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Sticking It To The Man

Sprint has a new commercial on tv that I think is great. In it there is some corporate executive sitting at his office when his assistant walks in. The dialogue is something like

Executive: I like Sprint's new fair and flexible plan. It offers me flexibility .... It's my way of sticking it to the man!

Assistant: But sir, you are the man.

Executive: Yes.

Assistant: So you're sticking it to yourself?

Executive: Maybe.

It's quite amusing how media, entertainment, and marketing have thoroughly embraced the counterculture and anti-establishment message of decades past and now use it to promote establishment products and services. We can "stick it to the man" by using Sprint cellular service. It's incredibly silly, but at the same time, pretty funny.

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Comments (4)

Tracy:

And what was the point of this post?

What was the point of your comment?

Tracy:

To belittle your pointless post. Duh.

Tracy:

Ha ha. Vikram likes the ad too. He started laughing when it came on tv so i showed him your blog about it and he liked it. Must be an Indian thing.

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