Avatar Contest For The Week Of 09/06/06

[Mac Danny]

Wow, This is my first time suggesting an avatar theme.


First here are the rules...

A quick refresher from Typo Lad. READ IT:

I just want to start with a quick rundown on what the Av contest is for newer posters.

The person who wins the last contest picks a theme, the posters all make an avatar according to what fits the theme. Come Tuesday of the next week, we vote on whose is the “best”. The only prize is that the winner gets to pick the next contest.

Please don’t suggest avatars! People like thinking stuff up themselves and it’s frowned upon. If you think of a neat Avatar idea, why not take it yourself?

Now This week's Theme is SPOKESPERSONS! This can be a person or people or animal that is used in commercials to hock product. All kinds of commercials count. Even *shuddder* Infomercials.

Enjoy!

[borateen]

My entry is Subway's new shill, Jon Lovitz! I've been a fan for years, and I'm always mildly amused by the commercials.

[Dennis K]

Dibs on Bob Dole...avatar to follow

http://www.iflipflop.com/gotwood2_sm.jpg

[Cei-U!]

Here's good old Barney Rubble shilling for Winston cigarettes back in the day.

Cei-U!
I summon the yabba-dabba-d'oh!

[thehod]

He liked it so much he bought the company. It's Victor Kiam.




And at this point take myself out of the running, as I'll be driving around Ireland next week, so I won't be around for voting.

But I enjoy playing nevertheless.

[Dreadstar]

Here's good old Barney Rubble shilling for Winston cigarettes back in the day.

BASTARD!

Damn you're fast.

[Typo Lad]

Dibs on the geico gecko.

[Dreadstar]

I'm in with John Cameron Swayze.

Shill for Camel, Texaco and one of the all-time most famous ad-series' for Timex.

"It takes a licking and keeps on ticking."




I wanted so much to find a pic of him holding up a Timex to the camera, but couldn't find one that showed both him and the watch with any clarity.

[Mac Danny]

Here it is.. World record holder for talking faster than a speeding bullet!

John Moschitta Jr.

He shilled Micro Machines, fed Ex and was the voice of the transformer Blur!

http://www.wasteoftechnology.com/images/motw/johnmoschitta/Moschita.jpg

[Forefinger]

Lobo was the spokesperson for the Almighty Church of Frag that he started to rip off old and stupid people, televangelist style.

[Slam_Bradley]

The ultimate in manly spokesmen. The Marlboro Man.

http://adage.com/century/graphics/campaign_marlboro.jpg

[tricksterpup]

http://www.9lives.com/wallpapers/9lives_wallpaper800_1.jpg
Morris the Cat..

Actually can somone make me a flashing gif of the 9 lives logo and then Morris's head?

[JolietJake]

I'll enter with the down-home folksiness of Frank Bartles & Ed Jaymes, the respectively chatty and silent pitchmen for Bartles & Jaymes winecoolers from 1986 to 1991.

http://www.tvacres.com/bartles_jaymes_small.jpg

[Guapo Méndez]

Dibs on Tony Little.

http://images.emidigitalmedia.com/cover/thumb/724358270921.jpg
Technique!

[Bouncing Boy]

I give you the Maytag Repairmen!

First there was Jesse White, the one I remember from my childhood.
http://www.tvacres.com/images/maytag_repairman1.jpg

Then in 1989 Gordon Jump (best remembered as Arthur "Big Guy" Carlson from WKRP: In Cinncinatti) replaced him.
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/0f/250px-Maytag_repairman.jpg

Then in 2003 when Gordon Jump retired (he died not long after), he was replaced by Hardy Rawls and was given an apprentice played by Mark Devine (I'm not sure if Ol' Lonely in that pic is Rawls or Jump, because I seem to remember Jump being in a couple comercials with the apprentice, and the picture is too small for me to tell which one it is)
http://www.characterweb.com/images/CaseMaytag.gif

[JerrBear81]

Dibs on Billy Mays of Oxyclean!

http://www.princeroy.org/Billy_Mays.jpg

[Valmore]

Nobody ever made me want to drink Pepsi more than Cindy Crawford.

[Mike Smash!]

Dibs on Troy McClure...

[Valmore]

Dibs on Troy McClure...

You might remember me from other dibs calls like, "You Can Call Me Al" and "Lewis and Clark Versus The West: The Road to Victory."

By the way, here's an avatar for ya!

