{"id":18845,"date":"2013-02-01T10:05:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T15:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18845"},"modified":"2013-02-01T10:05:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T15:05:30","slug":"nicely-played-samsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/nicely-played-samsung\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicely played, Samsung"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Techdirt<\/em>, Timothy Geigner<\/a> tries to talk about something to do with football or advertising:<\/p>\n

It’s almost that time of year again, when many of us lesser beings will gather together to watch super-human men on all manner of PEDs and deer antler urine sprays smack each other around while an oblong leather ball sits somewhere in the background. We’ll leap for the pizza and chili like salmon during mating season while, between whistles, obligatory commercials with Avatar-like production budgets glow at us. That’s right sports fans, it’s [editor redacted] time!<\/p>\n

Wait, hey! What the hell? I said it’s [editor redacted] time! Oh, come on. I can’t say [editor redacted]? Fine, what about a euphemism, like [editor redacted]? No, can’t say that either? Maybe [editor redacted]? Damn it, this is stupid<\/em>. I’m talking about something that rhymes with “Pooper Hole” (heh, got you, editor!).<\/p>\n

Fortunately for our entertainment sensibilities, Samsung decided this year to combine a distaste for trademark stupidity and our concept of advertising being content in this gem of a spot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n