The name of the actress in the Dare Iced Coffee TV ads is

Melanie Vallejo.  You can see her IMDB profile here.  You might have recognised her from the TV series Power Rangers Mystic Force.  (Melanie was the Blue Mystic Ranger).

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YouTube: What Have The Unions Ever Done For Us?

Oh, it’s a rip-off of the Monty Python Life of Brian scene “What have the Romans ever done for us?”, but I still like it.

 

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The Pipkins – Gimme Dat Ding

The lady in green is Eve, and she hosts the twentythreeskidoo YouTube channel.

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I don’t do World of Warcraft, and that’s probably a good thing.

I do miss Advanced Dungeons and Dragons though.

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The Man Who Walked Around The World

Impressive that it was done in one take.

“Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do,

but nobody calls her disabled.”

From TED: Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs — she’s got a dozen amazing pairs — and the superpowers they grant her: speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height … Quite simply, she redefines what the body can be.

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In order to sell hamburgers

McDonald’s has been selling their “Grand Angus” burger here, it’s made from Angus Beef.

Not to be outdone, the Hungry Jack’s chain (it’s the Australian Burger King) retaliated with the Angry Angus:

The consensus at work is that the Grand Angus is the better burger.

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Australia’s GoDaddy

Using sex to sell IT services really turns me off.  It makes me think to myself:

“Is their service so poor, that they need to get my attention some other way.”

Domain Names - Everything you need to get ahead in business - Copy

I’m sure Domain Names you will get people who do think it’s appropriate for you to advertise this way, as you keep doing it.  Just like America’s GoDaddy:

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The name of the actress in the iSelect TV ads is

Camilla Borde-Davis.  Also known as Milli Davis and Camilla Jackson.  You can see her IMDB profile here.

I’m sure this will be a question in a pub trivia night competition sometime soon.

Camiila is known as the iSelect girl, and she pushes the iSelect insurance company product.

She can also be seen in the Jim Bean “The Stalker” ad.

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“Are You The Man?”

I needed an IT problem fixed at a remote site, so I asked the responsible IT guy*, “Are you the man?”.

‘What do you mean?’

“You’re the IT guy for Tennant Creek, so can you fix the problem?”

‘Oh, yeah!’.

“So you are the man then, go fix it.”

If he only saw this IBM advertisement first

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