I’m a Mac, I’m a PC Japanese ad
It’s kind of weird to see the Get a Mac ads in Japanese. This site has a pretty good write up of what is going on in the ad. It’s a lot subtler than it’s American counterpart. After that, subtlety goes out the window with a Razor Ramon video. HU!*
I’m assuming the one on the left is John Hodgman, expert on all world knowledge (including hoboes) in disguise. **
Also, this commericial cofused me a little. That’s not what a pasocom (Personal Computer, or PC if you will) should look like. It should look more like a pretty lady with cat ears and an Internet connection that is not at all creepy.***
Thanks to Bob of wqoq.com fame for sending me this video to share with you all.
Later Bloggies
* Pronounced FU. I don’t know why, but that’s what we were taught in Japanese class. So, Yahoo is called Yafuu over there. This has been your random fact.
** I just wanted to plug his book. It’s glorious.
*** Unlike certain tv shows about a alien teachers that marries her student, but oh, it’s ok because the student was in a coma for 3 years and is technically an adult.
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