National Anthem TV Signoff reveals subliminal messaging

[ThrillsNSpills]

Remember TV signoffs?

I'm not posting this to debate whether the technique is effective because you know that's where it's probably going to go anyway.
This is here for the benefit of people who deny the control factor intent of media. (and frankly, who wants to believe any of that?)

and this was in the 60's

[Unchainme]

Why would one be up that late anyways?

I'm being kinda serious. I mean, as a college kid I'll watch Adult Swim during ungodly hours, but I'm living in a different era with satelite TV and the internet.

So what would the us gov't be hoping to accomplish with subliminal advertisements late at night? Was there a direct correlation between hippies being up till 4 in the morning and watching TV?

Seems kind of pointless to do it such a minescule pathetic audience.

NOW, it does exist in the obvious realm though, case in point:

[FORD]

Why would anybody want to eat a chicken sandwich with money in it?

I'm not seeing the point of their subliminal advertising there.

[Nitro Express]

Why would one be up that late anyways?

Having sex of course. But today you are watching an infomercial after the romp session while winding down with a cigarette.

[Nitro Express]

Why would anybody want to eat a chicken sandwich with money in it?

I'm not seeing the point of their subliminal advertising there.

If I pay $4.35 for that sandwich and they put $100 in it. I want that sandwich. Federal Reserve Notes clean up quite nicely since they are cotton fiber based.

[FORD]

If I pay $4.35 for that sandwich and they put $100 in it. I want that sandwich. Federal Reserve Notes clean up quite nicely since they are cotton fiber based.

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that was a $2 bill.....

Oddly enough, while looking for a $2 bill on Google, I stumbled across this old story......

Taco Bell Tries To Bring Back $2 Bill For Publicity Stunt
By Chris Morran on June 9, 2010 2:30 PM


Taco Bell says there hasn't been a new $2 bill printed by the U.S. Treasury since 2006, but if the fast food chain gets their way, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing will be pumping out the notes soon enough — and all in the name of promoting the Bell's discount eats.

In an effort to push their $2 Meal Deal, Taco Bell has not only taken out a full-page ad in USA Today begging for the return of the $2 bill; they've also started a petition to get more of the bills into circulation.

Taco Bell tries to hype up the $2 bill by calling it "Cooler than a $5. Twice as powerful as a $1."

Forgetting TB's PR stunt (which doesn't seem to factor in tax on the Meal Deal), do you think there's any reason for more $2 bills to be in circulation?

TacoBell and KFC are owned by the same mega-corporate conglomerate. Just a coincidence that they both have odd obsessions with an obscure denomination of the "Federal" Reserve Note?

[Nitro Express]

Carrying cash around I have found $100 to be too much and even $50 to be too much. You are still better off with a couple of $20, $10, and $5. $1 are great for avoiding getting too much change back or waiting for someone to break a bill.

Two $1 bills don't take up that much room so the $2 bill never worked and it's there with the Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea dollar.

As far as market research goes I minored in statistics and I think a lot of the sampling done is quite poor. 93% of all new products fail and a lot of those had big expensive market research campaigns behind them. With that kind of record I would say market research is over rated. There are so many variables to how the survey is given, who gives it, how the questions are worded. You will get a different response from a survey giver with big tits opposed to some fat ugly SOB. In my experience, corporate types are just there for the paycheck and to climb the ladder. Everyone does what they do to please the higher ups so really the success of the company has a lot to do with top management more than the marketing department.

[FORD]

The Susan B and Sacajawea dollars were designed to fail. Some people believed it was a racist/sexist thing - nobody wanted a coin with a woman or a non-white person on it - and that probably was the case among the usual teabagger crowd. But more to the point, coins are still minted by the treasury, as opposed to the "Federal" Reserve. If dollar coins replaced dollar "Federal" Reserve Notes, it would take some profit away from the corporate banking cartel that runs the so called "fed".

Our Canadian friends here can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm reasonably sure that paper money in the $1 and $2 denominations is pretty much non-existent now north of the border, and it's all done in coins. They should do the same thing here.... bring back the Eisenhower dollar coin. Or put George Washington on it. Either way is cool with me.

[ashstralia]

in oz we got dollar coins in '84, two buck coins in '88. the brilliant thing is if you chuck your change in a jar at the end of the day, it adds up to a couple of hundred in a good month.

edit; oh yeah, the subliminal thing.... i've got to go to church on my way home from kfc listening to a judas priest album.

[ThatArtGuy]

They had the $1 coin with Washington on it in 2007, but people didn't use them. They're still being minted. In Canada people didn't get the choice, the government stopped making the bills. The only way it'll work in the States is if the same procedure is used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_$1_Coin_Program

[hambon4lif]

They had the $1 coin with Washington on it in the '90's, but people didn't use them.

That's because even with a convenient coin slot contained therein, slipping a dollar into a strippers g-string proved to be a bit awkward.....

[ThatArtGuy]

"By 2010, 1.1 billion uncirculated $1 coins were stockpiled, a quantity that could reach from New Mexico to Chicago. By 2016 this number may reach two billion.

The Federal Reserve in June 2011 issued its annual report on the $1 coin program. The report found that since few people want or use the coins, demand for them is extremely low. So momentum is growing in Congress to end the dollar coin programs because many members believe the coins waste taxpayer money."

[FORD]

They had the $1 coin with Washington on it in 2007, but people didn't use them. They're still being minted. In Canada people didn't get the choice, the government stopped making the bills. The only way it'll work in the States is if the same procedure is used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_$1_Coin_Program

It probably wouldn't hurt if they made them the size of the old school silver dollars again, instead of the "slightly bigger than a quarter" size that all the new attempts since the Susan B dollar have been. Even making it a gold color - as the Sacajawea and Presidential coins were - hasn't helped. People hate the idea that they could throw these things in a machine, have it mistaken for a quarter and lose .75 immediately (even though computerized vending machines should be able to tell the difference.

I know the post office stamp machines give out the dollar coins. Had to buy a book of stamps with a $20 bill a while back, and thought I was at the casino when the change came out.

[FORD]

That's because even with a convenient coin slot contained therein, slipping a dollar into a strippers g-string proved to be a bit awkward.....

Well.... it is true that removing $ 1 bills would have an economic impact on strippers. Hadn't thought about that

[ashstralia]

give 'em a fiver, you cheapskates!!!