"Global Warming Ready" Just Means More Hip And Trendy Beaches. (Trees And Things)

thefadd: Now That I Think Of It

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:27:48 EST

I did see these ads. They were pretty funny and standard for the type of ad that Deisel goes for. I think anything that brings up the global warming discussion is a good thing. In some ways, I do think ads in this veign can contribute to the overall assump

MayorBob: Re: Behind The Times

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:16:05 EST

Not a faux pas and no offense taken. I believe my link essentially clarifies the point as to who came up with the campaign; I just inelegantly worded the thing.

cloudofdust: Re: Behind The Times

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:55:23 EST

The campaign mentioned in the link is (RED). I know it's a tremendous faux pas to cast aspersions on any aspect of a Mayorbob writeup but if the topic is companies hitching their wagons to social causes then (RED) is the biggest example of that right now.

thefadd: Re: Behind The Times

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:20:10 EST

Technically, the write-up doesn't say Motorola and Sprint came up with (RED). It says they came up with the single campaign on that page. It made me pause, too, because I thought Gap had come up with it for a long time since it's been all over their ads fr

cloudofdust: Behind The Times

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:31:32 EST

I'd say Diesel is a little late to the party. People have been making global warming jokes for years. The tired old cliche was "Cold enough for ya?" The tired new cliche is "Where's that global warming they've been talking about?"

As an aside, it wasn't