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I wombat - 2005-01-27 17:59:20
Well those don't look like exactly current photos, but I liked Ms. Pleshette when I was a kid, I think it was partly the name, part plush, part flesh, and the femine ette to finish it off.
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Bob - 2005-01-28 02:01:42
Huh... I can't get excited about criticizing "Sally Forth" when there's comics like "Cathy" and "For Better or Worse" and "Opus" and "Prickly City" in our newspaper. Although I must admit I don't even enjoy "Sally Forth" as much as I like getting driven crazy by any number of woeful things about "Mary Worth", and how our paper must be one of the only ones that buys it as a daily strip, since it spends all week in clunky reiteration so that it doesn't advance anything that next Sunday's strip doesn't. Bad bad zen;; mesmerizingly unmesmerizing. It does do the best purposefully bad "shock waves", though.
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Sharps - 2005-01-28 13:16:39
Slightly related tangent to the "crushingly obvious exposition" theme: a couple of years ago there was an idiotic radio ad for beer where two guys are talking about their favorite beer ads, which of course were made up by the ad copy writer ("Remember the rollerskating waitress?!" "Dude, that what a classic!"). Then one dude says "Remember the one with the animal doing cute tricks?" which would always irritate me whenever I heard the ad, which was like 40 times a day. Yes, there is something known as 'cute animal tricks', like on late night TV. But if you were talking a about a specific ad with a specific animal doing tricks, you would say "Remember the one with the dog" or "cat" or "monkey" doing cute tricks. People just don't talk that way. OK, I know this is a pet peeve--ah ha!--and probably not such a big deal in the grand scheme of things when there's a war in Iraq, but lazy ad copy writing bugs me, OK?
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Paula - 2005-01-28 14:26:10
The advertising copy that bugs me most is the Starbucks compilation CD ad: "like a mixed tape from your favorite artist."
A "mixed" tape? Ad-man, it's "mix tape."
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Sharps - 2005-01-28 14:43:19
The Starbucks ad guy may be trying to ill-advisedly counterbalance a world full of cheap, hand-drawn signs offering "ice tea" and "toss salad". And why does he say "like a mixed tape.."? I've seen those things. That's exactly what it is. A mix tape (CD) from your favorite artist. Why does he say "like"? I'd be immediately suspicious if I went to buy a vacuum cleaner and the salesman said "Buy this one. It's like having a vacuum cleaner!"
It reminds me of the old line: "I could fall in love with a someone like you. Not you, but someone like you."
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Paula - 2005-01-28 14:52:40
Well, I think it's only a facsimile of a mix tape because the selections have to clear their licensing department, have to be in print, etc., and the CDs don't have the spoken-word part ("girl, I've made you this mixed tape for your sensual delight. Let me take you to the upper realms of ecstasy with my fine slow jams.")
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Sharps - 2005-01-29 14:16:39
Heh. You're channeling Smoov B.
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Rebecca - 2005-02-01 08:50:33
Ms. Pleshette is also the voice of the witchy twin sisters in the English version of Spirited Away, which is an amazing (but definitely scary) movie if you haven't seen it, good for kids (7+ or thereabouts) and grownups. Check out the rest of the voice cast, too!
http://disneyvideos.disney.go.com/moviefinder/products/2978103.html
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