[nfb-talk] Fw: [acb-l] fw: the commercial we will neverseeorhear

tribble lauraeaves at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 2 23:12:20 CST 2008 

Anyone else watch the movie "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" with richard pryer 
and gene wilder?
Now that was full of blind and deaf jokes but probably one of the funniest 
movies I've seen in a while...
I actually chatted over the net with a deaf friend about that movie.  He 
also thought it was hilarious.
No accounting for taste.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dmgina" <dmgina at qwest.net>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fw: [acb-l] fw: the commercial we will 
neverseeorhear


I still don't get it,
Is the boy deaf and blind?
Guess if they enjoy it then they need the fun.

--Dar
www.mypowermall.com/biz/home/5779
Every Saint has a past
Every Sinner has a future

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fw: [acb-l] fw: the commercial we will
neverseeorhear


> Do you really believe that someone will honk his horn and deduce that
> the "Bob" -- the deaf person -- is the one whose house lights won't get
> turned on? How is this different from the blind jokes we all abhor in
> public and secretly admire to our shame?
>
> Mike
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: dmgina
>  To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>  Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 2:07 PM
>  Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fw: [acb-l] fw: the commercial we will never
> seeorhear
>
>
>  Mike,
>  I guess I don't understand.
>  I thought the joke was to show folks how noisy it is.
>  What did I miss.
>  Other than it is a quiet commercial.
>  Where do the deaf want to go with this after the commercial?
>
>  --Dar
>  www.mypowermall.com/biz/home/5779
>  Every Saint has a past
>  Every Sinner has a future
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
>  To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>  Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 10:23 AM
>  Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fw: [acb-l] fw: the commercial we will never
> see
>  orhear
>
>
>  > And the deaf don't see the patronizing attitude in the commercial?
> And
>  > we wonder why we have so far to go.
>  >
>  > Mike
>  >
>  >  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  >  From: Bill Outman
>  >  To: Multiple recipients of NFBnet NFB-Talk Mailing List
>  >  Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 6:33 AM
>  >  Subject: [nfb-talk] Fw: [acb-l] fw: the commercial we will never
> see
>  > or hear
>  >
>  >
>  >  Just passing this along so no one will be alarmed when the Super
> Bowl
>  >  broadcast is on tomorrow.  It's about an ad designed to raise
>  > awareness of
>  >  the deaf community.
>  >
>  >  Thought everyone should be aware of this since we won't hear and
> may
>  > not see
>  >  what is happening.
>  >
>  >  Bill Outman
>  >
>  >  ----- Original Message -----
>  >  From: kathy blackburn <kblackbn at austin.rr.com>
>  >  To: <acb-l at acb.org>
>  >  Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 7:49 PM
>  >  Subject: [acb-l] fw: the commercial we will never see or hear
>  >
>  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >  ---- Original Message ------
>  >  > From: "Patricia" <send_stuff_here at sbcglobal.net
>  >  > Subject: [ACBT] Only deaf people will get this Super Bowl ad
>  >  > PepsiCo's
>  >  > Date sent: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:39:06 -0600
>  >  >
>  >  > Only deaf people will get this Super Bowl ad PepsiCo's 60 s
>  >  > econds of
>  >  >
>  >  > utter silence will stump the hearing-abled The Associated Press,
>  >  > January 24,
>  >  > 2008 NEW YORK - Amid the wall-to-wall sound during next Sunday's
>  >  > Super Bowl,
>  >  > one commercial from PepsiCo could send some viewers grabbing for
>  >  > their
>  >  > remotes to check whether they'd accidentally hit the mute button.
>  >  >
>  >  > The pre-game advertisement features a joke that originates from
>  >  > the deaf
>  >  > community and will play out on screen over 60 seconds of total
>  >  > silence, a
>  >  > veritable eternity when it comes to the noisiness of Super Bowl
>  >  > ads.
>  >  >
>  >  > "It's a popular story and we just turned it into an
>  >  > advertisement," said
>  >  > Clay Broussard, a supply and logistics manager at PepsiCo who
>  >  > proposed the
>  >  > idea for the ad.  "This is the PepsiCo flavor of that joke."
>  >  >
>  >  > The joke goes like this: Two guys are driving to their friend
>  >  > Bob's house to
>  >  > watch the Super Bowl.  Once they get to Bob's street, neither
>  >  > knows which
>  >  > house is his.  They sit in the car, arguing, until one of them
>  >  > has an idea.
>  >  >
>  >  > He starts laying on the horn, and one by one, the houses light up
>  >  > and dogs
>  >  > start barking.
>  >  >
>  >  > One house stays dark and quiet: It's Bob's.
>  >  >
>  >  > Deaf people will be falling out of their chairs in disbelief,
>  >  > National
>  >  > Association of the Deaf president Bobbie Beth Scoggins wrote in
>  >  > an e-mail
>  >  > response to questions.  Hearing people, Scoggins wrote, will stop
>  >  > what
>  >  > they're doing to see why there are no sounds.  She believes it's
>  >  > an historic
>  >  > first for an ad featuring American Sign Language to get such
>  >  > prominent play.
>  >  >
>  >  > "I was glad to see this part of deaf culture awareness shared in
>  >  > a most
>  >  > clever way," Scoggins, who is deaf, wrote by e-mail as she was
>  >  > traveling.
>  >  >
>  >  > Broussard, who plays Bob in the commercial, has worked for
>  >  > PepsiCo in Dallas
>  >  > for 27 years.  He got involved in the deaf community through a
>  >  > church he and
>  >  > his wife attended, where the services were conducted entirely in
>  >  > sign
>  >  > language.  Broussard is not deaf.
>  >  >
>  >  > The two actors who play Bob's friends - Brian Dowling and Darren
>  >  > Therriault
>  >  >
>  >  > - are also PepsiCo employees, and are deaf.  Dowling works for
>  >  > Frito-Lay in
>  >  > Arizona, and Therriault works for PepsiCo in Chicago.
>  >  >
>  >  > Broussard worked on the ad concept on his own time.  He said,
>  >  > "This was all
>  >  > extra credit."
>  >  >
>  >  > It was 18 months before he showed it to senior managers, who
>  >  > decided they
>  >  > wanted it for the Super Bowl.
>  >  >
>  >  > The ad was directed by Baker Smith, with creative help from
>  >  > BBDO-NY.  A
>  >  > PepsiCo spokeswoman declined to say how much the ad cost.
>  >  >
>  >  > C 2008 The Associated Press.
>  >  >
>  >  > All rights reserved.
>  >  >
>  >  >
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