Will You Marry Me?

People are always trying to find interesting ways to propose. Although mostly clever and succesfsul, this has lead to a lot of public marriage announcements that have gone horribly, horribly wrong.

In the following cases, these clever guys used advertising, through media both old and new, to publicly pop the quesiton:

Chicagoan Eric Anderson proposed to girlfriend with bus-stop ad [via AdFreak]

Fred Ehrhart used online banner ads to propose to his girlfriend, and asks tweeters to tweet-encourage her to #sayyesd [via AdFreak]

Is There an App for That?

"Ad speak."

We've all encountered it. Not all of it is necessarily easy to understand, so this should keep you entertained:

Get this and three more, courtesy of Zach Golden. Also, feel free to go for the slightly less classy WalMart Bingo.

What if it all came true?

As one unfortunate employee found out after updating her Facebook with a negative job-related comment, what happens in the social media realm affects us in real life.

This is a funny scenario of social media effecting our lives to the extreme:

It's happened to all of us.

Recession Jokes

Last night, Taco Bell aired a new ad, a rap video called "It's All About the Roosevelts" during the All Star game. In short, it's a price-point rap parody:



Slightly reminiscent of:

1) SNL's "Lazy Sunday"
"You can call us Aaron Burr from the way we're dropping Hamiltons."

2) JWT's Green Tea Partay for Smirnoff
"Here's to homies on lock for insider trading."