Of all the Super Bowl commercials, the Clydesdale one was deemed the best by USAToday’s poll. Regarding the ad’s solicitation of a name for the horse, I was at Guy Distributing yesterday discussing it with Brenda and suggested that we enter either George or Buzzy as our nominees.
While I enjoyed the ad, I found myself thinking about the story of the man who removed the thorn from the elephant’s foot and then years later… Read for yourself as to the rest of the story (click here.)
Re: “rest of the story” a la Paul Harvey, I thought that the farmer commercial was ok at first but after awhile it got on my nerves. Now that I think about it however, that kind of sums up how I’ve always viewed or listened to Paul Harvey – a little of him went a long ways. Didn’t take long for the parodies to hit the airwaves: 