[K'Nort]

How many times has this happened to you? You have a bass, and you're trying to find an exciting new way to prepare it for the dinner table. You could scale the bass, remove the bass' tail, head and bones, and serve the fish as you would any other fish dinner. But why bother, now that you can use Rovco's amazing new kitchen tool, the Super Bass-o-Matic '76. Yes, fish-eaters, the days of troublesome scaling, cutting and gutting are over, because Super Bass-o-Matic '76 is the tool that lets you use the bass with no fish waste, and without scaling, cutting or gutting.

http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/Humor/SNL/images/bass04.jpg

[Puma]

there you are, groggy, needing a cup of coffee, you look in the cupboard...damn, you're out. Just then a knock on the door, your sexy new neighbor with a cup of joe.

Yes ladies and gentlemen, the hottest commercial that might have been selling a bit more than coffee. Anthony Stewart Head shills Taster's Choice

[Greg Hatcher]

Axe Body Spray is using the same gag, but the ORIGINAL cologne that had women tearing the clothes off guys was Hai Karate. Their guy had to depend on his keen martial arts skills to remain... um... virginal, I guess.

Yeah, I know. I don't really get it either. This is the best picture I could find. The commercial would feature this little nebbish laying waste to a room full of crazed women.

http://wesclark.com/am/hai_karate.jpg

If they'd found a way to sell it to kids they'd probably still be in business, because we all had the idea that the cologne actually conveyed martial arts skills. Marketing to adults, it was just odd.

[Mike Smash!]

You might remember me from other dibs calls like, "You Can Call Me Al" and "Lewis and Clark Versus The West: The Road to Victory."

By the way, here's an avatar for ya!

Thanks, Valmore!

[Mike Smash!]

Actually, I'd do one better...

This lady has fallen and she can't get up...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Lifecall-1.jpg

[Michael P]

Sally Struthers is probably best known, advertising-wise, for her ads for the Christian Children's Fund. But far more entertaining was her endorsement of the International Correspondence School (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RKQRVn4NAs). As a child, I earnestly believed that I could make as much money as I wanted with my correspondence degree in High School, TV/VCR Repair, Computer Programming, Electrician, Animal Care Specialist, Auto Mechanics, etc. Fortunately, my parents insisted on getting my degree at an actual college.

Also, it bloody well blew my mind when one of those commercials came on during TaleSpin.

I've got a stub av, but if anyone could make an image from that commercial, I'd be appreciative.

[howyadoin]

Axe Body Spray is using the same gag, but the ORIGINAL cologne that had women tearing the clothes off guys was Hai Karate. Their guy had to depend on his keen martial arts skills to remain... um... virginal, I guess.

Yeah, I know. I don't really get it either. This is the best picture I could find. The commercial would feature this little nebbish laying waste to a room full of crazed women.

http://wesclark.com/am/hai_karate.jpg

If they'd found a way to sell it to kids they'd probably still be in business, because we all had the idea that the cologne actually conveyed martial arts skills. Marketing to adults, it was just odd.My God, that is classic. Great choice, Greg.

[Fish Sauce]

Dibs on Zoe Tay. She's the face for a controversal campaign for some skin beauty company here at the moment.

I have to say that it's a pretty dodgy ad.

See it here: Ad (http://ideasbynumber.wordpress.com/files/2006/08/zoe.jpg)

[dougputhoff]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you that Levi's 501 Jeans spokesman from the early '90s:

ROB LIEFELD!

[Mac Danny]

Here you go.

[tricksterpup]

Here you go.
Thanks Mac Danny. I do appreciate that.

[HomerJay]

I'm in with Billy Dee Williams and Colt 45.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/HomerJay64/colt45.gif

Can someone do a simple 50/50 gif animation for me with these 2 images?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/HomerJay64/billydee.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/HomerJay64/bd_1_b.jpg

[Spike-X]

Dibs on Zoe Tay. She's the face for a controversal campaign for some skin beauty company here at the moment.

I have to say that it's a pretty dodgy ad.

See it here: Ad (http://ideasbynumber.wordpress.com/files/2006/08/zoe.jpg)
*gulp*

Yes, I can see why that would be controversial.

[howyadoin]

*gulp*So that's your beauty secret, too?

[Typo Lad]

Oh man, I have to show Suzannah that ad.

From a safe distance!

[Spackling Compound]

I'm entering with that hot piece of beef...Wilford Brimley. Oatmeal schill and now diabetic rabble rouser.

...hell of a moustache too.

[HomerJay]

I'm entering with that hot piece of beef...Wilford Brimley. Oatmeal schill and now diabetic rabble rouser.

...hell of a moustache too.
One of my favorite ONION headlines:
"SHOTGUN BLAST TO THE ABDOMEN ONLY PISSES OFF WILFORD BRIMLEY MORE"

[Mac Danny]

I'm in with Billy Dee Williams and Colt 45.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/HomerJay64/colt45.gif

Can someone do a simple 50/50 gif animation for me with these 2 images?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/HomerJay64/billydee.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/HomerJay64/bd_1_b.jpg


Here you go. Sorry the quality is so so.

