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Microsoft Enlists Jerry Seinfeld In Its Ad Battle Against Apple
The Wall Street Journal (excerpt) (subscription required) ^
| August 21, 2008
| SUZANNE VRANICA and ROBERT A. GUTH
Posted on 08/21/2008 12:33:28 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
I never watched it either. Who cares about a bunch of whiney New Yorkers.
Appearing with Gates, Seinfeld will be the “cool” guy. Just barely.
Maybe Vista will be portrayed as the soup Nazi (I saw it on youtube). Do it my way or “No computing for you!”
I don’t know about everyone else but I can’t pass through a window any more than I can pass through a wall.
To: Lancey Howard
Great show. Some episodes are absolute masterpieces, and the casting was always perfect.Absolutely agree. Incredible bunch of writers too.
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posted on
08/21/2008 3:55:09 AM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
To: HAL9000
I'm probably the only person on the planet who never watched his TV show. I never "watched" it except for maybe two episodes. I think Seinfeld is terribly boring.
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posted on
08/21/2008 3:58:23 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
To: HAL9000
Microsoft Corp., weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple Inc.'s advertising, is turning for help to Jerry Seinfeld.I can see the brilliance in this. This is an incredibly hip move by Microsoft.
If it were 1998.
Yep, nothing shows you're not stodgy than bringing in the guy who had that hip edgy show last century.
You kids! With your Offices, your Two Men, and When I Met Your Mother...aahhh! Now Seinfeld! THAT was a show... Now get the hell off my lawn!
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posted on
08/21/2008 4:16:14 AM PDT
by
MichiganMan
(So you bought that big vehicle and now want to whine about how much it costs to fill it? Seriously?)
To: MichiganMan
.....You kids!.....Now get the hell off my lawn!.....
But pick up all those little green BB’s before you go!!
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posted on
08/21/2008 4:54:42 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Conservation? Let the NE Yankees freeze.... in the dark)
To: taildragger
I watched 5 minutes once, and was so annoyed by their nothingness I turned it off. Same here. All during the 90's I got "You look like Seinfeld" or "You look like Kramer" but couldn't stand to even watch the show. The first full episode I actually watched was The Finale.
Then I watched a re-run of "The Handicapped Spot" at a friends house and was hooked, though I refused to admit it at first, and hid it like it was Kenny Rogers Chicken.
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#26 was supposed to be a Seinfeld Ping.
Want to be on our list? You must name names.
To: HAL9000
Pushing an OS that’s about nothing, I see. Jerry Seinfeld, from Bee Movie, to B-software...
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posted on
08/21/2008 5:16:16 AM PDT
by
hunter112
(The 'straight talk express' gets the straight finger express from me.)
To: HAL9000
It carried a lot of “life lessons”...like “shrinkage”.
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posted on
08/21/2008 5:16:17 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
To: windcliff
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posted on
08/21/2008 5:51:01 PM PDT
by
stylecouncilor
(I'm a loner Dottie; a rebel.)
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Microsoft recruits Jerry Seinfeld in anti-Mac campaignPING!
(Pssst... Jerry Seinfeld is a Mac user...) Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
08/21/2008 8:56:30 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: Swordmaker
Pssssst, Jerry Seinfeld is a “has been.”
To: HAL9000
Jerry was pretty hip in 1996.
Actually, the show was/is pretty funny. I watched a rerun today that broke me up.
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posted on
08/21/2008 9:09:40 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
(How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral?)
To: anymouse
Seinfields great marketing slogan for MicroSoft. I would add:
"No Windows XP for you!"
"Vista - it's European!"
To: taildragger
I watched 5 minutes once, and was so annoyed by their nothingness I turned it off. You've got the point of Seinfeld. It was a show about nothing! There were a series of episodes where George and Jerry pitch a "show about nothing" to the TV execs.
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posted on
08/21/2008 9:13:59 PM PDT
by
6SJ7
Seinfeld the show was funny, too bad Seinfeld the “comedian” isn’t.
I wonder how many programmers could have have been employed for the price JS charges for this?
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posted on
08/21/2008 9:36:14 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: HAL9000
“According to the article, the new slogan for the product is “Windows, Not Walls”. “
Levels, Jerry.
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posted on
08/21/2008 9:52:20 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: HAL9000
weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple Inc.'s advertising, is turning for help to Jerry Seinfeld. And how OLD is Seinfeld now? Got to be in his 50's. The guy who plays PC in the Mac ads is much younger.
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posted on
08/22/2008 5:41:09 AM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: HAL9000
Those Apple commercials are perfect fodder for someone like Jerry Seinfeld. Look at it...the PC guy is always dressed nice, always willing to work. Sure he screws up, but who doesn’t? Who is perfect. Meanwhile the Mac guy is never doing anything. He just stands around, kind of laid back. Slacking. The message for business is clear. PC works. He tries. He has ambition. Mac stands around and look cool.
To: hunter112
Pushing an OS thats about nothing, I see. Jerry Seinfeld, from Bee Movie, to B-software...
BINGO !
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posted on
08/22/2008 6:13:30 AM PDT
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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