A new campaign

The Ad Council, if they wanted to promote awareness of sleep deprivation, especially around exam times around college campuses, they could use a campaign like this:

You know you're up too late when... (insert something here)
...you see the librarians change the dirt in the fake flower pots
...the books start to become blurry even though you're wearing the same glasses you always wear
something like that.

The tagline could be like "Get some sleep" or something like that.

A total cop-out

This would be such a cheap cop-out way to get people to come to your store... but a company could say that there's like, free pizza for each customer or something, but when they get there, they get something that looks like pizza, but is really like a business card or something!

I dunno, just my mind rambling after I was promised free Bandito's in Fondren at 10:00 but went up there and didn't see any...

Unlikely stuff that would be sold on the Black Market

Chick-Fil-A. Why? If it was sold on Sunday, it could be considered Black Market stuff! I've heard that a lot of people who admit that they're practically addicted to Chick-Fil-A are really angry that they're closed on Sunday. If people sold the stuff on Sunday under the table, that'd be a viable black market, if you ask me!

Language

Have you ever tried to imagine what it's like to not know English, or whatever your native language is? It's hard, isn't it? I mean, to not know the language that you were taught even before your first memory... that's difficult. But I guess the best way to do so is to listen to a language that you cannot understand... but still, try to imagine what it's like to not know your own language... it's quite a mental exercise.

Thank God for the rational man standard...

Without us using that, Red Bull would have had their asses sued into oblivion for failing to sprout wings on the backs of those who drink it. Wings that, as represented in the commercials, allow for flight.

Though I can, unfortunately, imagine someone initiating such a lawsuit. It was probably laughed out of court because that would be utterly idiotic, otherwise I think we all would have heard of it.

Although... that could be an interesting thought for an ad campaign... I know Coke Zero did those stupid series of ads where Coke sued Coke Zero for infringement on their taste, even though they're both made by the same company. Or those Bud Light commercials that said "We originally gave our product the effect of making the consumer fly upon consumption, but we later abandoned that idea."

I dunno, maybe a campaign where they say "Red Bull once gave you wings but nobody could fly with them, they were so small. So we decided to alter the formula so there aren't any... permanent side effects." while showing a guy walking on the streets with totally useless wings on his back.

If the iPod didn't do as well as it did...

You know how Kleenex went from being something you use to remove makeup to being the thing you blow your nose with, something which came from observing how the consumers actually use the product?

Well, don't follow that advice if people started using iPods as paperweights... well, not only because those would be freaking expensive paperweights but because that usually means the brand failed miserably!

Collleges should...

I think I would very much like to see a college with a place of worship for at least the top three or four major world religions... A Christian church, a Muslim mosque, a Jewish synagogue, and perhaps even a Hindu temple. If that isn't enough of a way to attract multicultural students and students of many religions, then I don't know what will. It's actually something I'd like to see... somehow, I think that would be quite an interesting thing. Though I think it'd have to be at a newly founded college or maybe at a college that has a lot of money to spend on such a big project.