While browsing the Trojan Games site (not safe for work) I saw an ad for a Romanian bank:
I know things are kind of primitive there, but is Andy Kaufman writing their ads?
In Soviet Russia, bank borrow from you!
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now i am going to start a clothing line with a tagline that goes, “wear clothes and you won’t be naked.”
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Nice icon!
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hahah, thanks!
that’s funny–on a messageboard somewhere in internetland, i use the picture of girl from the “are 80s” strip.
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A Close Reading
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As you say, it’s a novel (and therefore marketable) concept to keep one’s money in a bank. or…
It’s just the next level up in hyper-deadpan/ironic advertising copy, i.e., telling you something this obvious is just a big joke that the advertiser and the audience are both on in. You’ll be laughing all the way to the bank ! HAW ! HAW !
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Banks, in most other countries, are not insured, and therefore if they go under, which they regularly do, your money goes with them, so a great many people simply don’t use them.
There was actually a very similar situation/campaign, in the US, in the 30’s and 40’s following the depression, and formation of the FDIC.
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wow, that was quite a run-on sentence, wasn’t it. 🙂
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Sure, and it’s even worse in the eastern bloc, where banks are basically run by criminals who take the money and run. The ad just hit my absurdist bone.
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Yeah, Romania’s a weird country. I have a relative there, and she says that it’s really going down-hill fast – about to collapse, really. It’s going to be an ugly few years, in the Eastern Bloc.
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