rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (07/13/84)
A while back I posted a comment on Kronenbourg's series of silly
commercials which sort of hang around a "better, not bitter" slogan
(observing at the time that beer is SUPPOSED to be bitter).
They've got a couple more interesting things. The commercials are done by
someone affecting an English accent. One of them has a comment about
abominable English beer, comparing it to swamp water. De gustibus non est
disputandum, but I wonder how CAMRA feels about laying that sort of epithet
on a beer just because it's cask (naturally) conditioned?
Then there's the interesting end to the commercial, where the affected
English accent stumbles over the new-world name "Connecticut" quite
believably, but murders the totally English name "Greenwich" (it comes out
as Green-witch).
I know, it's mind-rot for the masses, but I wish they'd be a little careful
about beer. Is nothing sacred???
--
Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086
...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.schnitzl@hplabsb.UUCP (07/13/84)
A while back I posted a comment on Kronenbourg's series of silly
commercials which sort of hang around a "better, not bitter" slogan
(observing at the time that beer is SUPPOSED to be bitter).
They've got a couple more interesting things. The commercials are done by
someone affecting an English accent. One of them has a comment about
abominable English beer, comparing it to swamp water. De gustibus non est
disputandum, but I wonder how CAMRA feels about laying that sort of epithet
on a beer just because it's cask (naturally) conditioned?
Then there's the interesting end to the commercial, where the affected
English accent stumbles over the new-world name "Connecticut" quite
believably, but murders the totally English name "Greenwich" (it comes out
as Green-witch).
I know, it's mind-rot for the masses, but I wish they'd be a little careful
about beer. Is nothing sacred???
--
Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086
...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.
--
"Tune in next week,
Same Bat-time,
Same Bat-channel,"
Ray Schnitzler, HP Labs
uucp: ...!hplabs!schnitzl
arpa: schnitzl.hplabs@rand-relayschnitzl@hplabsb.UUCP (07/13/84)
Isn't the guy affecting the English accent John Cleese? -- "Tune in next week, Same Bat-time, Same Bat-channel," Ray Schnitzler, HP Labs uucp: ...!hplabs!schnitzl arpa: schnitzl.hplabs@rand-relay
pdt@mhuxv.UUCP (tyma) (07/16/84)
If I'm not mistaken, the "guy affecting the English accent" is none other than John Cleese, ex of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, a certified Briton. Paul Tyma ------------------------------------------------------ "Look, I'm telling you this bleedin' parrot is demised..."
johnnyr@ihuxa.UUCP (John R. Rosenberg) (07/16/84)
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That "supposedly English accent" is the voice
of John Cleese of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers
fame. Nothing fake about that British comedian's
voice. As for mis-pronouncing Greenwich, Connecticut
perhaps it's a subtle jibe at "us colonials"
JRRmaggie2@iwpba.UUCP (maggie2) (07/16/84)
>>A while back I posted a comment on Kronenbourg's series of silly >>commercials which sort of hang around a "better, not bitter" slogan >>(observing at the time that beer is SUPPOSED to be bitter). >> >>They've got a couple more interesting things. The commercials are done by >>someone affecting an English accent... >> >>Then there's the interesting end to the commercial, where the affected >>English accent stumbles over the new-world ... I know that this doesn't really have anything to do with beer but: The "affected" English accent belongs to an Englishman from the group (ex-group?) Monty Python. John Cleese is his name, I think (the one who was in "Fawlty Towers"). By the way - I kinda like the commercials - at least they're different!
marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand) (07/18/84)
John Cleese it most certainly is! I think the commercials are magic (shame about the beer, though). As for the names, isn't it a dig at such inconsistencies of pronumciation between Greenwich and Norwich (both in Konnettikut, I believe)