[HomerJay]

Here you go. Sorry the quality is so so.
Thanx a ton!!

[Mac Danny]

I'm entering with that hot piece of beef...Wilford Brimley. Oatmeal schill and now diabetic rabble rouser.

...hell of a moustache too.


I almost went with the Brimley. Cause it was the right thing to do and the tasty way to do it.

Plus he was a crazy bow slinging cajun in Hard target..

"These men.. they want you for bidness or fo pleasuh"

http://www.movieactors.com/characters/freezes2/WilliamBHardT4.jpeg

I'm Wilfred Brimley.. And I'M GAY!

http://ecomm.mercanti.it/dvdstore/Foto/DPT1125_1030524174308.JPG

[Spackling Compound]

I almost went with the Brimley. Cause it was the right thing to do and the tasty way to do it.

I spent a few days with my parents. My octogenerian dad gets visibly disturbed whenever Wilford Brimley appears on commercial breaks during "Judge Judy" or "Texas Justice". He shuts the sound off and storms into another room. He said that Brimley sounds old, looks old and makes him feel old.

Wilford Brimley...the herald of the Grim Reaper.

[HomerJay]

My octogenerian dad gets visibly disturbed whenever Wilford Brimley appears on commercial breaks during "Judge Judy" or "Texas Justice". He shuts the sound off and storms into another room. He said that Brimley sounds old, looks old and makes him feel old.
Okay, that's funny.

My grandma was the same way. There was a woman on her block that she just referred to as "the old lady". Never mind that my grandma was actually older than her. Just another great lesson she taught me: age is a state of mind or attitude, not a number.

[Spackling Compound]

Okay, that's funny.

My grandma was the same way. There was a woman on her block that she just referred to as "the old lady". Never mind that my grandma was actually older than her. Just another great lesson she taught me: age is a state of mind or attitude, not a number.

Whenever I feel old, I tend to remind myself that Slash of Guns N' Roses and I were born on the same day, same year. Even though I'm balder, sober-er and know only two songs on guitar, it's a comfort.

[HomerJay]

On a related note: you'd have a better chance of finding a picture of a smiling sasquatch posing with the Loch Ness monster than you would of finding a pic of Wilford Brimley smiling.

[Mac Danny]

On a related note: you'd have a better chance of finding a picture of a smiling sasquatch posing with the Loch Ness monster than you would of finding a pic of Wilford Brimley smiling.

With a moustache like that. How would you Know?

That's be a good avatar contest. Moustaches!

[Mac Danny]

It's KIND of a smile..

http://www.paultodd.com/images/brim1.jpg

[Spackling Compound]

That's be a good avatar contest. Moustaches!
We had one already....

[Your Imaginary Pal]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h125/Baqula/lovinitbig.gif
I'm suprised he hasn't shown up yet.
Well Here he is.
Good old Ronald.

[Mac Danny]

We had one already....


Who Won? Was it Sam Elliot? cause that guy has got a Phenominal Moustache!
http://www.urbanchupacabra.net/uc-graphics/elliot_sam.jpg

[Spackling Compound]

Who Won? Was it Sam Elliot? cause that guy has got a Phenominal Moustache!
http://www.urbanchupacabra.net/uc-graphics/elliot_sam.jpg

There ya go..it was a year ago!
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=78672&highlight=avatar+contest

[Matt]

I present the ultimate spokesperson for a campaign...

Buddy Christ, highlighting the new face of Catholiscism for all!

[Dennis K]

I'm done with the avatar contests... it's football season.

[jessecuster3]

I'm done with the avatar contests... it's football season.


I am in with that shiller of gloves Dan Marino.




Take that mr football man !

[K'Nort]

I am in with that shiller of gloves Dan Marino.

Take that mr football man !

Somehow when I think football and gloves, Marino is not the first name that comes to mind.

[Dennis K]

Somehow when I think football and gloves, Marino is not the first name that comes to mind.


I will probably regret this, but what is the first name that comes to mind?

[Dennis K]

I am in with that shiller of gloves Dan Marino.




Take that mr football man !


Isn't he a pitchman for Nutri-systems now? (Great choice btw)

[jessecuster3]

Isn't he a pitchman for Nutri-systems now? (Great choice btw)


He is doing something else, but come on, everyone remembers those dumb Isotoners commercials.

[jessecuster3]

I will probably regret this, but what is the first name that comes to mind?


Umm OJ ?!??!?!?

And you call yourself a Buffalo fan !

[Dennis K]

Umm OJ ?!??!?!?

And you call yourself a Buffalo fan !


