Who is responsible for THIS
Brian I’m looking at you. (Psst, can you send me some)
Have these marketing creatures ever smelled a filthy Irish? Like boiled cabbage and creosote so it is.
Oh Christ, there’s more and even more . The second link features an Irishman smashing semi naked pigfellas in the face with a potato in a sock. No, really. Click on ‘Defend Her Honor’.
Die Colgate.
EDIT: More! What the fuck have you people being doing over there?
(Via Blogorrah)
April 12th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
All the more amusing given the recent cryptosporidium outbreak; you’d be surprised what an Irish spring really smells like these days…
April 13th, 2007 at 3:33 am
Christ, two deoderants, they boast. Authentic. Lynx Africa for the crotch followed by Brut for the throat, and you’re good to go.
April 13th, 2007 at 3:39 am
Get…’Irish’…fresh.
I don’t…I don’t understand. Are the Americans experimenting with irony now, or what?
April 13th, 2007 at 5:15 am
I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s been wondering about these ads. I had the same reaction–do I really want to smell like an Irishman? Plus the “get Irish now” slogan sounds vaguely sexual. All in all, very disturbing, especially considering the fact that I used Irish Spring soap for years when I was in college.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaa! Is this the first time you’ve seen these? I haven’t seen the new body wash one before, and had almost forgotten about the “whistle whistle!” classic ones.
Right now I’m deeply, deeply afraid that these are what have subliminally convinced me that Ireland is the bestest place in the world. Forget the beer and the rebel songs–apparently it’s due to my compulsive need to be clean.
April 14th, 2007 at 1:55 am
Yeah the shock and awe was intense. Thankfully we only have to deal with the Lynx goblins and their ilk over here, I think it’s branded Axe over the pond.
The really disturbing thing about the first ad is that he’s rubbing the essence of drowned Irish lasses all over his hairy bollix. Like some CSI/deodorant mashup nightmare.
April 14th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
They seem happy enough about it though, about the drowning. They look at that whirlpool of time-travelling, shrinking death like they’ve hit the jackpot. I don’t see them clawing hopelessly at the air or anything like that (though that would have made the ad a whole lot cooler).
Maybe they’ve been told about the take-you-to-America wormhole in the river, and they’re waiting around for it. It may shrink you, it may drag you two hundred years into the future, but by god, you’ll be in America, where teeth are big and white and men aren’t permenantly caked in pigshit.
April 17th, 2007 at 9:03 am
‘AAAAnd weeee loik it toooooo!’
Do they still do that?