IBM Linux Ads

[mbsmith at dstsystems.com]

Yes, I think you must be the last person the ads!  These are my favourite 
right now.  Some other scenarios in the basketball ad campaign are:

- the 'good' team, all of them, are laying injured on the floor.  A team 
manager tells another he's never seen all of them down at once, to which 
the other responds "Wait till you see this", and then two team assistants 
run on the court to attend to the downed players, with the court announcer 
introducing them as "Here's BACK-UP, and RE-COV-ER-YYY!" (the names on 
their back) and the crowd applauds and the players start getting up with 
their help.

- The two managers are in an office discussing the team.  One says, "This 
new guy, Linux, is real good and plays for peanuts.  Why would he play for 
peanuts?".  The other responds slowly, "Loves.. to play.. the game" (my #1 
favourite).

Another great one, non-basketball related, is when a group of managers and 
security guards are bursting into an almost empty computer room, freaking 
out, saying things like, "the servers, they've taken all the servers!". 
Then they see one geek eating something near the only server left, and he 
says "I moved everything on to this one", and then the voiceover says 
something like "Linix - it'll save you a bundle".

You need to get off that computer, and watch more TV.

Cheers
Mark Smith

Seth Dimbert <s.dimbert at fhmr.com>
Sent by: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
05/30/2002 08:18 AM

 
        To:     kclug at kclug.org
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        Subject:        IBM Linux Ads

Am I the last person to see this?

http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/12_1010081

Last night, I saw a TV Commercial in which various PC Issues were players 
on
a basketball team and, if I understood it, IBM was bragging about its 
newest
player, Linux. (!)

Hmmmm...