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techstepgenr8tion
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 Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 3:01 am Post subject: Geico Gecko voiceover |
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| Geez, thought I'd enlighten you guys to something. Anytime I'd hear the Geico Gecko talking on the insurance commercials, I would have *sworn*, I was telling people it was Marc Warren from Hustle (Danny Blue), turns out it was Jake Wood. Seriously though, anytime I see these commercials I still keep thinking its Marc, decided to finally do a bit of research just because - I just saw Wanted today and it made me curious enough to actually check and see if I was right. |
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hedgie
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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 your post came to me in a google alert on marc warren - otherwise i was unaware of this forum - so thanks!! I have an 11 year old son with aspergers  |
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techstepgenr8tion
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| I'm happy for you, but at the same time I do find it creepy at just how much priority some of our posts will get on search engines. A lot of us, particularly faking it well, never want to share this much information about ourselves with the rest of the world (ie. having AS, its that big of a deal to us) so it is unsettling to be able to look up a music topic and see one of our own posts front page. Not much you can really do about it I guess :/. |
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Veresae
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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Hah, yeah, it IS creepy how easy it is to find our posts on google....
Anyway this is kinda random but I like the old geicho gecko better. The new one looks too stylized. |
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Belfast
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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I was curious to learn that Jake Wood's the voice of that ad creature. The ads annoy me, but I had wondered who was providing the voice at different times-in case they were familiar. I consider Jake Wood intriguing from his appearances in that French educational soap Cafe des Rives & on Red Dwarf. Thanks for the info.
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http://adtunes.com/
has forums in which music in ads is discussed, but also makes mention of who does voice overs. That's where I found out which celebrity's voices were behind v/o's in ads for a credit card & a nasal spray. I'm pretty good at identifying voices, but hadn't quite gotten those.
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hedgie
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| techstepgenr8tion wrote: | | I'm happy for you, but at the same time I do find it creepy at just how much priority some of our posts will get on search engines. A lot of us, particularly faking it well, never want to share this much information about ourselves with the rest of the world (ie. having AS, its that big of a deal to us) so it is unsettling to be able to look up a music topic and see one of our own posts front page. Not much you can really do about it I guess :/. |
I can understand your finding it creepy....it's *always* creepy finding out words and thoughts you posted, thinking they are private, are not private at all. Thats the internet for ya. Nothing is sacred. I don't know how these things work really, but maybe theres some way to remove "meta tags". Don't ask me how! I'm only repeating what someone else said about wanting to use meta tags to get onto more search engines. I really haven't a clue how it all works, but it does seem to me one ought to be able to exclude a forum from search engines. Especially one with a delicate or personal subject matter.
On the other hand....think of the help that might come to a person (like me!) from an unexpected source. I for one want/need to learn/connect on all I can on the subject. Thats your double edged sword, eh? Anyway....I'm so glad to have found this place, and have only begun to scratch the surface here. For instance....service dogs! I had no idea there were service dogs trained as companions/helpers of (whats the proper term? Aspies?) Aspergers people. COOL! Must read more.....
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techstepgenr8tion
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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You know, I actually had some cafepress tshirts a long time ago and was looking at the possibility of actually paying for linkage to yahoo or google search engines. Back then, knowing what I know about it now, I would have just made a wrongplanet post devoted to it  . |
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hedgie
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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lol....of course murpheys law dicatates that it won't work when you want it to!  |
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MsTriste
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Madagascar gold dust day gecko - I think it's the one they've modeled if after - an absolutely beautiful animal:
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techstepgenr8tion
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| MsTriste wrote: | Madagascar gold dust day gecko - I think it's the one they've modeled if after - an absolutely beautiful animal:
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Aww....cute. Can you train it to lick its eyeballs? |
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Veresae
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I have one. Well, it's not mine, but it's my families. Can't really be trained to lick its eyes but it does it all the time anyway. |
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