All Stevenson has to do is change the name of the character, and Procter and Gamble will pay him??
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Got it in one.
I haven’t read the book or seen the movie but I am familiar with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Usually in product placement, you want your product to be seen in a positive light.
I’m not sure you would want it associated with something evil. Unless the idea is that Mr. Clean is evil to dirt and grime and germs. But I don’t think that is how he is portrayed in Mr. Stevenson’s book.
Eh? What’s a single word? I’m still not getting it.
And P.S., that’s “Procter and Gamble”, not “Proctor”.
Changing Hyde to Clean is only changing one word albeit doing it multiple times
Um, ok…not arguing with you, but it’s still a CIDU for me then. As in, how is that even remotely funny?
So it is. Even though that looks wrong.
The joke is that there must have been someone who was the first to conceive of product placement in a book or play or movie, that person being a product placement visionary, and the guy holding the poster is that person, Alf Colvin. Not a great joke. Sort of like this one: Moses’ agent to Moses: “Can’t you think of a catchier title than ‘Deuteronomy’?”
I thought this one was pretty good. The joke is not just that Alf has thought of product placement, but that he’s envisioning a giant change that would completely ruin what is now a classic work of literature, and trying to sell it as a minor change. The author looks understandably unhappy, and Alf is trying to act like it’s no big deal.
@ Bill – Nine comments in quick succession has revealed a new problem with this WordPress template: the “Recent Comments” section lists only 10 comments. Can you increase that to 15, like it was on the old site?
P.S. I would have thought that this should get a geezer tag. Does P&G still run ads showing a bald guy with a gold earring (matching the shadow in this panel)? I’m sure the original actor must have died long ago.
P.P.S. The expression on the face of “Dr. Jekyll” makes it look like he has to drink a flask full of “Mr. Clean” in order to turn into the monster (and that he knows what it’s going to taste like).
@Kilby: The Mr. Clean ads I’ve seen in the last few years had an animated Mr. Clean interacting with a live woman.
@Mark/Winter Wallaby: Thanks. Now at least I get what it was trying to do!
Kilby, I believe that is within my ability…
And done.
Kilby, I enjoyed this Mr. Clean commercial from Super Bowl 2017.
I’ll try to put in a link, don’t know if it will work at all or maybe get sent to moderation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBXB3cITT5Y
Cool, the link worked! I’m impressed!
Hey Bill, since you’re in the mood to tinker with things, is it possible to get the comments numbered again? I thought it was much easier to respond to someone’s comment if you could refer to where in the list the comment was made, even when moderation messed up the numbers from time to time. (Forgive me if you’ve addressed this issue elsewhere and I missed it.)
@ Bill – Whatever you did to the number of recent comments, it doesn’t appear to have changed anything (neither here, or in the newer “Caesar” thread).
Oh. That’s because I’m functionally illiterate and I made the change to the “Recent Posts” widget instead of the “Recent Comments” widget.
@Kilby: How have you managed to miss the Mr. Clean (well, Meister Proper, same guy) commercials here? I watch almost no TV and have seen one or two recently (and maybe one at the movies),
Mona:
Usually in product placement, you want your product to be seen in a positive light.
I’m not sure you would want it associated with something evil.
Eh…even ignoring the Decepticons taking the forms of licensed cars (which is a thing in any of the lines that use real cars), the first Transformers movie had some of its more prominent non-car product placement from Nokia and Mt Dew – in both cases, the Allspark turned their products (or, rather the items with their names on – a phone and a vending machine) into dangerous, aggressively feral robots.
I’m still getting a max of 10 recent comments, is that just me?
This might be why it looks ‘wrong’ . . .
noun: proctor; plural noun: proctors
North American
a person who monitors students during an examination.
British
an officer (usually one of two) at certain universities, appointed annually and having mainly disciplinary functions.
@ DemetriosX – I rarely watch anything on commercial German TV. The major exceptions are the Sunday night cooking shows (on Vox), but those are so long that we tape them and watch them in sections during the week (skipping over all the ads), and some oddball sports (like snooker and curling) on Eurosport, which rarely advertises for cleaning products.
Stan, numbering of comments is unfortunately not an option.
In restaurant terms, think of each template as a fixed menu with minimal substitutions offered.
P.S. @ chakolate – See Bill’s comment above, right below mine. He upped the number of recent posts rather than comments. I hope he can set them both to 15. The fact that this template is “unlimited length” makes it very hard to travel back to pick up any post near the beginning.
P.P.S. And if the unlimited page length cannot be fixed, that (and the non-numbering) would be the proverbial straw on the camel’s back. Time to start shopping around for a new template. Heck, I wonder if we can get “someone” (meaning larK) to design a new one…
I’m pretty sure that’s changeable, once I stumble upon the right place to do so: the management board is set up in an illogical and non-intuitive manner (as so many are: they make perfect sense to somebody who already knows how to use them).
Bill @ 4 comments back: Sorry to hear that. I really appreciate your efforts though. I can’t imagine the work you must put into this site each week.Thanks!
“that’s “Procter and Gamble”, not “Proctor”.”
They know who they are.
I see 15 recent comments!
Same here, WW, but I had to CTRL Shift R to see them.
The (presumed) publisher is telling him that “it is such a small change – only one word, what does it matter to change just the one word and look how much we can get from the manufacturer for the change.”
