A digital commonplace for a Regular Guy called Charlie Pharis

Month: February 2006 (page 3 of 3)

Note to Self, Part 567…

Excuse the interruption…

When they look you in the eye and say, “I don’t do that stuff anymore,” and then proceed to post photographic “evidence” on the web, you can’t – and won’t – trust anything else they ever say.

Just a thought…let the reader understand…

We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog perusal. Thank you.

Unscientific Super Bowl Research…

We had our own little “Soup-er Bowl” get-together at our church last night. In preparation for the evening, the lovely and gracious “Mrs. Just Charlie” and I were out Saturday getting decorations, etc.

Here’s what I discovered…

  • Hardly anyone in Atlanta is/was a Seahawks fan. We found tons and tons of Seahawks banners, pennants, signs, window decals, etc. Right next to them were the empty spaces that once held the same amount of Steelers banners, pennants, signs, window decals, etc. They were sold out at almost every place we went!
  • The Steelers fans in Atlanta are absolutely, positively crazy! You could tell who had been buying the sold-out Steelers paraphernalia – they were walking/driving around with all that stuff on their cars, their bodies, their kids, and yes, their pets!
  • Regardless of which team you root for – or don’t root for – that “Made in China” officially-licensed NFL stuff is way overpriced! And some of it reminded me of that old George Carlin line…

    If you put together two things that have never been put together before, some schmuck will buy it!

Well, enough Super Bowl stuff for me for another year. I didn’t really have a dog in the fight, and since I had jumped on the Steelers bandwagon earlier, the game turned out OK by me.

And actually, after a wintry day’s worth of “research,” I’ve about changed my tune on the commercials, too. They weren’t all that bad.

Hurry Up! There’s a Run on Milk and Bread…


OK, it’s snowing here in north Georgia. It’s coming down pretty good for our neck of the woods. It looks cool and all that. But it can go ahead and get to 70 degrees as far as I’m concerned.

Oh, and I betcha if you go to our usual local mega-mart right now, you’ll have a real hard time finding bread or milk. I’ve always wondered why there’s a run on bread and milk when wintry weather comes to our neck of the woods. Milk and bread. Whatcha gonna do with milk and bread if the power goes out?

Not-So-Super Super Bowl Ads…

OK, I didn’t see very many of this year’s crop of Super Bowl commercials in “real time” – that is, I didn’t watch but a few minutes of the game – so I had to check ’em out this morning.

Fortunately, you can see ’em all in a convenient package over at Google Video.

UPDATE: A more complete catalogue is available over at iFilm.

I’m the guy who cares more about the ads than the game, and I just felt a little…underwhelmed this time around.

Having said that, my favorites were the Budweiser Wave and Clydesdale American Dream ads.

Some of the others were amusing. Some were pretty silly. But, hey, what do I know? Somebody somewhere thought they were worth $2.5 million per 30 seconds.

A couple of other related thoughts…

The Burger King king is still the creepiest ad character.

And,

Doesn’t anybody have any new ideas for movies these days?