Comments on: The Mayor gets the better of Buffy http://soreeyes.org/archive/2004/04/30/the-mayor-gets-the-better-of-buffy/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:23:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Gary Farber http://soreeyes.org/archive/2004/04/30/the-mayor-gets-the-better-of-buffy/#comment-23916 Gary Farber Sun, 02 May 2004 03:17:01 +0000 http://soreeyes.org/archive/2004/04/30/the-mayor-gets-the-better-of-buffy/#comment-23916 Try <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=gellar+mcdonalds+ban+%22burger+king%22+&btnG=Search" rel="nofollow">this</a>, he offered helpfully. I wish I could get a job doing websearch. Back in the day, on rec.arts.sf.fandom, they used to refer to "farbering" something, rather than "googling," he noted immodestly. Of course, that started before Google. Try this, he offered helpfully.

I wish I could get a job doing websearch.

Back in the day, on rec.arts.sf.fandom, they used to refer to “farbering” something, rather than “googling,” he noted immodestly. Of course, that started before Google.

]]> By: John http://soreeyes.org/archive/2004/04/30/the-mayor-gets-the-better-of-buffy/#comment-23915 John Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:40:50 +0000 http://soreeyes.org/archive/2004/04/30/the-mayor-gets-the-better-of-buffy/#comment-23915 I did google for the story, but all I got were a dozen or so repetitions of the story I related, which is presumably included in the electronic press kit for Scooby-Doo 2 judging by the way it's repeated almost word for word at every site and seems to have popped up over the last fortnight. I can see that a groundbreaking direct-comparison ad might have ticked McDonalds off, but I'm not sure banning the kids would be justified. (If I were SMG I might just go into a McDonalds to see whether anyone would feel like buying themselves some bad PR by enforcing the ban.) I did google for the story, but all I got were a dozen or so repetitions of the story I related, which is presumably included in the electronic press kit for Scooby-Doo 2 judging by the way it’s repeated almost word for word at every site and seems to have popped up over the last fortnight.

I can see that a groundbreaking direct-comparison ad might have ticked McDonalds off, but I’m not sure banning the kids would be justified. (If I were SMG I might just go into a McDonalds to see whether anyone would feel like buying themselves some bad PR by enforcing the ban.)

]]> By: Gary Farber http://soreeyes.org/archive/2004/04/30/the-mayor-gets-the-better-of-buffy/#comment-23914 Gary Farber Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:40:51 +0000 http://soreeyes.org/archive/2004/04/30/the-mayor-gets-the-better-of-buffy/#comment-23914 I don't feel like Googling on it at present, but I seem to recall seeing Gellar talk about this in some lengthy interview -- possibly the one hour <i>E!</i> one she did a few years ago -- and I vaguely recall that it was a rare "direct comparison" ad in which they directly dissed McDonalds. It may have been that it was the precedent making one in which it was the First Time one Big Corp. mentioned another one's product by name (in America, that is) and said it wasn't as good, resulting in a law suit. But I may be All Wrong. (I don't think so, thinking about it for a few seconds more.) I don’t feel like Googling on it at present, but I seem to recall seeing Gellar talk about this in some lengthy interview — possibly the one hour E! one she did a few years ago — and I vaguely recall that it was a rare “direct comparison” ad in which they directly dissed McDonalds. It may have been that it was the precedent making one in which it was the First Time one Big Corp. mentioned another one’s product by name (in America, that is) and said it wasn’t as good, resulting in a law suit.

But I may be All Wrong. (I don’t think so, thinking about it for a few seconds more.)

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