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#1 undo

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 07:42 PM

Big heads pasted onto small bodies.

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Is this supposed to be funny? Cute?

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Everytime I see this on a book cover, in a magazine advertisement, online on animated banner ad, my blood pressure rises and I feel like bursting. This is a great way for these companies and organizations to make sure that they'll never get my money. Obnoxious, stupid, modern commercial art at its most lowbrow and uncreative... I can't stand it anymore.

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 07:44 PM

That eBay lady looks like she has some horrible disease. And are those kids all hydrocephalics?
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#3 Binko

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 07:51 PM

You know, I've never noticed this trend before, but it is annoying as all fuck from what you've posted. I'm sure that now, in the next few weeks, I'm going to notice this everywhere and be just as irritated as you.

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 09:00 PM

Blame this guy

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 09:36 PM

the new lanvin ads too.

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 09:43 PM

I remember being hungover as hell one Sunday morning in the grocery store in the late '90's. I rounded the corner of one aisle only to run smack-dab into a life-size standee of Ditka for a Cheez-it promo, similar in style to the Easter photo that undo posted above. I mean, Ditka was right in my grill and it really freaked me out. Yeah, these are bad.
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Posted 25 May 2006 - 09:45 PM

Hi, I know I'm tired now. This is what I thought I saw.

I rounded the corner of one aisle only to run smack-dab into a life-size standee of Ditka for a Cheez-it porno


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"Man, all the troops do these days is bitch, bitch, die unnecessarily, and bitch."-Heidi Williamson, Teacher

"What is up with boca burgers? I mean, for real, if you're all anti-meat because you think it's cruel and akin to murder, why do you make all your food look just like the damn thing? I mean, do you walk around with your peace gun or burn a cross for tolerance? I don't think so."-Ben

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 10:37 PM

I remember being hungover as hell one Sunday morning in the grocery store in the late '90's. I rounded the corner of one aisle only to run smack-dab into a life-size standee of Ditka for a Cheez-it promo, similar in style to the Easter photo that undo posted above.

I mean, Ditka was right in my grill and it really freaked me out. Yeah, these are bad.

A little off-topic, but thought Ditka was great parodying himself in Kicking and Screaming.
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Posted 25 May 2006 - 10:56 PM


I remember being hungover as hell one Sunday morning in the grocery store in the late '90's. I rounded the corner of one aisle only to run smack-dab into a life-size standee of Ditka for a Cheez-it promo, similar in style to the Easter photo that undo posted above.

I mean, Ditka was right in my grill and it really freaked me out. Yeah, these are bad.

A little off-topic, but thought Ditka was great parodying himself in Kicking and Screaming.



Agreed. I saw it this week and liked him in his role as "Juice Box Boy." Damn, I need a job.
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Posted 26 May 2006 - 12:27 AM

Blame this guy...

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Posted 26 May 2006 - 12:35 AM

This sucked when it started becoming popular again, and years later it still sucks. Fuck chibis.

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Posted 26 May 2006 - 07:46 AM

Well it's different when it's something that's drawn. How many cartoon characters have heads that are disproportionately large compared to the rest of their body? 50%? 75%? 90%? It's this cheap cut and paste technique with real photographs that gets on my nerves.

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Posted 26 May 2006 - 07:59 AM

I remember being hungover as hell one Sunday morning in the grocery store in the late '90's.


Completely off-topic, but that sentence right there should be the first line of a song. I'm not sure whether it should some kind of spoken-word-verse-to-sung-chorus thing, or some kind of Good Charlotte crap, but damn, that's a great sentence.
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Posted 26 May 2006 - 08:03 AM

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The really creepy thing about this one is that with the three kids to the right it's normal or near-normal heads shot from a certain perspective, but the one on the left definitely has a head so huge she wouldn't be able to stand. Mixing normal-heads and big-heads is especially strange.

Well it's different when it's something that's drawn. How many cartoon characters have heads that are disproportionately large compared to the rest of their body? 50%? 75%? 90%? It's this cheap cut and paste technique with real photographs that gets on my nerves.

Yeah seriously guys this has nothing to do with Ludacris, who is great obviously. Bring him up if Undo talks about oversized arms.

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Posted 26 May 2006 - 08:15 AM


I remember being hungover as hell one Sunday morning in the grocery store in the late '90's.


Completely off-topic, but that sentence right there should be the first line of a song. I'm not sure whether it should some kind of spoken-word-verse-to-sung-chorus thing, or some kind of Good Charlotte crap, but damn, that's a great sentence.

Let's go alt.country with that line.

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Posted 26 May 2006 - 08:22 AM

That eBay lady looks like she has some horrible disease.


Ya, its called anorexia. Or Polio maybe. Wanting your advertisement to include such disease-stricken people: Creepy.
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Posted 26 May 2006 - 08:37 AM

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Posted 31 August 2006 - 07:34 AM

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What is it with women? Always so moody. Always wanting their chocolate, too.

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Posted 31 August 2006 - 07:54 AM



I remember being hungover as hell one Sunday morning in the grocery store in the late '90's.


Completely off-topic, but that sentence right there should be the first line of a song. I'm not sure whether it should some kind of spoken-word-verse-to-sung-chorus thing, or some kind of Good Charlotte crap, but damn, that's a great sentence.

Let's go alt.country with that line.





I think Kris Kristofferson wrote that line about 30 years ago...
"even boarding in non-signature-view mode i feel your lists of concerts (no one cares) last.fm bullshit (ditto) and oversized .jpgs (srsly fuck off) may distract from my superior posts."

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Posted 31 August 2006 - 10:59 AM

Rudayo, are you in advertising??Posted ImageNow, all you dudes shut the hell up and give me some chocolate!

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