Bankers get dander up at Kia's Y2K Spoof Ads

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Pull the ads, they say, in this link.

-- Lisa (lisa@work.now), May 19, 1999

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I figure this will have about as much success as convincing Hollywood not to release any Y2K movies later this year.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), May 19, 1999.

The bankers are getting bad PR advice on this one. The more jokes that are made in the mass media about Y2K, the more relaxed people will get about it. By acting uptight about those ads, the banks are giving the impression that maybe they have something to hide.

Of course, most of you think they do have something to hide....

-- Polly (skippy@innermongolia.com), May 19, 1999.


Nothing to hide here - actually, I thought the ads were kind of cute. In fact, I brought them up jokingly at a recent dinner with members of the St. Louis Fed. I don't mean to make light of the situation, but with all of the hard work going on in the banking industry, sometimes you have to just laugh - or else you'll cry!

-- Diana (dstubblefield@ldd.net), May 19, 1999.

It's really kinda funny, if you think about it..... here are all the pollies and paranoids certain that we, the yourdonites, and possibly some Northians, are going to single-handedly trash the fractional reserve system, with an audience of what, 1000 people?

Kia ads hit 200 million people (I see 'em all the time), the bankers freak out and insist they pull the ad; Kia thumbs their nose at the ABA; but we still have to fend off the pollies who insist we're gonna precipitate bank runs.

My money says those bank ads disappear as soon as the Federal Reserve Board members show up on the showroom floor in Irvine. I get the impression that the ABA generally gets what it wants.

Think I'll email that lady in the ad and ask her if the ABA just decided to back off or what after the initial request to pull them.

-- Lisa (lisa@work.now), May 19, 1999.


But, Lisa, you don't understand, memette. The folks from Der Boonkah and BFI REALLY and TRULY believe we each have a mind virus that we're contaminating the entire world with, not just the folks who visit the forum. The virus is called a meme. You see, forum vistors get the meme, then they pass it on to whoever THEY talk to, they pass it on, etc., etc. Look, here's a BFI post from Paul Davis just yesterday:

http://www.smu.edu/cgi-bin/Nova/get/gn/1250/1.html

Just so you know

Forum: Gary North is a Big Fat Idiot Forum

Re: Here to admit my mistake (Stefan Ford)

Date: May 18, 22:03

From: Paul Davis

Right now it looks pretty certain that BFI has a new home. I will let ID or the new owner announce the details, but I think BFI is going to survive.

Glad to hear you got over the meme infection.

You see -- GLAD TO HEAR YOU GOT OVER THE MEME INFECTION??? (This is about where you start the Twilight Zone music.)

-- OutingsR (us@here.yar), May 19, 1999.



It truly is a "religious fervor" with them - don't know why, but no Jew-baiting Nazi, barroom-smashing teetotaler, anti-smoking liar, anti-gun liberal, Shitte Moslem fundamentalist, or14th century inquistioner had the religious fervor (fever?) about a technical issue more violently than these guys.

The issue is beginning to go past the "decison" level with many (not all) somuch that reason has nothing to do with it. (Thus one cannot reason with them any more!) It is an emotional issue - so much so, that, I am wondering (in some cases) whether they are actually paid to do their work.

Could a government-hired worker (even if as a sub-contractor level) be that emotionally wound up over an issue they can't prevent? You must admit, the results are subject to polling data - aren't subject to votes or 3 persent margins.

The systems and processes we depend on will either fail in certain localities, or they won't. And the professionally-enabled polly's won't be able to hide the effects if they fail.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), June 01, 1999.


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