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Important info for anyone considering punching the ad men
The ad agency is Devito/Verdi. The Globe just did fluff piece on them: http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/09/17/bgcom-devito/FJuudJCQh4c7...
In brief, they make controversial ads and try to get a rise out of people. They aren't being assholes of course, because New Yorkers (and yeah, they're New Yorkers) are never assholes - they're edgy and cut against the grain.
I will give props to the Verdi guy in the Globe's pic, kinda has a Bill Murray thing going on...Maybe Suffolk should get Bill Murray to do theirs ads next time.
And the other guy, DeVito
looks like Richard Dreyfuss.
Being an asshole
in the name of being "edgy and cut against the grain" is still being an asshole.
Someday everyone will figure this out and we'll stop putting up with asshole who can justify their behavior with avant-garde buzzwordisms.
Gee, dad died, time to go to school
Not that Mom has any money or anything.
These are differently obnoxious than the Cambridge College ads a few years back - the ones that implied that a degree from them meant that you would get to wear horrendously uncomfortable footwear for the rest of your life. Yippee!
So, how many more weeks
until the T actually removes all these ads from the system. I'm still seeing ads on the Green Line promoting the UMass/BC Battle Of The Bay State football game that was played almost three weeks ago.
Mass Judges and Suffolk
My favorite was the one that pointed out that Suffolk put more judges on the Massachusetts bench than all the Ivy League schools combined.
New slogan: Suffolk Law School--Hacked Up and Proud of It!
New Slogan
"Gardner District Court -- HERE I COME!!"
hits too close to home for
hits too close to home for trust-funded progeny?
I wouldn't know.
I wouldn't know.
The ad is targeting students
The ad is targeting students who have had a parent die... That's quite a bit different then taking a shot at trust fund babies. I would hardly think you want to say that a person who lost a father is somehow incapable of earning their success like this ad suggests.
I don't think the ads are saying that...
...the rich students' parents are dead, rather that they will have a big inheritance in the future and therefore do not have to learn the value of hard work. Anyway, I think the ads were lousy because they make the Suffolk students look jealous of the elite-school students by mocking them. It's kind of silly. Don't you think a Suffolk student would go to Harvard if he could get in? Suffolk is not cheap, but since they don't have a huge endowment, they cannot give the financial aid that the Harvards' can. I bet there are many, many Suffolk students paying more in tuition than Harvard students and they probably aren't wearing designer clothes because of that, not because they don't want to.
If that's accurate about Suffolk students
what does it say about New England School of Law students? They are all homeless orphans?
Combat zone strippers
Combat zone strippers actually
Just ask them...
... to show you their "legal briefs."
High-yo!
High-yo!
What is your obsession with
What is your obsession with this money? My father died when I was 13 and I inherited this money. You don't think that every day I wake up and wish I could give it back? That I would give it back in a second if I could have one more day with him? But I can't, and that's my life and I deal with it. So don't put your shit on me when you're the one that's afraid.
Sorry about your father
But who, exactly, are you aiming your ire at? The ad? Adam? The World?
I think the general feeling here is that the ads are inappropriate and nasty.
Clearly directed at
Clearly, it's directed at the criminals of Gotham City.
Good Will Hunting
That's from Good Will Hunting... not Batman.
OHHHH
Hmmm I think I saw that one. Jeff Bridges tries to stop Tommy Lee Jones from blowing up Charlestown, right? Good flick.
Movie reference goes woosh by
Movie reference goes woosh by Swirly lol.
I dun got barreled
Whoosh. Sorry. I've only seen it twice - not like Monty Python.
Point of Order
If you are going to regularly post to this cite, please be aware of the requirement that, prior to posting, you have committed to memory the entire script, and preferably screen play and blocking sequence, of Good Will Hunting. One should be able to recite, and preferably pantomime, the entire film from start to finish.
Sightations, Please?
Before you cite things on this site, you might keep your homophones in sight.
What do you want to hear?
That I'm a fucking orphan? That Adrian Peterson was my fuckin dad?
... paraphrasing of course.
You're suspect!
Yeah, you! I don't know what your reputation is in this town, but after the shit you tried to pull today you can bet I'll be looking into you. Now the business we have, heretofore, you can speak with my aforementioned attorney. Good day, gentlemen; and until that day comes, keep your ear to the grindstone.
Of course the South Boston
Of course the South Boston bashers memorize and quote Good Will Hunting in the mirror.
Movies
I've also enjoyed movies about Rwanda, Vietnam, and the surface of Mars; that doesn't mean I'd ever want to live in those places
Suffolk University: Ha Ha, My Daddy's Still Alive.
Suffolk University: Ha Ha, My Daddy's Still Alive.
Subliminal Star Wars Suggestion?
When I see these posters out of the corner of my eye, I keep getting a Star Wars vibe from the people seated at the conference table.
Clearly, your continued obsession
with Massachusetts based law schools still has not gotten us the location of the secret plans for this battle station.
Obi-Wan Never Told You What
Obi-Wan Never Told You What Happened to Your Father.
Search your feelings. You know it be true.
Learn more at suffolk.edu
Reverse snobbery is an old marketing gimmick
"You're not one of those silver-spoon Harvard types: you earn it yourself."
See also: lawnmower beers, Levi's, etc.
Never understood the annoyance
It's another boring advertisement. Didn't phase me. Not because I am the son of a rich dad. Hell, my father disappeared before I remember him, never paid a cent of child support and the best inheritance from him was his death.
It's just a advertisment throwing darts at strawmen.
On the the hand there are people who get into fancy colleges because their parents went there and/or because their parents are rich, regardless of whether they have the academic ability. Fair? Heck no. Such is life.
What do these advertisements boil down to? Just more visual pollution.
My dad died too young (54)
My dad died too young (54) and while I'm not horribly scarred by these ads, I do find them to be in incredibly poor taste.
Most people my age can expect to be 50 or 60 years old before daddy's "will" is likely to have any impact on their finances. But obviously that girl in the ad who's even younger than me kept her dad alive through sheer bootstrappiness. Dang, wish I thought of that before my dad died of colorectal cancer.
It's not the worst thing on the T but it's horrifically tone-deaf and goes out of its way to denigrate young people who have lost parents long before their time. My parents weren't rich and I don't get to be some independently-wealthy degree collector the rest of my life, but I guess I'm supposed to be happy he's dead? Whut?
This is the
school that has a pay for play think tank that if paid enough will produce a "white Paper" telling you that cancer is good for you.
What better training for future
defense attorneys can there be than that.