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FriarNurgle
07/13/09

In reply to The Palm Pre: It's Good For Your Cooter
I gotta a bing bing bing for her, if ya know what I mean. Wink. Wink. Nudge. Nudge. He told them knowingly.
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NurseDave
07/13/09

@FriarNurgle: No, what exactly is it that you mean?
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Margatron
07/14/09

@NurseDave: I think he means Cha-Ching!
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dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
07/13/09

In reply to The Palm Pre: It's Good For Your Cooter
The "bing bing bing" as well as the rest of the commercial is designed to hypnotize you. To lull you into a state of semi-attention, where logos can be easily inserted into your subconscious. Then when you get to the phone store you pick up a palm pre and don't remember where you heard about it, but the name resonates in your subconscious, and pushes you closer towards a possible sale. It does not matter at all that you like the ad or think it relevant to the product.

The reason the "bing bing bing" creeps you out is because you can feel that there is something wrong, you are basically snapping yourself out of being hypnotized. If you don't think it's creepy you are probably "just going with the flow" and fully hypnotized for the logo to get stuck in your head.
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Edited by dolo54 blows minds and blows engines! at 07/13/09 7:09 PM

ID Ron Burgundy
07/14/09

@dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!: Nicely written up.

And @bennymatthew: You should probably wait until you can actually comment to start doling out the hate words. Fair enough?
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OpenPotion
07/14/09

@dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!: true they first bring up something pleasant, the feeling of things going smoothly, then they try to anchor it to the palm pre in your brain so that you associate the palm pre with that great feeling of things going smoothly.
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ID Ron Burgundy
07/14/09

@OpenPotion and @dolo54...: So I'll know who to come to when I don't feel like looking at my psych book for the test, amirite?

With that said, I totally agree with you guys.
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Benguin
07/13/09

In reply to The Palm Pre: It's Good For Your Cooter
Is this supposed to be subliminal Microsoft advertising as well? Maybe they figure since Google is already in bed with Apple, they'll try to get Bing on their side.
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Curves
07/13/09

In reply to The Palm Pre: It's Good For Your Cooter
I saw the commercial and wondered who their target demographic was. I think it must be women, but I dont know why they think we would like it, it did nothing to make me want the phone, although she did have nice hair. And she isnt naked.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
07/14/09

@Curves: Well her shoulders are bare and for some of the guys around here, that's enough...
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LessthanZach
07/14/09

@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Oh yeah it is!! /s
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ID Ron Burgundy
07/14/09

@LessthanZach: Haha, nice use of the sarcasm tag. Seriously, when will they include that in html?? lol.

And @Curves: I wouldn't exactly count you as the typical female, ya know, being on a gadget blog and stuff, but I think what you said really hits the nail on the head.
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arke
07/13/09

In reply to The Palm Pre: It's Good For Your Cooter
Could someone explain this comment system here? Thanks!
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NurseDave
07/13/09

@arke: Well see, you type things in the box. Sometimes they end up where you think they will be, sometimes they don't. And other times they end up in one place and then move around a bit later. And there's a button at the bottom you need to push EVERY FUCKING TIME so you can see everything all the nice people here have said.
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ID Ron Burgundy
07/14/09

@arke: Step 1: Cut a hole in a box...

Oh wait, that's for something else. Yeah, as far as the comments go, it's a mystery.
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rm121976
07/13/09

In reply to The Palm Pre: It's Good For Your Cooter
mature journalism here.

and you wonder why nobody takes you guys as serious as they do the other gadget blogs...
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Jason Chen
07/13/09

@rm121976: Actually they do, if by they we're talking about people like Apple and Palm. You know, the companies that actually make the products we like. Only people who aren't comfortable talking about vaginas think we're immature.
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EBone
07/13/09

@rm121976: Yet you are here reading this...
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philibuster
07/13/09

In reply to The Palm Pre: It's Good For Your Cooter
This commercial creeps me out every time it comes on TV. I have no idea what it's trying to tell me, so I guess it's not working.
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Dillinger23
07/13/09

@philibuster: This is the problem with most phone commercials and why people have no idea what their phones do. You either have this non sequitur crap or you have a phone DJing a space party on an asteroid while riding in a ferrari and doing a jig.

How does that tell me anything about a phone?
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KraZy007
07/13/09

In reply to The Palm Pre: It's Good For Your Cooter
I have to say, these Pre commercials are terribly written. "The other day I was at the park, and I saw a juggler. And she was good." WTF crap writing is that?

The messages in these commercials are so convoluted and that actress is quite odd to the point of being creepy.

Terrible Palm, just terrible.
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raleel
07/13/09

In reply to The Palm Pre: It's Good For Your Cooter
I can't help but see the word cooter and think of my programming languages professor, a fairly attractive female, talking about the LISP function "ctr", which she called "cooter".
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Toastie
07/13/09

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You know I liked their last commercial, but this one just makes me feel awkward.
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bosskev
07/13/09

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"You ever have one of those days where...it's like you're not even trying?"

Kind of describes the effort put into this commercial. ~~Bing. Bing. Bing.~~ ~~Lame. Lame. Lame.~~ Bong. Bong. Bong.

And, Jason, you just missed posting this ode-to-stoners at 4:20.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
07/13/09

@bosskev: Stoners? What for stoners?
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
07/13/09

@Lite: is on a boat.: And why is your, and my, stars awol? *blink*
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bosskev
07/13/09

@Lite: is on a boat.: Maybe our stars are off having a clandestine rendezvous? Would be just my lot in life that my star is getting lucky without me. Say...is that what Ripley meant when she was singing "lucky, lucky star" just before blasting the alien into space?

I am in communication with Jason. This may be a new commenting system bug, has also happened to Nick with no apparent rationale.
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amandizzle
07/13/09

@bosskev: "Bong. Bong. Bong." is definitely more like it. The director must have liked the hairstylist too, because we see nearly as much of the back of her head as her creepy stoned face.

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zenpoet
07/13/09

@bosskev: I talked it over with my star, and we thought yours was getting a bit cocky, so we paid some wrench monkey from down on the corner to take your star out behind the IHOP and beat it until it was so small not even the little prince could live on it. So... that's where its at.
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bosskev
07/13/09

@zenpoet: Well, I guess that's OK, as long as my star brings me back some pancakes. And with some of that really good/bad fake boysenberry blue-ish syrup!
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Dallifornia
07/13/09

In reply to The Palm Pre: It's Good For Your Cooter
Yeah, the "bing bing bing" thing was freaky as hell, like when you hear an old person hum a tune for 40 years ago during a conversation.
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Gaucho85
07/13/09

In reply to The Palm Pre: It's Good For Your Cooter
OH! she's a Canadian actress... They keep playing this comercial on tv. I figured it was some sort of albino awarness PSA. needless to say I was scared shitless when it started talking.
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Bertone77
07/13/09

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Hmm...I though she was going to talk about this...
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zenpoet
07/13/09

@Bertone Zero77: "Sure. Thats why I douche."

Best quote ever.
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PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
07/13/09

In reply to The Palm Pre: It's Good For Your Cooter
I never thought I'd see the tags Palm Pre and vaginas, tampon and period in the same post. That made me laugh.
And what the hell is this Canadian actress alll aboot.
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Skeetz
07/13/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: you just have to put it in context.. i use my palm when my girl is pre menstrual because she won't let me tampon her vagina .
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DPeezy
07/13/09

@Skeetz: I think that 'context' is even more disturbing than this commercial...
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Skeetz
07/13/09

@DPeezy: I meant "tap on" when I bolded those letters I thought it would have worked better.. i don't actually want to.. you know..
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