there and then tear out of the yard and down the road to his vehicle. : >I don't think I've laughed so hard at a commercial. It is for a health care : >company and it has these two guys (who don't seem very bright) trying to [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] : workers. Instead, she had no nest, no colony, and had to forage for : herself every day. I did not see her again after that. Yup - stubborn little buggers. We replaced our bedroom windows last summer (before we found Weeble inna yard), and on the 'front' one, the flashing was a bit warped - when we removed it, we found a wasp nest in it, boring into the wood some, even! We disposed of that flashing, and the wood (partially rotten because of the ill-fitting flashing) was replaced, new window installed, and new flashing in place. Next day, I see a wasp hovering around the window looking for the opening in the old warped flashing! I haven't seen any since, but that doesn't mean that they aren't nesting behind the decorative (as in non-functioning) shutters just a few inches away from where they were nesting last year. SignatureThe ONE and ONLY lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)? http://www.geocities.com/the_magic_mood_jeep/ http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep > Yes, wasps are very stubborn about placing their nests. I had been flipping > them off our utility room jalousie door for *years* and they continued to [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > : workers. Instead, she had no nest, no colony, and had to forage for > : herself every day. I did not see her again after that. >Yes, wasps are very stubborn about placing their nests. I had been flipping >them off our utility room jalousie door for *years* and they continued to [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >dance one day out there and then tear out of the yard and down the road to >his vehicle. I didn't know that wasps could save you on your utility bill. ;) >Yes, wasps are very stubborn about placing their nests. I had been flipping >them off our utility room jalousie door for *years* and they continued to [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] >: workers. Instead, she had no nest, no colony, and had to forage for >: herself every day. I did not see her again after that. What's a jalousie door? I hate wasps and yellowjackets. DH keeps honey bees, and you really don't have to be afraid of them. They are just not aggressive. If one gets in the house, you can catch it in your hands (carefully) and they never bite. He does it all the time. I'm not so brave, I still use a tea towel to catch them. Sherry I used to have pals when we lived in Miami who kept bees in their backyard....the bees also came in their house.....I finally got brave enough to let a pack of them light and crawl around on my arm. Not one bite; he explained they were like drunk from the smoke he had lit in their flat layered home (nest, I guess you'd call it) and that made them non-aggressive and mellow. They used to give me honeycomb, which I loved. A "jalousie" door is a regular wooden door with flat glass narrow panels in middle that have a crank to open and close them for air circulation. Larger jalousies are used in this area in older type windows of houses, again w/crank handles for opening/closing. Jalousies were much more in evidence here in the long-ago years before a/c became widespread and "catching the breezes" was an important feature in housing comfort factors. : >Yes, wasps are very stubborn about placing their nests. I had been flipping : >them off our utility room jalousie door for *years* and they continued to [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] : the time. I'm not so brave, I still use a tea towel to catch them. : Sherry >I used to have pals when we lived in Miami who kept bees in their >backyard....the bees also came in their house.....I finally got brave enough >to let a pack of them light and crawl around on my arm. Not one bite; he >explained they were like drunk from the smoke he had lit in their flat >layered home (nest, I guess you'd call it) and that made them non-aggressive >and mellow. They used to give me honeycomb, which I loved. I've never had raw honey. It sounds delicious! I heard somewhere that bees become subdued by smoke, because it makes them think that their hive is on fire, and they start getting busy eating as much honey as they can. Personally, if my house was on fire, I wouldn't wait around to hit the fridge. :) ROFL, neither would I stop to chow down w/house afire. Raw honey on a comb tastes great. One drawback I remember was this: most but not all (read tiny words on labels of jars in store) honey sold commercially is "clover" or "orange blossom" honey - that's what the bees eat off of locally where they're cultivated. Everyone knows the taste of that flavor honey. My friends' bees, OTOH, were feeding off the local flowers/plants/weeds around their house, and I really had to get used to the modified stronger flavors of their free gifts to me. Wherever you live, seek out local honeybee cultivators who sell their honey, and you'll have the flavors of whatever bee-attractive-for-feeding plants abound near the hives. The comb makes a wonderful chewing-gum substitute. : >I used to have pals when we lived in Miami who kept bees in their : >backyard....the bees also came in their house.....I finally got brave enough [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] : eating as much honey as they can. Personally, if my house was on : fire, I wouldn't wait around to hit the fridge. :) I remember a roadside stand in Arkansas that sold raw honey. They said it was so good that, if you put a drop of it on your forehead, your tongue would beat your brains out trying to get a taste. > ROFL, neither would I stop to chow down w/house afire. Raw honey on a comb > tastes great. <snip > Finally, one cool day in Fall, I found no new nest in the mailbox. I > looked around for the queen, and I found her on the pavement > underneath the mailbox, shivering. If things had gone normally for > her, by now, she would be secure in her nest, warmed and fed by her > workers. Instead, she had no nest, no colony, and had to forage for > herself every day. I did not see her again after that. What a sad ending. :( I don't like bugs of any kind but this ending the way you tell it made me really feel bad for her. Her determination was the end of her. :( SignatureCheryl >> Finally, one cool day in Fall, I found no new nest in the mailbox. I >> looked around for the queen, and I found her on the pavement [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >way you tell it made me really feel bad for her. Her determination was the >end of her. :( I was a bit sad to see her go - that must've showed. I wouldn't worry, because I think she's at RB now, waiting to sting me. :) >>> Finally, one cool day in Fall, I found no new nest in the mailbox. >>> I looked around for the queen, and I found her on the pavement [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I was a bit sad to see her go - that must've showed. I wouldn't > worry, because I think she's at RB now, waiting to sting me. :) LOL SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy, Milo & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. IHave been trying to write about two adds lately but when I try to post on a new page I get a little love note on the screen saying 'no match we could not send your post and yet I have copied the address carefully so I have to use replies, I was asking if anyone had seen these adds, A brilliant one where a woman is having a cup of coffee while her DH gets dressed, they are obviously going somewhere quite grand, he is callingto her if she knows where his trousers are and she just melts into the sofa where she is sitting and you cannot see her till she moves her head, it is so clever and needs more explanation but it is incredible. I wont tell the other one now as i have gone on long enough. Jean.P. > I don't think I've laughed so hard at a commercial. It is for a health care > company and it has these two guys (who don't seem very bright) trying to [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > -- > Cheryl > I was asking if anyone had seen these adds, A brilliant > one where a woman is having a cup of coffee while her DH gets dressed, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > it is so clever and needs more > explanation but it is incredible. It doesn't sound familiar at all but sounds funny. I take it that it is a coffee commercial? I wont tell the other one now as i > have gone on long enough. I hope to read it soon. SignatureCheryl >>I was asking if anyone had seen these adds, A brilliant >>one where a woman is having a cup of coffee while her DH gets dressed, [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > It doesn't sound familiar at all but sounds funny. I take it that it is a > coffee commercial? I LOVE that commercial! Yes, I think it's for coffee. The woman has this elaborate evening suit which matches the cushions on the sofa a hat which blends right in to the vase of flowers behind her. It's very clever. Can't remember the brand of coffee though. Helen Wheels |
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