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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Serenity on January 08, 2009, 01:00:24 PM
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I was watching TV last night, and I saw this bizarre commercial with this old man just asking this woman all sorts of insane questions, and she keeps getting them right. This usually turns out to be a netflix commercial, but this time it seemed darker. Finally at the end, all it says is: "Knowledge Generation Bureau". The words fade away, and the letters "KGB" come together in a chevron. I was like "WTF?!?" I researched it, and this seems to be kinda like google but more hands on. But really, who the hell would pick a name like "Knowledge Generation Bureau" and then make it worse by shortening it to KGB IN THEIR COMMERCIAL?!?
http://kgb.com/#
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...But really, who the hell would pick a name like "Knowledge Generation Bureau" and then make it worse by shortening it to KGB IN THEIR COMMERCIAL?!?...
Because the communists will use the website which drives up the advertising value for cleaning products?
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Because the marketing plan works. Proof? we're now talking about it on this forum. :)
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Because the marketing plan works. Proof? we're now talking about it on this forum. :)
Roger that..I wish I could come up with something like that...but then I wouldn't be selling steel pipe to concrete pumping companies would I?
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I was watching TV last night, and I saw this bizarre commercial with this old man just asking this woman all sorts of insane questions, and she keeps getting them right. This usually turns out to be a netflix commercial, but this time it seemed darker. Finally at the end, all it says is: "Knowledge Generation Bureau". The words fade away, and the letters "KGB" come together in a chevron. I was like "WTF?!?" I researched it, and this seems to be kinda like google but more hands on. But really, who the hell would pick a name like "Knowledge Generation Bureau" and then make it worse by shortening it to KGB IN THEIR COMMERCIAL?!?
http://kgb.com/#
In San Diego 101.5 KGB FM always uses "KGB" in their commercials and a former SD mayor even went to Moscow wearing of the radio station's jackets with their "KGB" logo emblazened on the front.
Honestly, what is the big deal with using "KGB"?
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I laughed alittle then forgot till you brought it back into conversation.
(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m152/garyjean/ZS-KGB_2013.jpg)
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Because the communists will use the website which drives up the advertising value for cleaning products?
You must be referring to the Yankee Dog Capitalist Communists...
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Honestly, what is the big deal with using "KGB"?
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Its not the use of it, its the context. A commercial of obscure information that makes two people seem like they are all-knowing geniuses, advertising a company that calls itself the Knowledge Generation Bureau. It sounds like the kind of thing the REAL KGB would do.
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to me KGB only means one thing, and I don't smoke that stuff anymore.... :uhoh
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I laughed alittle then forgot till you brought it back into conversation.
(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m152/garyjean/ZS-KGB_2013.jpg)
:rofl :rofl
I have actually been a passenger in that plane :rock
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The KGB never went away. It's now called the FSB, which really isn't as snappy as KGB.
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You must be referring to the Yankee Dog Capitalist Communists...
No, communists in general.
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because it will generate talk. just like you're showing here. it will stick in peoples heads. it's free advertisement.
very smart actually.
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Its not the use of it, its the context. A commercial of obscure information that makes two people seem like they are all-knowing geniuses, advertising a company that calls itself the Knowledge Generation Bureau. It sounds like the kind of thing the REAL KGB would do.
Again, what's the big deal? Like I mentioned earlier about KGB 101.5 FM radio station, they use "KGB" in the same context and have been doing so for close to 30 years. It's no big deal and you're making a mountain out of a mole hill.
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Methinks cap needs to read earlier posts :aok
Also, don't we have enough search engines? :(
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Again, what's the big deal? Like I mentioned earlier about KGB 101.5 FM radio station, they use "KGB" in the same context and have been doing so for close to 30 years. It's no big deal and you're making a mountain out of a mole hill.