I knew I would regret asking.... that killed a big part of my childhood. Oh wait, poor choice of words there. My family used to have Bills season tickets back then, I got to go to every home game the Bills had when the Juice had his 2,000 yard season.

[Matt]

When does voting on this thing start?

[Mike Smash!]

Now seems as good a time as any. It's Tuesday for most of the U.S. and it's gotta be almost Wednesday in Australia by now.

My vote goes to Cei-U! for the Flintstones cigarette ad that I recently tried to convince to my coworkers actually existed.

[Bouncing Boy]

I have to vote for Spackling Compound's Wilford Brimley Avatar, because it's the right thing to do. I wish I had thought of him.

[dougputhoff]

I have to go with jessecuster2 and Dan Marino for personal reasons I saw him in a Circuit City ad campaigning against autism, which one of my nephews suffers from. Runner-up is Matt for Buddy Jesus.

[Fish Sauce]

Hmm, I thought someone would do Rex from Napoleon Dynamite. Ah well.

I'll go for K'Nort, I've never seen the ad, but it looks like some mighty fine bass.

[Matt]

My vote is for Cei-U.
That's a classic.

[Spike-X]

It's gotta be the Flintstones shilling for cigarettes. Just for the sheer cracktitude.

[Valmore]

Michael Pullman summoned the funny with his avatar.

"Would you like to make more money? Sure, we all do! That's why I'm shilling these second-rate, Good Enough Diplomas - because nobody would give me real acting work."

[borateen]

Puma gets my vote

[Your Imaginary Pal]

call me heartless, but the medic alert commercial still makes me laugh hysterically.
I vote for Mike Smash. Because if I didn't I wouldn't be true to my inner inappropriateness.

[Spackling Compound]

Borateen gets mine. It's like the MASTER THESPIAN is shilling for Subway there.

[Mac Danny]

My vote goes to Greg Hatcher. That Hai Karate ad is hysterical! Plus My dad kept etting that crap for christams from peopel I think he still ven has a botttle.

Hai Karate.. Smells like a High School Prom.

[Dreadstar]

Cei-U stole my original idea.

[Guapo Méndez]

Cei-U, for remembering us the time when advertising had very screwy priorities.

[Typo Lad]

Yeah, Kurt ftw.

[Michael P]

Cei-U, for remembering us the time when advertising had very screwy priorities.
Whaddaya mean "had?"

[Guapo Méndez]

Whaddaya mean "had?"


Touché!


ten

[Slam_Bradley]

Gotta go with Cei-U.

[Cei-U!]

My vote goes to K'nort. I was watching with a bunch of folks in our dorm lounge the night that first ran. I'll never forget the chorus of "Ewwws!" that arose when Dan drinks that crap... and not just from the girly-girls.

Cei-U!
Mmmmmmmmmmmm... bassy!

[Beatnikman]

I'm a sucker for old SNL stuff.

K'Nort.

[jessecuster3]

ImgoingwithMacDannybecausethatwasthefirstthingItho ughof.

[tricksterpup]

CEI-U...

That Barney Rubble what an Actor.

[JerrBear81]

Matt gets my vote this week :D

[Night]

Another vote for Cei-U!

[Donald M.]

I'll go with [b]Cei-U[/i].


Didn't someone win a previous contest with essentiall the same avatar?

[dougputhoff]

I'll go with [b]Cei-U[/i].


Didn't someone win a previous contest with essentiall the same avatar?

They did a few weeks back.

And I mention the Smoking Flintstones in a contest a year or so ago.

[dougputhoff]

Okay, it's past Midnight on the left coast. I have tallied them up.

Tied for third with one vote:

Spacking Compound
jessecutser2
Micheal Pullman
Puma
Mike Smash!
borateen
Greg Hatcher
Mac Danny
Matt.

In second place with three votes:

K'Nort.

And This week's winner, with nine votes, Cei-U and his Smoking Cavemen.

Congratulations! You get to pick the new contest.

[Mike Smash!]

And to think that recently, Kurt actually told me that he would never win one of these contests!

[borateen]

Borateen gets mine. It's like the MASTER THESPIAN is shilling for Subway there.

ACTING!

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[dougputhoff]

And to think that recently, Kurt actually told me that he would never win one of these contests!

Cripes even I have won one!

[Cei-U!]

And to think that recently, Kurt actually told me that he would never win one of these contests!

I told my sister the same thing last week.

I'm kinda sorry it wasn't an original an entry as I thought it was. I honestly don't remember anybody using it here. I got the idea after Mark Evanier posted a link to the ad itself a week or two back.

Anyway, thanks for the votes.

Cei-U!
New contest up in a few minutes!