Elephant house is too trendy! I’ve given up their drinks.
After watching The Dark Knight, at Liberty (twice I might mention), I have come to the conclusion that I’m just not trendy enough to drink Elephant House (hereafter referred to as ‘Aliya’) soft drinks. You know what I’m talking about, that ad that shows all those groovy and trendy people dancing and drinking Aliya soft drinks. I’ve seen this ad occasionally on tv but not being much of a tv person I didn’t pay much attention to it. But seeing an advertisement on a 20 foot screen is different. It makes you…..think.
And I thought about it. I’m just not trendy enough. I mean look at the people in the ad! There are bunches and bunches of young people singing and dancing and gyrating and whatnot. Not a non-trendy person in sight. The only overweight person in the ad was Ashanthi and even she was wearing trendy clothes. These people looked like they had been born wearing denims and friendship bracelets. These are the type of people who would be able to pull of a look that you wouldn’t be caught dead in. And come on, how many of you have ACTUALLY danced on top of a fountain while drinking any brand of soft drink? Soft drinks don’t make you dance on top of fountains, a few stiff shots of whiskey do. Trendy drinks for trendy people.
Click to see image in full
The above image clearly shows what I’m talking about. This image was shot unbeknownst to the vendor with my special Canon VB-291 voice bubble capturing camera.
Note - I now have less hair. Also, I do not know why I’m holding the vendors hand. Also, most people call me ‘aiya’ regardless of how old they are. All 3 wheel drivers and shopkeepers call me ‘aiya’.
Ever since that day, and incidentally the day I watched Batman the second time, I decided that I would not go without soft drinks because of my un-trendiness or non-trendiness. I now make my own soft drinks from sachets.
Say NO to TRENDINESSколи под наем
September 29th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
dude
wtf?
random
hahahaha
a couple of grades from our school took part in the shooting of a cream soda ad last year, they’ve stopped using the ad now though, I was in it
well, you couldn’t see me
but I went for the shooting
so technically
I’m trendy
September 29th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
hey joman been ages since your last post. well i was in one of the elephant house ads. so im trendy as well
oh and btw wearing friendship bracelets doesn’t make you trendy.
nice post. and quite true. i felt sad drinking coca cola since the ad had all sorts of famous people and im not that famous
September 30th, 2008 at 12:26 am
First it was cerno talking about EGB, and now its you. Being in advertising, I see guerrilla marketign tactics everywhere like war veterans think everyone’s a spy. But honestly, if I see a “blog campaign” that wins at Chillies, i will tel the whole blogosphere. (points to my eyes and urs, my eyes, and urs)
September 30th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Thanks guys, this is just a random post (not a marketing campaign I swear!) that I came up with while watching batman. I got kicked out of kottu for being inactive :D, so I had to post something to get back in. Those of you who were expecting the facebook post, worry not. that’s next. As soon as I get a few moments.
Note - Due to a complaint I got stating that I had NARROWED the image to make me look thinner, I have made the image smaller and LINKED to it so you can see it in it’s full SIZE. Hope that satisfies you complainer
October 13th, 2008 at 8:50 am
you got that right about being trendy! LOL
howcome your site is listed twice on kottu? hehe dont tell me someone went all paranoid thinking they had been kicked out! (referring to one of your earlier posts:P)
October 18th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
I did get kicked out! My earlier post wasn’t listed so I got myself relisted. So now I show up twice? Awesome!
October 23rd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
you are insane
October 28th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I notice this post filed under “humor”.. is that meant to be ironic? or perhaps the act of filing it under “humor” is what’s funny about this in which case disregard what I said.
October 28th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
@Nefarious,
Only a bit
@Jahufar
You don’t miss anything with those beady bloodshot eyes of yours do you? But your opinions are appreciated Flatulent One.
November 14th, 2008 at 4:08 am
HAHA. You untrendy elephant-man.