"Don't Be Fresh Buddy!": Gramps Is Pissed!

[The Blowhard]

January 14, 2003 - Wireless Flash
Oldsters Hate Being Ridiculed By Commercials

MUNCIE, Ind. (Wireless Flash) -- America's senior citizens are raising their canes at TV ads that portray them as feeble and dingy.
According to a study of oldsters by Ball State University, nearly 67 percent hate ads that portray them as "out of touch" geezers or "objects of ridicule" like Grandpa Simpson.

Researchers say the old coots are wise to those tricks played by young advertising execs who make fun of senile seniors in order to appeal to the youth market.

That could be a mistake.

Study director Robert Gustafson says the research suggests that Grandma and Grandpa Q. Public generally have more disposable income than the rest of the family.

The trend is only expected to increase within the next 25 years, but advertisers better change their act pronto -- 61 percent of oldsters are willing to boycott products that use "anti-oldster" ad campaigns.



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THAT'S Amore!

[Aggie]

what's wrong heckler? you don't like when people call you geezer?

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[A.J.]

like Grandpa Simpson.


"Dear Advertisers,

I am disgusted with the way old people are depicted on television. We are not all vibrant, fun-loving sex maniacs. Many of us are bitter, resentful individuals who remember the good old days when entertainment was bland and inoffensive. The following is a list of words I never want to hear on television again.
Number one: Bra.
Number two: Horny.
Number three: Family Jewels.

- Grampa Simpson"

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A Skidmark production.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

"Old man yells at cloud"

"PS: I am not a crackpot!"

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thank you dcpete!

I'm a big wheel down at the cracker factory.

This message was edited by Alice S. Fuzzybutt on 1-14-03 @ 2:23 PM

[The Blowhard]

what's wrong heckler? you don't like when people call you geezer?


I'll show you "Geezer"!
Get me my cane, let me put my teeth in and come here little girl, let "Geezer" teach you a lesson! Ouch, my back hurts.

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