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August 17th, 2009 - Jennifer Whitehead

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In spite of our bitching over here at Celebrity Sellout, we do secretly understand why the celebrities do it. Acquistare a buon mercato seroquel, We understand that Ozzy Osbourne gets that he's no longer the bat biting prince of darkness, record sales are dwindling and Mrs O isn't going to agree to fly Ryanair to Poland for her next facelift, Massachusetts MA Mass. . Cheap seroquel without prescription, He needs the cash.

What is harder to understand is the so-called creatives sitting around coming up with their next ad campaign and saying: "Yeah, seroquel online kopen, Montana MT Mont. , wouldn't it be hilarious if we had Ozzy Osbourne. And he did swearing, New Hampshire NH N.H. . And was confused, order seroquel online cheap. Seroquel pedido en línea, And went 'Shaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrroooon!' at the end."

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The ad is wrong for a number of reasons. Firstly, it asks us to believe that Ozzy Osbourne has an interest in mobile phone research and development technology. Then it asks us to believe that chimpanzees are an integral part of the research and development technology. And finally, it asks us to believe that Ozzy Osbourne wouldn't tell a person who uttered the phrase "very cool shortcut widgets" at him to "shutthefuckup".

This is one of a series of ads set in Samsung's R&D department, created by Leo Burnett USA. We're sure that Samsung isn't wasting money on ads or celebrity endorsements that don't work, but nonetheless please, whoever is putting Ozzy Osbourne in all of the ads all of the time, stop it, STOP IT NOW. You have been warned.

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June 19th, 2009 - Geoff Woad

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But whereas we criticise brands for using this default this time I’m going to sympathise with Blizzard, the makers of Warcraft, who are literally raking it in on the back of the game. One can imagine them sitting there saying crikey we’ve got all this money to burn but how can we reach our target audience when they’re all in their bedrooms on the internet.

Ozzy is the obvious answer, and not only because he looks like a character in the game. He’s fairly likely to have some sort of resonance with the target audience who associate him with the MTV programme.

The only problem is the ads say absolutely nothing about the game and the target market will only see it when their mums call them down for their tea.

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April 3rd, 2009 - Geoff Woad

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This news should come as little surprise to most of you but it is finally official: no one is interested in The Osbournes…and selling out could be to blame.

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There are rumours the family were prepared to add extra dogs into the house to put more poops on the carpet, but even that has failed to get the stations back on board, District of Columbia DC D.C. .

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