<p>ILoveBrown - it’s scissor-sympathizers like you who would lead our nation into peril. Sure they look benevolent – now. But our intelligence supports the conclusion that they have secret plans to attack us. I’m afraid you’ve fallen for the scissor-appeasing PR of the Discoverites. ;)</p>
<p>Well, if it reassures you at all, I’m sticking with my Visa card.</p>
<p>I thought the Discover commercial was clever when I first saw it, but now that you mention it, there is a rather sinister aspect to it all. Really, who in their right mind would trust hordes of scissors, snip, snip, snipping their way across the landscape? The more I think about it, the creepier it seems. Someone’s bound to tap into this repressed fear, and make a movie in which common everyday items all over town start to animate and get “ideas”.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, how many complaint Discover Card has received about this ad, I wonder… How soon before they pull the ad?</p>
<p>I can actually imagine a really funny SNL bit on the ad, can’t you? How long do you think it will be before they come up with one??</p>
<p>I don’t know if this is just a local ad or whether it’s national, but the one I absolutely can’t stand is the “Flash That Grill” ad for Ford trucks. When it first came out, it had this hip hop group rapping a little ditty about flashing his grill. The lead singer in the baggy clothes was doing that spazzy thing with the hands that they all do (what IS that, anyway?) and the girls in the background who were barely dressed were moving their booties to the music and adoring the singer with the bright shiny grill in his mouth. Now I hate rap and hip hop music to begin with, but there’s no way I’d buy a Ford truck after seeing that ad. Turned me right off.</p>
<p>After a few weeks, they dropped the rap song and the music video, but they still use the background music of a female singing the line, “I like the way you look when you flash that grill”. I can’t wait till this ad runs its course. Give me dancing scissors any day.</p>