Sex to sell coal

[Az]

Now I have seen everything.

Sitting here DUing and have the TV on in the background. A GE commercial just came on pushing its new coal processing tech. The ad consisted of a bunch of sweaty models (male and female) working in a coal mine. Lots of tight clothes. Lots of sweat. Lots of jiggling.

How many ways is this low? Blech. The Corporations must be brought under control.

[Joebert]

1. Must... buy... coal...

must be popular...
must hang out with models...
must get black lung...

:-)

[MisterP]

2. the song they used is so damn ironic I nearly got a stroke

[chalky]

3. What was the song?

n/t

[Az]

4. Forgot to mention that: 16 tons

Some people say a man is made outta' mud
A poor man's made outta' muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong

You load sixteen tons, what do ya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number 9 coal
And the store boss said "Well, a-bless my soul"

You load sixteen tons, what do ya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion
Cain't no-a high-toned woman make me walk the line

You load sixteen tons, what do ya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

If you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don't getcha, then the left one will

You load sixteen tons, what do ya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store.

[TheStates]

7. This is totally sick, it is an abomination....

Cheney is a racist son of a gun.....There's no way that song should be used, its like asking/ordering poor and black people to become slaves.

[Ian David]

8. You think an advertising exec is TRYING to sabotage the campaign?

Stranger things have happened.

No often, but they happen.

[Az]

16. Brings to mind Little Mermaid

And its notorious video cover art.

[nonconformist]

5. 16 tons.

I know. It's like using the Fixin' To Die Rag in an Army commercial.

[TheStates]

6. This is a new low for EXXON-Mobil & General Electric....

No longer dependant on the oil wars, (read: PNAC=oil) now they want to mine coal out of the ground.

I had read about the report Cheney was doing to spend 20 something billion on coal mining underneath New Orleans, but I always thought it was poppycock.

Now I know to bite my tongue....these greedy corporations are out of control.

The best platform of progressive democrats can take over immediately, is alternative fuel. Buy here, buy now. Buy NO MORE G-E and NO MORE EXCEL or EXXON. Boycott the companies, and provide bio-diesel fuels or alternative solar, hydrogen funding and schooling.

[Ian David]

9. How many miles per pound can you get burning Republican body fat?

It's gotta be better than eating them.

Soylent Green or RepubliDiesel... hmmm... which will it be?

[TheStates]

12. How many Karl Rove's does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Note..you don't have to answer that. :P

[Az]

13. He screws little people not lightbulbs

:evilgrin:

[TheStates]

15. He screws everything that moves and then lies about it.

Time for a orange jumpsuit.....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Bring corps under control? Rather, educate the suckers who fall for it.

[applegrove]

11. I saw that. Who knew that women could be so good with jackhammers.

And all that vibration too. Wonder what Pat Robertson thinks of that?

I thought they were advertising bras.

[Retrograde]

23. it's got eye candy for all persuasions

I thought it was a jeans ad, which is why the guys were all shirtless.

[applegrove]

26. Started out with men - which was slightly odd for all the lighting - but

women in mines? Now that was a shock.

[jzodda]

14. Didnt you know?

Coal is so sexy and all the miners are supermodels! New sources of energy and conservation, pollution control. Who needs to worry about all that stuff when the mines are filled with hotties!

Even I knew that much :D

[onager]

17. 16 Tons? Ha! Irony really is dead...

The song was written by Merle Travis, who had some suspicous ties to that well-known Commie organization, the United Mineworkers Union.

http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/darkas.html

Another Merle Travis song fits a lot better, though it admittedly lacks the Boomer Nostalgia Element so badly needed in TV commercials...

Come listen you fellows, so young and so fine,
And seek not your fortune in the dark, dreary mines.
It will form as a habit and seep in your soul,
'Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal.

Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
Where danger is double and pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon, way down in the mine.

[raysr]

20. J Cash did that one too

[Az]

18. Images and actual ad

Realtime http://www.ge.com/en/company/companyinfo/advertising/video/modelminers_r300.htm

Windows http://www.ge.com/en/company/companyinfo/advertising/video/modelminers_w300.htm

[Cats Against Frist]

21. You have got to be fucking kidding me.

My daddy was a coal miner for 20 years, and there was NOTHING glamorous about it -- years of union breaking and accidents and job loss. It takes a tougher person than primped-up bags of plastic to hack a coal mine. Though -- I hear technology has made the job a lot easier, these days...:)

[Jim Warren]

19. victoria's secret

is that she has black lung.

[spindoctor]

22. I saw it last night after I read your post.

It's a name brand ad, not so much for coal. Obviously it is somewhat out of touch with reality, but marketing and reality have little in common. Heaven forbid we should buy products based on proved quality and reliability ;)

On a slightly different subject, I hear they are making good progress with "clean" coal power plants in the UK.

[derby378]

24. I call that GE's "Zoolander" coal ad

If you haven't watched Zoolander yet, you must do so. You'll understand. And there's a great anti-corporate riff in there, too.

[xxqqqzme]

25. I saw that the other night

& was dumbfounded by it. And all the gobs 'n gobs of goop left after they 'clean' up the coal - what do U do with that????