Thursday 16 June, 2005

Fox, Gatorade and Mandy

Filed under: Random thoughts

Although I hate it, I am occasionally caught watching Fox 5 News at 10pm of an evening. (It's 10pm: do you know where your children are?) They have a feature in which they review some weak product for which they've no doubt been slipped some cash - last night's featured item was a crayon that could be used to cover up grey hairs, coming in various colours. The feature is called Gotta Have It? and is succeeded by members of the general public giving their response to this very question. This is then succeeded by the irritating Rosanna Scotto asking the bizarre question: So, Do You Gotta Have It? I seriously don't know where to start with this one.

There's a great Gatorade advert on at the moment highlighting the benefits of Gatorade across a multitude of sports. I felt the voice-over worth sharing:

A sport is a sport. A foul is a foul. A dunk's a dunk. An out's an out, and that's that. A bat's a bat, even if it's flat. Ten feet on the East side is ten feet on the West side. Football is football, unless it's futbol. A win's a win. A loss is a loss. But no matter what, you better come with it or don't come at all, because it's 90 feet to first no matter where home is.

Finally, was the Mandy that Westlife referred to recently the same girl that Barry Manilow crooned about all those years ago? She certainly shares some similar traits - giving without takin', kissing and stopping them (Barry or one of the Westlife boys) from shakin'. She certainly sounds like the same gal, but she must be getting a little haggard by now, and I would've thought those Westlife boys could do better for themselves.


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Colouring crayons for your hair sounds bizarre. It reminds me of that hair-in-a-can stuff that Jimmy White and Graham Gooch used to advertise on the back of Sunday papers, in which a Before picture showed a glum-looking Jimmy or Graham, complete with bald spot, yet the application of a swift squirt of whatever-it-was-called brought a smile back to their face and a bonceful of barnet. I imagine it's sort of a cross between silly string and Hammerite.

I just clicked on the link to Rosanna Scotto and found Gotta Have It on one of the drop downs where, in amongst self-heating lattes and Inchworm Shoes (shoes which grow with your kids' feet) , there's a link to something called Lip Fusion, which operates as follows: "Tiny, dehydrated, marine collagen micro spheres are instantly absorbed by the lips, and seek out the body’s natural moisture. As soon as the spheres become re-hydrated, they plump and hold onto the moisture they’ve collected, creating a mild "swelling" of the lip tissue. The result is fuller, smoother, perfectly plumped lips in seconds. Results can last for up to 48 hours."

What's the world coming to? Aside from sounding unnervingly similar to Sea Monkeys, any product which guarantees a swelling that lasts for 48 hours is asking for abuse.

Posted by Steve, 5:20am, Thursday 16 June 2005

Your first mistake is watching Channel 5 news at 10pm. Pls switch to Channel 11. Help Me Howard is much better. Cheers

Posted by WPIX Fan, 6:27am, Thursday 16 June 2005
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