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(GEICO)'Cavemen' series gets a new criticism: It's racist
The Miami Herald ^ | July 26, 2007 | GLENN GARVIN

Posted on 07/26/2007 10:19:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: AZLiberty

Totally off topic, but look at those blue jeans (guy on the left). Back in ‘81, they didn’t just come off the rack like that. That is an authentic, perfectly broken in pair of jeans, probably representing a couple years of wear and washing. Very cool to see the real deal. That photo is also a perfect example of fashion wraparound. The young hipster guy in the modern Apple commercials has the same look as the guy on the left (who is probably 50 years old now). What once was old is new again.


101 posted on 07/27/2007 2:50:51 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: MEGoody
I wish they'd replace the gecko commercials with more caveman commercials.

Me too.

The gecko commercials are reptilist.

102 posted on 07/27/2007 2:54:34 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: donna
Pretty funny that anyone thinks these 3-things go together in one person no matter what race they are.

Well you obviously haven't met me, baby.

Not only that, I'm humble.

103 posted on 07/27/2007 3:00:36 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (The FairTax and the North American Union are mutually exclusive.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For those who claim that the GEICO caveman adds are racist, I just have to say, “he who smelt it, dealt it”.


104 posted on 07/27/2007 3:00:38 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Yardstick

You probably know this, but the “guy on the left” is Steve Jobs.


105 posted on 07/27/2007 3:02:25 PM PDT by AZLiberty (President Fred -- I like the sound of it.)
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To: ovrtaxt
good dancers, great athletes, grand sexual partners and humble

Now we're talking Superman!

106 posted on 07/27/2007 3:12:07 PM PDT by donna (The United States Constitution and the Koran are mutually exclusive.)
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To: tracer

Too Much! :)


107 posted on 07/27/2007 3:14:55 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: donna

You know it, sugar mama!


108 posted on 07/27/2007 3:19:04 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (The FairTax and the North American Union are mutually exclusive.)
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To: SkyPilot

That’s Nagin’s New Orleans isn’t it?


109 posted on 07/27/2007 4:09:54 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (If you agee with Democrats you agree with America's enemies.)
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To: Sloth

Uh yeah...me too. With their roast duck with mango salsa, tennis racket in an airport, psychoanalyst, penthouse with balcony...


110 posted on 07/27/2007 5:01:45 PM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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To: BykrBayb
It's really a show about acclimation more than anything, and that's something that everybody deals with, doesn't matter if you're a minority or not.''

I don't find offense with this statement. It seems to me that he's saying that feeling excluded or left out is not exclusive to any one ethnicity or group.

I don't think there is anyone who hasn't felt at one time or another that they didn't fit in. A common human experience.

111 posted on 07/27/2007 5:41:13 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Believe it or not, some people don’t want to fit in. They are the ones complaining, because they can’t understand the concept.


112 posted on 07/27/2007 5:43:24 PM PDT by BykrBayb (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb
Believe it or not, some people don’t want to fit in.

Certainly there are. Everywhere. Across the board there are always complainers and whiners. I just don't see anything wrong with the statement that was made by Lawson.

113 posted on 07/27/2007 5:58:35 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“If we had technical advisors,” Gordon conceded, “we would probably fire them.”

LMAO.


114 posted on 07/27/2007 5:59:09 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (When Bubba lies, the finger flies!)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Neither do I, except for the fact that he’s naive. But the complainers apparently have a real problem with it. They don’t think it’s possible for anyone to want to fit in.


115 posted on 07/27/2007 6:02:30 PM PDT by BykrBayb (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb

My biggest problem with fitting in right now is my last year’s swimsuit...... ;)


116 posted on 07/27/2007 6:17:27 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Lijahsbubbe
Try stipes.

If all else fails, go vintage.

117 posted on 07/27/2007 6:25:55 PM PDT by BykrBayb (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub ~ Þ)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

An artificial controversy designed to get free publicity.


118 posted on 07/27/2007 6:31:38 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: hunter112
“Alien Nation.
Exactly. That series used fictional extraterrestrials on Earth to be stand-ins for all the prejudice that humans show each other. Even black people could be ‘racist’ towards the ‘Newcomers’.”

How can you say that, you stinking Slag!

/exhibition of geekness...

119 posted on 07/27/2007 7:20:22 PM PDT by Old Student (We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
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To: primeval patriot

“That said, I don’t think there’s enough material in the concept for it to be successful as a television series.

But then who knows given the rock bottom garbage it’ll be competing with in prime time.”

Totally agree.

But I for one didn’t find the caveman commercials funny. Not did I find them “affinitizing” to the brand, but that’s just me.


120 posted on 07/27/2007 7:48:28 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (When Bubba lies, the finger flies!)
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