Comments on: Real men of Genius http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/09/24/real-men-of-genius/ Learning on Your Terms Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:47:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Ken Carroll http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/09/24/real-men-of-genius/#comment-14138 Ken Carroll Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:38:43 +0000 http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/09/24/real-men-of-genius/#comment-14138 Guys, Excellent. Now it's even funnier. Ken Carroll Guys,

Excellent. Now it’s even funnier.

Ken Carroll

]]> By: Frank http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/09/24/real-men-of-genius/#comment-14137 Frank Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:10:13 +0000 http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/09/24/real-men-of-genius/#comment-14137 Great comment by Art above. I can shed a little more light on this in regards to its cultural literacy. For a long time, Budweiser ran ads that mirrored this exactly. A generic announcer's speech was accented by a musical throwback to the Big Hair era of music. Regardless of how stupid or absurd the announcer's comments were, the singer managed to find some way to sing about it in a really serious and passionate way. It was a brilliant campaign and the ads are actually a hoot to watch and/or listen to. In fact, a quick search on YouTube found me this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKyDkY87h7Y As you can see, the one in your post is a very good parody. Great comment by Art above. I can shed a little more light on this in regards to its cultural literacy.

For a long time, Budweiser ran ads that mirrored this exactly. A generic announcer’s speech was accented by a musical throwback to the Big Hair era of music. Regardless of how stupid or absurd the announcer’s comments were, the singer managed to find some way to sing about it in a really serious and passionate way. It was a brilliant campaign and the ads are actually a hoot to watch and/or listen to.

In fact, a quick search on YouTube found me this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKyDkY87h7Y

As you can see, the one in your post is a very good parody.

]]> By: Art Kho 许冠俊 http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/09/24/real-men-of-genius/#comment-14136 Art Kho 许冠俊 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:00:35 +0000 http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/09/24/real-men-of-genius/#comment-14136 Public schools in the U.S. are funded by real estate taxes. Thus if one lives in a wealthier neighborhood, one's kids get to go to better schools. At the same time, real estate taxes are a sore point with many people, if not all. These taxes keep going up every year. A friend of mine once ran for the school local board in his town with the hopes of stopping what he and his neighbors deem to be additonal funding of the community college's president's pet projects. They also didn't like the high salaries of the president of the community college. They extend the same opposition to the high salaries of high school superintendents and other school officials. Anyway, my friend lost; he wasn't electable. But he and his neighbors won the battle that year to stop the tax increase for the local community college. This sarcastic video is meant to drive home the point that the high local real estate taxes used to fund public schools are not really helping the kids but the school officials, and public officials would cut school services for the kids first before cutting their salaries. Public schools in the U.S. are funded by real estate taxes. Thus if one lives in a wealthier neighborhood, one’s kids get to go to better schools. At the same time, real estate taxes are a sore point with many people, if not all. These taxes keep going up every year. A friend of mine once ran for the school local board in his town with the hopes of stopping what he and his neighbors deem to be additonal funding of the community college’s president’s pet projects. They also didn’t like the high salaries of the president of the community college. They extend the same opposition to the high salaries of high school superintendents and other school officials. Anyway, my friend lost; he wasn’t electable. But he and his neighbors won the battle that year to stop the tax increase for the local community college.

This sarcastic video is meant to drive home the point that the high local real estate taxes used to fund public schools are not really helping the kids but the school officials, and public officials would cut school services for the kids first before cutting their salaries.

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