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Tue, Mar 13, 2007

Cute Commercials

Posted at 11:03 pm MDT to Media

Two cute commercials I've been encountering lately.

The Denver St Patrick's Day Parade has a radio commercial with what sounds like the "Beef, what's for dinner" guy...very deep-voiced and 'western' sounding. The commercial begins when someone asks him why he is wearing a green cowboy hat and he explains that he is going to the parade, which has a theme of "Irish Roots and Cowboy Boots" this year. The other person says "I didn't know know that you were Irish" and he answers "I'm not, but my horse, is". Then the horse snorts and whinnies and he says "Whoa, Shamus, easy boy..." A regular announcer gives some information about time and place for the parade, and finishes by saying that it is not required that you or your horse are Irish.

The other commercial I think is cute is one for a carpet cleaner featuring a lady who is supposedly a dog-sitter whose carpets have been messed up by her 'guests', one of which looks like a black and white toy fox terrier. At the end of the commercial, the terrier is lying on a dog bed and barks a couple of times, and the lady makes a mouth-closing gesture with her hand and says "Use your Inside voice", and he barks again, softer. I like this one because of the 'indoor voice' (I rather doubt that really works with dogs) and because the dog with the indoor voice looks like a fox terrier.

My family had a not-quite-toy fox terrier beginning in 1969: his parents were toy fox terriers, but he was a throwback and was as big as his mom when he was three months old. We named him Buzz because we got him the weekend of the first moon landing. John Glenn's name didn't make a good dog name.

Buzz looked a lot like the RCA dog: he had one ear that was always pricked up, and th eother sort of flopped over.

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