What the hell is that girl's deal on the Palm Pre commercials?

[LostInAnomie]

Is she supposed to be fucking stoned or drunk? She talks like she just downed a hand-full of quaaludes.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

1. "I was walking in the park the other day. After lunch"..........

Thorazine's a hell of a drug.

[LostInAnomie]

2. Exactly

It's more like this though: "I was walking in the park the other day. (Long pause... Look at phone... Turn around... Look back with eyes half open...) And, I saw a woman juggling. (Even longer pause...) She was very good. (Say "good" with a weird inflection)"

It's exactly what I sound like when I'm trying to tell a story when I'm hammered... without all the swearing.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

4. Seriously, I really believe that's how advertising sees liberals.........

all dreamy-eyed and blissful, waxing poetic about jugglers and reincarnation. I don't mind the model or her delivery so much, but the message feels like pandering to me. I know its just a commercial, but that was my first impression when I saw it.

[pokerfan]

3. stoned immaculate

#1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ywUwca8tSY
#2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3OfYkJbyLw
#3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBOwBNGftAI
#4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Y3zasKbb0

[Tikki]

6. She must have stopped off at the hairdresser on the way outside...

No way can someone stoned do that do themselves....


Tikki

[pokerfan]

9. her hairdresser is also her connection

and now she's atoned and lost in a field...

[hedgehog]

5. Cheap imitation Tilda Swinton

[hedgehog]

7. totally off-topic, but wouldn't Tilda make a great Estraven?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness

Will Smith for Genly Ai,



David Bowi for the King:

[Bunny]

8. She completely creeps me out.

:scared:

[mikeytherat]

10. "When the lab exploded, I lost my eyebrows. Maybe I should call someone."

mikey_the_rat

[csziggy]

16. Am I missing an eyebrow?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5-xS9sDuLg

[derby378]

11. I don't know, but here's the song they play in every ad she appears in

What's in a name?
Face on a stage, where are you now?
Memory fades
You take a bow
Here in the dark
Watching the screen
The curtain falls
The final scene

And we go doot
Doot-doot
And we go doot
Doot-doot

Look at them fall
Flicker and fade gone are the screams
Put them to bed now they are dreams

And we go doot
Doot-doot
And we go doot
Doot-doot

Doot
Doot-doot
Doot
Doot-doot
Doot
Doot-doot
Doot
Doot-doot

[MilesColtrane]

12. She's hosting an alien brain-eating parasite.

They bore into the earpiece of the Pre and wait for their victim to answer a call.

[petronius]

13. The picture looks like a Founder from DS9

Enter into the Great Link, and all will be made clear...

[RandomThoughts]

14. In social interaction, a pattern break, or a change in what people usually do

can get people to pay more attention and be more susceptible to suggestion.

In the case of her cadence, she says something then pauses, and your mind wants to here the rest of the thought, because she stopped in mid sentence, so your mind ticks up attention like it missed something said.

There seems to be an alteration of the actual video also, where a smoothness is added, which also adds to break a pattern and get attention from viewer.

Also saying something with no meaning adds to kick start the part of the mind that thinks, since the part of brain that tries to figure something out is put in gear when something does not seem to make sense. Although layers and spirals can create things like people stuck in a 'while loop' or infinite loop, which is really interesting also. Much of 'bat shit crazy' is people stuck in a while loop, and for me some of my limitations in work life are also a while loop. So it is a really common thing.

Here is an example of a potential birther while loop.

1)If accept President Obama is good president, then ideas about some people, and self thoughts about what Americans really think about opinions of own ideas, must be wrong.
.....2)Think if maybe ones own positions or thoughts might be questionable or even wrong.
.....3)Devastating ego loss from thinking one is wrong might shatter ones own world.
.....4)Grab anything that allows not to think he is President.
.....5)Learn the birther argument is ridiculous.
.....6)Realize President Obama is president.
.....7)Cannot accept that, jump to line 1.



Not sure if that is why they did it.

[Iggo]

15. "I fear the wind..."

;-)

[SeattleGirl]

17. She is very weird.

I find the commercials somewhat disturbing.