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The "big deal" is gradualy diminishing over time but is still present in today's society. I think it has to do with the whole baby boom generation still being active in society after being raised during a particular moment in time when our country was scared Shatnerless by communism spreading quickly around the world. It didn't help that our government put in an effort to paint all communists as people who would rape our mothers and kill inocent children.
What I don't understand are the nuts who still think communism will rise soon and kill us all. Communism is dead, dyeing, or has morphed into something that isn't communism by it's own definition anymore. We have more to worry about today in this world with power-hungry tribes of desert nomads running around with surpluss soviet-era AKs and RPGs than we do with communists.
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I live in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough...
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The "big deal" is gradualy diminishing over time but is still present in today's society. I think it has to do with the whole baby boom generation still being active in society after being raised during a particular moment in time when our country was scared Shatnerless by communism spreading quickly around the world. It didn't help that our government put in an effort to paint all communists as people who would rape our mothers and kill inocent children.
What I don't understand are the nuts who still think communism will rise soon and kill us all. Communism is dead, dyeing, or has morphed into something that isn't communism by it's own definition anymore. We have more to worry about today in this world with power-hungry tribes of desert nomads running around with surpluss soviet-era AKs and RPGs than we do with communists.
Considering Serenity was born after the Cold War ended and the Wall came down in Berlin, I think his 'shock' at seeing a company using 'KBG' in an ad campaign is, rather a little bit like crying the sky is falling or calling wolf.
Having myself grow up during the Cold War and almost daily reminders about the scourge of the Red Menace and duck and cover drills in grade school, I frankly don't see any issues with a company using this sort of ad campaign. Sometimes Serenity gets his feathers in a ruffle over nothing, he's just a kid after all.
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Again, what's the big deal? Like I mentioned earlier about KGB 101.5 FM radio station, they use "KGB" in the same context and have been doing so for close to 30 years. It's no big deal and you're making a mountain out of a mole hill.
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(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa132/mrose_larochelle/kgbcard.jpg)
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Again, what's the big deal? Like I mentioned earlier about KGB 101.5 FM radio station, they use "KGB" in the same context and have been doing so for close to 30 years. It's no big deal and you're making a mountain out of a mole hill.
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I'm not shocked per-say. I'm not shouting conspiracy theories. I just see it as being on the same par as a demolition company naming themselves something like Al Queda or Hamaas (SP?). It's interesting. Its new. Its sort of unusual, at least out here.
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I'm not shocked per-say. I'm not shouting conspiracy theories. I just see it as being on the same par as a demolition company naming themselves something like Al Queda or Hamaas (SP?). It's interesting. Its new. Its sort of unusual, at least out here.
Oh jeebus...are you really that serious?
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Oh jeebus...are you really that serious?
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Well, ugh, its hard to put into words my feeling. i don't see it as sacrilegious, what I meant by THAT comparrison is that Al Queda is well known for the destruction of the towers. Hamaas (SP?) is known for bombings. Therefore, naming a demolition company out of them would be fitting, but surprising.
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In San Diego 101.5 KGB FM always uses "KGB" in their commercials and a former SD mayor even went to Moscow wearing of the radio station's jackets with their "KGB" logo emblazened on the front.
Honestly, what is the big deal with using "KGB"?
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KGB with the DSC in the mornin, love it!, grew up on that and mark and brain on KLOS in LA, great livin where i do, get both la and sd stations.
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Hamaas (SP?)
Hamas*
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Dunno if they're called the FSB now or not, but when the USSR fell apart the KGB was renamed the SVR... It's a more "people friendly" name for a group that attaches a car battery to said peoples' gonads.
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Quiet down or he'll stick it to you!
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb89/langerhans2033/TeddyKGB.gif)
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KGB with the DSC in the mornin, love it!, grew up on that and mark and brain on KLOS in LA, great livin where i do, get both la and sd stations.
LOL! Used to love listening to them on the way to work, I still remember the joke they pulled with the space shuttle landing at Montgomery Field.
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