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I won’t pretend to know a lot about football. I’ve picked up bits and pieces from my days in first year of painting “GO MAC” on my stomach and waving spirit sticks at college ball games; and from groaning about Sundays filled with hours upon hours of football with the boy. That being said, I still love to watch the Superbowl – boys in tight pants, a good excuse to have a few drinks, and an even better excuse to forget about the word “calorie” and eat an entire plate of nachos by myself (oops!).
Photo Courtesy Reuters
The game was a good one; and I’mnot even sure I have the words for the last quarter – I was actually fully captivated by the game at that point. I wish I had been on Bourbon Street last night! What a party that must have been: Mardi Gras season + Superbowl Win? Sign me up!
But the highlight for me was not the Simpsons Coke Commercial (where was the Polar Bear?), or seeing The Who perform at halftime.
It wasn’t seeing Drew Brees, the Saints quarterback, holding his adorable son on the field after winning.
And no, it wasn’t the Free-Willy-Meets-The-Hangover Commercial; nor was it the Bud Light “Lost” Spoof (despite the fact Lost is, hands down, the best thing on TV right now).
It wasn’t seeing the Superbowl Snack Stadium and wondering if I was enough parts Martha Stewart to make it (that experiment will have to wait until next year).
And it wasn’t even reading celebrity tweets during the game – seriously, Paris Hilton had a Superbowl Party? And why do I find this surprising?
No, for me, the best part – and I do mean my favourite part – was a little commercial by a company that’s name has become a verb, and who I’m not even sure needed the advertising… but sure could afford it.
My heart melted. My eyes misted. And I’ll be damned if I didn’t admit I’ve probably watched it a hundred times since yesterday. It’s so incredibly simple, yet so poignant. As if I needed another reason to love Google – but damn, I love this commercial. ♥
**As a sidenote: If you missed any of the commercials (and I’d have to ask why – take your bathroom break DURING the game, people, not during the commercials! ;) you can catch them all here.
Totally irrelevant lunchtime survey questions thanks to Quirk Classics. Answer them yourself on their blog post and you could win some cool, quirky prizes.
1) What are you listening to right now? (Music, boring meeting, The Voices, etc)
Absolutely nothing. Dead air, the sound of me typing, and the sound of my coworker at the editing suite (which consists of the occasional typed word, and mostly mouse clicks)
2) What’s the email sign-off that makes you cringe? (Cheers!, Best, xoxo…?)
“Regards” (and any variation thereof) Eeeeeuuuucccch! So formal, so blah, so… ick. No sign off also bothers me, if it’s someone I don’t know sending me a business email.
3) What is the saddest lunch you ever ate at work? (Ramen, ketchup sandwich, nothing?)
Nothing. Quite frequently. Very often I’m too busy for lunch at work… on those days if it’s not “nothing” for lunch, it’s a chocolate bar out of the vending machine, tap water, and a tic tac.
4) If you were a kind of tape, which one would you be and why? (Scotch, packing, duct?)
Double sided scotch tape… because it sticks to everything, and itself, and is really irritating to use. If I have to be boring tape, I’d want to be the most irritating variety possible.
5) Write the most interesting / ridiculous / cryptic message on one of your Post-Its.
I actually have a wall of post its tracking story ideas… most are cryptic to anyone other than me, and/or unreadable thanks to the scrawl I do when writing fast. Examples? “HST Update”, “Oxy. TF call CA”, “Dog Park *insert email address here*”… or, they’re covered with doodles from being on the phone… then proudly displayed as “art work” on my wall.
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And on that note, my lunch is now finished (today I had a lunch! Granted, it was a sandwich from Tim Hortons I impulse-bought while getting coffee because I knew I wouldn’t have time to go home and make lunch today)… back to working.
Have you seen the new Excel commercials – the one where a really cute doughnut, coffee, and onion follow a guy around?
Awh!
They can follow me around any day – seriously! If adorable characters like this really followed you around after you ate something, I’d never chew gum again!
I think Wrigley’s should put these cuties on their packaging – it might be enough to convince me to try Excel instead of my standard Dentyne Ice!
