Comments on: Irony… http://neocows.net/blog/2010/01/23/irony/ Just over there Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:24:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Don Sample http://neocows.net/blog/2010/01/23/irony/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Don Sample Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:04:19 +0000 http://neocows.net/blog/2010/01/23/irony/#comment-46 I think it was probably just a coincidence. That "Prayer Cross" add pops up quite regularly, and a majority of the people who call themselves Christians don't believe the fundamentalist anti-christ, rapture claptrap any more than you do. A lot of mainstream Catholics, or Anglicans, or Presbyterians, or whatever might enjoy that show, and still be interested in buying a cross like that. A couple of my favourite commercial placements include one from the Tarantino directed CSI episode that had Nick buried alive. Cut from the ants getting into his coffin to... a commercial for Raid ant poison. And then there was the commercial from a company that made headstones, in the middle of a Buffy episode. I think it was probably just a coincidence. That “Prayer Cross” add pops up quite regularly, and a majority of the people who call themselves Christians don’t believe the fundamentalist anti-christ, rapture claptrap any more than you do. A lot of mainstream Catholics, or Anglicans, or Presbyterians, or whatever might enjoy that show, and still be interested in buying a cross like that.

A couple of my favourite commercial placements include one from the Tarantino directed CSI episode that had Nick buried alive. Cut from the ants getting into his coffin to… a commercial for Raid ant poison. And then there was the commercial from a company that made headstones, in the middle of a Buffy episode.

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