Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Wrong Sweater
Wow! I saw the most incredible commercial on TV. The ad featured a tall blond man with a Scandinavian accent. It was very clear that they were trying to portray this man as Scandinavian, but he was wearing an Aran sweater! Can you believe it? I was appalled. I don't even remember what the ad was for because I was too busy being distracted by this Scandinavian man's Irish sweater. Who does that? If you are going to go to the trouble to play off of a stereotype, you should at least get the stereotype right. There are so many different sweaters they could have used instead to be believable. Well now we know: that product is no good. If the manufacturers are not going to take the trouble to get the knitting correct, who knows what other corners they have cut.
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Seriously, you crack me up. What to be the ad busting detective.
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