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Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 3503
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 6:52 pm: |    |
In past years some of the warm weather ads for places like Florida really captured attention because they reflected and played upon the January/February doldrums so effectively. This year's batch of Arizona ads are the least effective ones I've ever seen. They generate no interest or sense of relief whatsoever.
And to whoever made these ads - we don't honk our horns like that. |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2726
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 7:37 pm: | |
Welcome to Arizona. Now go home. |
Rbdetsport
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Username: Rbdetsport
Post Number: 449
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 6:42 pm: | |
I just saw an ad for Arizona the other day. It was called Detroit To Arizona. I was despised. |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2732
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 9:28 pm: | |
On my annual drive to Detroit from Las Vegas, I drive through Arizona without stopping until I hit Gallup, NM. Then I start to feel better.
Apologies to JiminAZ. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1591
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 9:38 pm: | |
I thought Jim was in NM?
Yeah, and I was going to say, those ads are used to lure people like Ray into their crappy climate :-) |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2736
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 9:52 pm: | |
There's a JimnAZ and a JimnNM.
Detroitrise, I spent the whole day outside in shirt sleeves today. Right now at 6:30 the window at my desk is wide open. I thought I saw a cloud, but on closer inspection, it was an aircraft contrail.
Where's this crappy climate? |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1592
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 9:56 pm: | |
It was a joke Ray, i just can't stand dry desert heat all day and night. Of course, that's just me.
Lighten up! :-)
(Message edited by detroitrise on February 16, 2008) |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2738
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 10:03 pm: | |
Woops, I ddn't mean to come across as if on the muscle. Just happened to enjoy a beautiful day today so much that what popped into my head is what came out.
I'm light! I'm light! |
Jimaz
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Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 4561
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 10:16 pm: | |
If you're referring to me, there's no need to apologize, Ray.
I prefer Michigan over Arizona so I understand the idea of different strokes for different folks.
My snowblower technique is improving. Better to make each pass a working pass than to drag the idling hulk backward between each working pass. (Smacks forehead. Doh!)  |
Lilpup
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Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 3506
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 10:20 pm: | |
^^applies to lawnmowers, too |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2741
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2008 - 1:20 pm: | |
If Michigan was the Michigan I know in June, July, August, and September all year around, I'd move back in a heartbeat.
Unfortunately, it is not. |
Vic_doucette
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Username: Vic_doucette
Post Number: 372
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2008 - 1:44 pm: | |
Ray1936, one of the best days of my life was when I saw Gallup in my rear-view mirror for the last time.
If you'd ever lived there, you'd understand ... |
Iheartthed
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Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 2697
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2008 - 2:21 pm: | |
The California ad that plays here in New York has me considering packing my bags and heading west... |
Treelock
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Username: Treelock
Post Number: 275
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2008 - 2:30 pm: | |
Summers in Too-Stoned, Arizona were not my cup of tea. You're talking about basically five or six months of temps above 100 degrees every single day. It doesn't rain except in August when the monsoons come and when they blow over it gets unbearably humid. Meanwhile, there's not a swimming hole anywhere that you'd want to jump in during these months.
While we're all suffering from seasonal affective disorder, I swear the desert southwest has its own seasonal affliction. I swear, the heat really made people crazy. |
Dhugger
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Username: Dhugger
Post Number: 401
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2008 - 2:40 pm: | |
Great Lakes WATER |