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Fortune favors the creative advertiser

Fortune favors the creative advertiser

From a recent Woot ad for the Flip Ultra 60 Camcorder:

GHOST
My hour is almost come,
When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames
Must… hang on, what is that?

HAMLET
A camcorder.

GHOST
Film me not, but lend thy serious hearing
To what I shall unfold.

HAMLET
Dude; I have to vlog this.

GHOST
Rather vlog of revenge, when thou shalt hear.

HAMLET
What?

GHOST
I am thy father’s spirit,
Doom’d for a certain term to walk the night,
And for the day confined to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in- PUT THAT DAMN THING DOWN!

HAMLET
No way! I got this Flip so I could show
The world all the events that I might see
And a ghost might get me linked off Boing Boing!

GHOST
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and- how much room give you they?

HAMLET
About 2 gigs, that’s like an hour’s fun.

The rest of the ad is here. This is one of the best ads I have seen in a long time. Way to go Woot! If the world must endure an endless stream of advertising at every turn, thanks for at least making some of them entertaining. Anyone else seen any creative ads? Feel free to share.

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