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Topic: Those confusing Gap commercials
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SteveLaRiviere
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From: Saco, Maine MCA # 47773
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posted 12-12-2001 08:32 PM
   
You know the one where various people sing the Supertramp song, 'Give a little bit?' I can't name a single one of the singers. The last guy sounds like Warren Zevon, but he's black and as far as I know, Warren is still white.  ------------------
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IIGood
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From: Arnold, MD, USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-12-2001 08:40 PM
I can't recall all of them, but I know a few of them were Alanis Morrisette, Macy Gray, Seal (I think), Johnny Reznick...um...I'd have to see the commercials again to tell you others.------------------
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SteveLaRiviere
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posted 12-12-2001 08:47 PM
Who's Johnny Reznick?------------------
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mellowyellow
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posted 12-12-2001 08:47 PM
Maybe they want you to 'bridge the Gap'! LOL! I see them but they don't register. When I hear it I remember from the last time the commercial, but NOT the product- ie Gap. There's a commercial about the woman on her 50 the Anniversary shoving cake in her husband/s face. Something about getting a realtor or lawyer, etc. It's funny, and I remember the commercial but NOT the product. Sh*tty ads, then. I remember the talking animal ads! Calvin Klein ads are memorable!!!
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IIGood
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From: Arnold, MD, USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-12-2001 08:55 PM
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Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
Who's Johnny Reznick?
He's the lead singer for the Goo Goo Dolls, if you've heard of them. They did a song for the movie "Twister" and another one for "City of Angels" (I think that's what it's called...Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan). Reznick also paired up with Fred Durst to cover the Pink Floyd song "Wish You Were Here" at that All-Star Tribute to Heroes that happened back in October or September. ------------------
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Big D
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posted 12-12-2001 09:05 PM
That's the idea... You don't need to know the singers name... Just "THE GAP" Looks like it worked... I bet when you go to a mall and see THE GAP you'll think about that ad...  THEY GOTCHA... ------------------
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SteveLaRiviere
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posted 12-12-2001 09:26 PM
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Originally posted by IIGood:
He's the lead singer for the Goo Goo Dolls, if you've heard of them.
Yup, I heard of them, sonny! ------------------
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SteveLaRiviere
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posted 12-12-2001 09:29 PM
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Originally posted by IIGood:
Alanis Morrisette, Macy Gray, Seal
I know these people, too. I was just wondering who the black guy with the dreadlocks that sounds like Warren Zevon was. I just saw the commercial again, and the one I'm referring to only has the guy with the dreadlocks in it. ------------------
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From: Arnold, MD, USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-12-2001 10:39 PM
Ah, I believe that's Shaggy. At least, that's the only guy I know that's got that voice. A few years ago he did a song called "Mr. Boombastic" and more recently, a song called "Wasn't me" (I think). That song is basically about getting caught cheating...then trying to say..well, it wasn't me. Why I know this, don't ask me. I don't listen to that kind of music.  ------------------
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Mike65
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Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 12-12-2001 11:59 PM
I dont know any of them, very mixed up comercial. Shaggy, I thought he was in the scobby doo cartoons? LOL HaHaHa.------------------
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I65Stang
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From: Antelope, CA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-13-2001 12:01 AM
quote:
Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
I know these people, too. I was just wondering who the black guy with the dreadlocks that sounds like Warren Zevon was.I just saw the commercial again, and the one I'm referring to only has the guy with the dreadlocks in it.
Yup, that would be Shaggy. ------------------
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SteveLaRiviere
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posted 12-13-2001 06:27 PM
Those Scooby snacks really made his voice deep! ------------------
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I65Stang
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posted 12-13-2001 06:36 PM
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Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
Those Scooby snacks really made his voice deep!
Lol, whats funny is that he sounds nothing like that when he speaks. He is from the good ol' USA (cant remember where exactly). He was in the Army and during marching he had to do their lil chant or whatever you want to call it, and he came up with the accent (nope, he is not Jamacan [sp]). ------------------
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Ked
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From: The Rolling Hills of Sand of North Carolina
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posted 12-13-2001 06:39 PM
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Originally posted by I65Stang:
He was in the Army and during marching he had to do their lil chant or whatever you want to call it
Cadence (sp???)
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Fastymz
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From: Reno Nv
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 12-13-2001 07:24 PM
Hey I dont know most of these people, and dont get most the adds out there.
But like the funny ones best at least they entertain me alittle. I like the one (not a gap add)with the dog driving and the guys talking to him.He drives in the water after the ducks.LOL
Thats one funny add,I still dont have any idea what the add is for. SCOOP ------------------
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kid vishus
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From: from between the end of the road, and the middleof no-where
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 12-13-2001 07:29 PM
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Originally posted by Fastymz:
I like the one (not a gap add)with the dog driving and the guys talking to him.He drives in the water after the ducks.LOL
Thats one funny add,I still dont have any idea what the add is for. SCOOP
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SteveLaRiviere
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posted 12-13-2001 07:43 PM
That is a good one, Scoop! ------------------
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AKBOSSMAN
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From: WASILLA , AK USA M&M #743 MCA #40857
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 12-13-2001 07:53 PM
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Originally posted by Mike65:
I dont know any of them, very mixed up comercial. Shaggy, I thought he was in the scobby doo cartoons? LOL HaHaHa.
I'm with you Mike .
I thought they were just singers.  ------------------
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Big D
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posted 12-13-2001 09:22 PM
You guys don't get it... They got your attention. We have teen age kids... They go to GAP... We walk into the mall... Kids say, "I want to go to the GAP"... You say, "OK, at least they do ads with old songs in them"... The GAP wins...  You may not have know what the ad was about, but you know who the GAP is... Don
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kwazykat
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From: orange county, nc , M&M member #92
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-13-2001 09:29 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Big D:
That's the idea... You don't need to know the singers name... Just "THE GAP" Looks like it worked...
THEY GOTCHA...
i swear i am not a political person
really....
but here is a link to some folks who
are really putting themselves out there
to protest the big american ad campaign monster.... sort of like the greenpeace of media advertising... i just happened to read about it today
and figured what the hay.... i know nothing about it but the little bit i have skimmed. it may offend folks cause they are very blunt about how the dumbing down of america
has allowed such stupid ads (as the ones they discuss) to dominate our culture.... i dont condone OR endorse this site
i just happened across it in a local publication.... my first thoughts is that it would be funny.... but truth is .....they have some serious issues to present.... http://adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/toolbox/uncommercial/ anyways.... just my little non-political two-cents.... i am just the messenger....
puh-leeeeeze dont shoot me!!
heh heh heh 
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