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Got it in one.
I haven’t read the book or seen the movie but I am familiar with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Usually in product placement, you want your product to be seen in a positive light.
I’m not sure you would want it associated with something evil. Unless the idea is that Mr. Clean is evil to dirt and grime and germs. But I don’t think that is how he is portrayed in Mr. Stevenson’s book.
Eh? What’s a single word? I’m still not getting it.
And P.S., that’s “Procter and Gamble”, not “Proctor”.
Changing Hyde to Clean is only changing one word albeit doing it multiple times
Um, ok…not arguing with you, but it’s still a CIDU for me then. As in, how is that even remotely funny?
So it is. Even though that looks wrong.
The joke is that there must have been someone who was the first to conceive of product placement in a book or play or movie, that person being a product placement visionary, and the guy holding the poster is that person, Alf Colvin. Not a great joke. Sort of like this one: Moses’ agent to Moses: “Can’t you think of a catchier title than ‘Deuteronomy’?”
I thought this one was pretty good. The joke is not just that Alf has thought of product placement, but that he’s envisioning a giant change that would completely ruin what is now a classic work of literature, and trying to sell it as a minor change. The author looks understandably unhappy, and Alf is trying to act like it’s no big deal.
@ Bill – Nine comments in quick succession has revealed a new problem with this WordPress template: the “Recent Comments” section lists only 10 comments. Can you increase that to 15, like it was on the old site?
P.S. I would have thought that this should get a geezer tag. Does P&G still run ads showing a bald guy with a gold earring (matching the shadow in this panel)? I’m sure the original actor must have died long ago.
P.P.S. The expression on the face of “Dr. Jekyll” makes it look like he has to drink a flask full of “Mr. Clean” in order to turn into the monster (and that he knows what it’s going to taste like).
@Kilby: The Mr. Clean ads I’ve seen in the last few years had an animated Mr. Clean interacting with a live woman.
@Mark/Winter Wallaby: Thanks. Now at least I get what it was trying to do!
Kilby, I believe that is within my ability…
And done.
Kilby, I enjoyed this Mr. Clean commercial from Super Bowl 2017.
I’ll try to put in a link, don’t know if it will work at all or maybe get sent to moderation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBXB3cITT5Y
Cool, the link worked! I’m impressed!
Hey Bill, since you’re in the mood to tinker with things, is it possible to get the comments numbered again? I thought it was much easier to respond to someone’s comment if you could refer to where in the list the comment was made, even when moderation messed up the numbers from time to time. (Forgive me if you’ve addressed this issue elsewhere and I missed it.)
@ Bill – Whatever you did to the number of recent comments, it doesn’t appear to have changed anything (neither here, or in the newer “Caesar” thread).
Oh. That’s because I’m functionally illiterate and I made the change to the “Recent Posts” widget instead of the “Recent Comments” widget.
@Kilby: How have you managed to miss the Mr. Clean (well, Meister Proper, same guy) commercials here? I watch almost no TV and have seen one or two recently (and maybe one at the movies),
Mona:
Eh…even ignoring the Decepticons taking the forms of licensed cars (which is a thing in any of the lines that use real cars), the first Transformers movie had some of its more prominent non-car product placement from Nokia and Mt Dew – in both cases, the Allspark turned their products (or, rather the items with their names on – a phone and a vending machine) into dangerous, aggressively feral robots.
And the sequel to last year’s Super Bowl ad (second half of this video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkcZbhTAznQ
I’m still getting a max of 10 recent comments, is that just me?
This might be why it looks ‘wrong’ . . .
noun: proctor; plural noun: proctors
North American
a person who monitors students during an examination.
British
an officer (usually one of two) at certain universities, appointed annually and having mainly disciplinary functions.
@ DemetriosX – I rarely watch anything on commercial German TV. The major exceptions are the Sunday night cooking shows (on Vox), but those are so long that we tape them and watch them in sections during the week (skipping over all the ads), and some oddball sports (like snooker and curling) on Eurosport, which rarely advertises for cleaning products.
Stan, numbering of comments is unfortunately not an option.
In restaurant terms, think of each template as a fixed menu with minimal substitutions offered.
P.S. @ chakolate – See Bill’s comment above, right below mine. He upped the number of recent posts rather than comments. I hope he can set them both to 15. The fact that this template is “unlimited length” makes it very hard to travel back to pick up any post near the beginning.
P.P.S. And if the unlimited page length cannot be fixed, that (and the non-numbering) would be the proverbial straw on the camel’s back. Time to start shopping around for a new template. Heck, I wonder if we can get “someone” (meaning larK) to design a new one…
I’m pretty sure that’s changeable, once I stumble upon the right place to do so: the management board is set up in an illogical and non-intuitive manner (as so many are: they make perfect sense to somebody who already knows how to use them).
Bill @ 4 comments back: Sorry to hear that. I really appreciate your efforts though. I can’t imagine the work you must put into this site each week.Thanks!
“that’s “Procter and Gamble”, not “Proctor”.”
They know who they are.
I see 15 recent comments!
Same here, WW, but I had to CTRL Shift R to see them.
The (presumed) publisher is telling him that “it is such a small change – only one word, what does it matter to change just the one word and look how much we can get from the manufacturer for the change.”