As a result of overexposure due to workday exposure to CNBC,

[camwyn]

I never want to hear the following phrases again:

"key battleground state"
"feeding tube"
"strong, lasting experience"*
"frivolous tchotchkes"**
"the Oracle of Omaha"***
"West Side Stadium"
"Michael Jackson"

Further updates as annoyance warrants.

*Levitra commercials.
**Trading firm commercials.
***Multibajillionaire investor Warren Buffett.

Comments

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

Personally, I don't hear the phrase "frivolous tchotchkes" enough.

[camwyn]

It's part of a line of commercials for a company called BrownCo. "I'd like you to meet my associate, Annual Fees, and this is Quarterly Fees... he's small but watch out!" "Hi, I'm Hidden Charges- pleasure!" "What happened to Execution?" "Had to let him go. A bit too serious... not like this guy!" "Heyyyyy, hey hey hey! Hi, Frivolous Tchotchkes! Mousepad? *holds up mousepad with company logo*"

Been running that commercial since October.

[lasa.livejournal.com]

I actually rather like that phrase. I think I'll use it today.

[colubra.livejournal.com]

The phrase 'Oracle of Omaha' makes me imagine a gargantuan 500-story-tall Ouija planchet being moved across the landscape of Nebraska.

[zed42.livejournal.com]

really? it makes me think of a prophetic mail-order steak...

[colubra.livejournal.com]

I try to avoid thinking of mailorder steak, at all costs.

[aberrantangels]

The phrase 'Oracle of Omaha' makes me imagine a gargantuan 500-story-tall Ouija planchet being moved across the landscape of Nebraska.

By the 900-foot Jesus? 8-)

[colubra.livejournal.com]

Naaah- 5000-foot-tall planchets are too tall for a 900-foot Jesus to use.

Hmm...

[argonautilus.livejournal.com]

Makes me think of some blind woman dressed in white trying to either sell insurance or doing a very old fashioned nature program.

[mephron]

I propose the banning of all TV advertisment for drugs unless they say what the damn thing is actually FOR.

[camwyn]

No, no, they go on to say what Levitra does and is, but before they get to that part there's this woman talking about how Levitra provides a 'strong, lasting experience'.

No, lady. The Iron Man triathlon is a strong, lasting experience. What you are talking about is a reasonably persistent erection being induced by what used to be a blood pressure medication. Go away and stop tainting my language.

[mephron]

Yes, I know that. And I find myself boggled by the magic of what they used to call 'side effects' being used as a sales point.

But can you tell me what Prilosec does, just from the commercial?

[camwyn]

'course not. They don't advertise Prilosec on the channel for twitchy investment bankers.

[mephron]

They advertise an erectile enhancer, yet do not advertise something to deal with heartburn and acid reflux disease.

I am, sadly, unsurprised.

"CNBC! The Channel for Twitchy Investment Bankers. And now, more financial news to make you require heart medication."

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that. Doubly so as this is the first time I've ever heard "the Oracle of Omaha" and I'm rather charmed by it. I have no idea what it means, but it sounds like a good title for an urban fantasy story.

[camwyn]

It's multibajillionaire investor Warren Buffett's nickname. Since there's a big investigation going on about AIG and they think he might have been involved in a deal in 2000 that did weird things with the company balance sheet, CNBC ran a story on him yesterday after several hours of teasers. And every friggin' teaser referred to him as the Oracle of Omaha.

STABBITY DEATH.

[kelathefinn.livejournal.com]

Let me get this straight: In the USA, you forbid children from watching films that show naked breasts (but allow them to watch numerous murders and torture scenes), you forbid advertising condoms or anything to do with prevention of pregnancy, yet now it is allowed to advertise 'errection enhancers'?? (I've always wondered why 'impotency' does not refer to the inability to make women pregnant, but the inability for a man to have an errection.) OK, that proves it: Sex is for making babies, and for the pleasure a man has in it, and only MEN are supposed to enjoy sex.
And 'key battleground state' ??? This is a command for a media show (key the next announcer)??? There is a KEY you hit to change state to 'battleground'? I always thought Bush would find a way to do that somehow...
Why on earth do you watch CNBC?

[camwyn]

First of all, the erectile dysfunction commercials I'm referring to are on cable TV. People have to pay to see this stuff, so the rules for what can be broadcast are different. Also, there are numerous condom commercials on the radio; condom commercials only appear on TV late at night, but they do get played. "Key battleground state" is left over from the election and meant a state that was Very Very Important to win the damned electoral college. Key in the sense of pivotal, not an actual key.

As for why I watch it... there are two television sets in my place of business, one at either end of the main trading desk, and they are ON ALL THE TIME and they are tuned to CNBC ALL THE TIME. I have no choice, until I get an iPod and drown it out.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Camwyn, my dear, I have the answer to all your annoyance, here. Get rid of the cable. I did it, and I've felt quite fine without it. Haven't missed it a bit. I'm hooked on LJ and fanfic anyway; tv just bit into my reading time. I have eps of Blackadder, Malcom In The Middle and Futurama if I have the urge to watch something. eor suggests you use the money you would have spent on cable to buy more Ghostbusters episodes. ;)

[camwyn]

It's not my cable, though. This is at the office. They have the TVs at the office tuned to CNBC ALL THE TIME.

When I come home I hardly ever turn on the telly, and if I do, it's Cartoon Network or Animal Planet. I like Megas XLR and Justice League.

[derien.livejournal.com]

I should have known! Because you are a very sensible woman.

Why would they do that to you at the office? That's evil. Of course I suppose it could be soap operas.

[camwyn]

They're investment people. They want financial news all day, every day. It was enough to drive me mad during election season because they ran commercials for both sides all day, every day, and I think in all that time I heard maybe two positive commericals for anyone other than Chuck Schumer (the senator for NY). The rest were all 'GEORGE BUSH EATS BABIES' and 'JOHN KERRY SACRIFICES VETERANS TO MOOLZEBECH' and things like that.