Day: May 3, 2008

Categories
Advertising Blogging Television

My Favourite Commercial: The Ginsu Knife

In this week’s edition of the always interesting ‘Top 5 Saturday’ over on my buddy Phil’s blog he counts down the 5 most notorious, famous, and infamous inventions of the infomercial era.

The infomercial era on television dates back about 30 years. If you’re old enough then you may remember those classic 90-second commercials from way back then for the Ginsu knife. Those long-form commercials are widely credited to be the inspiration behind the even longer-form infomercials (of 30 minutes in length) that took off late at night on the tube during the 1980s.

Let’s take a look back at this Ginsu knife commercial from 30 years ago in 1978:

Categories
Animals Health Home Travel Weather

The Major’s Walk-A-Thon

Sky: Mostly Cloudy
Temperature: 73°F
Relative Humidity: 77%
Winds: E 5 MPH
Barometric Pressure: 30.02 Rising

My thoughts:

1.  It’s the first Saturday morning of May, and the walk continues. We’re enjoying an unusually cool Spring here in South Florida. Later this month the rainy season should be kicking-off, and that will pretty much bring an end to these weekly walks for the season.

2.  It was another 2.2-mile walk for me this morning, and I did it in 40 minutes flat. That’s an average of 3.3 MPH. I always feel refreshed and alive during and after the walk. I think that’s the whole point of exercising.

3.  U.S. 1 is known as the ’18-Mile Stretch’ from Florida City to Key Largo. I’ve got the ’18-Minute Stretch’. That’s the middle portion of my walk that takes me from the main gate of my neighbourhood, completely around its southern hemisphere, down the spine, and back to the main gate again.

4.  2 little dogs were out for some early-morning shenanigans without their owner. I think they escaped from their patio. They were having a good ole time running all around in the street and on the grass – until they saw me !  That’s when they ran behind me and straight outta sight – probably back to where they belong. I wonder which one of those little dogs was the trouble-maker ?  Which one said to the other one, ‘Hey, follow me. We’re gonna go out and paint this town. We’re gonna go and get us into some monkey business this morning. Let’s go dog !’

5.  Most neighbourhoods have a lack of parking. My neighbourhood has an over-abundance of parking. I think we may even have one parking space for every man, woman, and child that lives here. At least it seems that way.