What is with all these y2k doom TV commercials?

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I've see a few y2k doom tv commercials that companies are making to exploit the issue just to sell a product, how disgusting!!

-- Curious (24545@6789.com), June 17, 1999

Answers

It's just one more way of making preparers appear to be Nut-cases. Time will tell. The clueless just keep making those big bank deposits. I must admit however....that Motel chain commercial about enjoying the Apocolypse from one of their rooms (or not) is pretty funny!

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), June 17, 1999.

Yeah Will,

but the numb-nutz said "we'll keep the ligt on for ya"...

Bwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaahahahaaahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.ho

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), June 17, 1999.


And now, the question we all want to have answered - will the Year 2000 Volkswagon be advertised as the Y2K BUG?

-- Paul Davis (davisp1953@yahoo.com), June 17, 1999.

Damn Paul.....that was actually "human". 10 points, my man!!!

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), June 17, 1999.

The question is, will these commercials help (by raising awareness) or hurt (by trivializing the issue, or worse... causing irrational fear)?

-- M.C. Hicks (mhicks@greenwich.com), June 17, 1999.


Paul,

What a riot!!!

MC,

I would vote irrational fear.

-- Peg (private@please.thanks), June 17, 1999.


I like the one where the guy has to rush to take a polaroid of his bank balance on the ATM. The lights go out after showing a balance of 345 or something...they come right back up and show 48 million!

Thats a double Polaroid if I've ever seen one!

-- (not@impor.tant), June 17, 1999.


the easiest way to discredit someone is to accuse them of being mad....it is on the wind though....(sounds crazy,doesn't it?)

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), June 17, 1999.

Paul needs a new hobby.

-- Carlos (riffraff1@cybertime.net), June 17, 1999.

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