Synopsis: Mathias is set on sailing to a better home before the baby is born, a place with eternal Spring where his child will not know the cold of Winter. After a month adrift at sea, he finds the land of his dreams and a discovers a new continent. The North Americas. There, he meets a village of natives who have already claimed it, and eventually, the sagamaw’s son, Allen. You develop a close friendship with him, but Mathias tells him to stay away for his own good. They’re two worlds apart and equally as different, and end up challenging each other on every aspect in life. So as enlightening as it has been for both sides, there’s a reason why they’re separated by an ocean, and Mathias stays true to his path to being the King of Danes.
Word count: 8, 791
Rating: M for slight NSFW
“Arrows that blot out the sun. Seas of soldiers. That is real. War is real. You need to move forward, in our direction.”
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496. A Brief History of Commercials Being Pulled Off the Air
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I love the people in the audience getting pissed awf that the Volvo isn't getting squished!
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This Dial commercial didn't get pulled -- it was just a lady with nothing better else to do who wrote to her local newspaper about it. I watched the commercial, and unless Dial edited the copy I'm looking at, I don't see her going all the way under the water. I just see a sad girl taking a bath. Her dog comes for a visit. She feels better.
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Again, what is wrong with this commercial?! That dress is cute! I seem to remember the Camera being marketed to women, but women can be fashionable too. Memo to AdWeek, how does Cindy Crawford look like Wilma Flintstone?
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I guess I could see people getting mad at this one if they didn't know who Sam Behr was parodying. Don't forget to torque your nuts by hand.
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Another choice that I don't understand. I don't see anything sexually suggestive in this commercial. What is so suggestive about couples walking and a dude playing with BUBBLES.
In closing, two examples of sad, but understandable reasons why commercials were pulled. In the Summer of 1993, Michael Jordan's father was murdered. Jordan's commercials were pulled out of respect.
After Princess Diana was killed in a car accident in the late Summer of 1997, Weight Watchers commercials with her ex sister in law Sarah Ferguson were pulled. There was also a Wendy's commercial with a Queen Elizabeth impersonator that was pulled. (I could not find that commercial)
More Commercials I wanted to find, but couldn't:
This is probably one of those lost media items that we'll never see. Speaking of lost media, why do most lost media fans only focus on cartoons? So weird, kinda annoying. Find this instead of some 2 second commercial for a short lived Saturday morning cartoon.
I want to know what heinous crime the criminal in the commercial was sent to death for. Does anybody remember those Philadelphia Cream Cheese commercials with the angels? I always wonder what they died from. I KNOW they're just actors, but my intrusive thoughts go there!
I found every iteration of this Twix commercial -- except for this one! I attended a women's college my junior and senior year. It was nice to not be made fun of every single day.
At first when I saw what year this was published, I thought people didn't like this commercial because it reminded them too much of the O.J. Simpson trial.
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It was his own fault; he had been so fixated on creating multiple snow sculptures throughout the day off, that he had completely lost track of the day; only on occasion, when he took a photo to upload to social media, did he notice the time. He kept telling himself he would rest after this next one, would grab something to eat after this next one, would get something to drink after this next one...well, the next one came and went, and the next came and went, and the next...and finally, with Skadi's sculpture complete, he noticed the weakened shaking of his hand as he removed his glove to unlock his phone with his thumb print and take a photo.
Oh.
Photo taken and posted, he finally moved to sit on a nearby bench, taking a slow and deep breath, exhaling slowly as he tilted his head back to look at the clear sky of early evening, watching as the fog of breath dissipated in the air for a moment and then bowing his head forward. Tired. He was tired. His legs didn't really want to move anymore. Okay. He would be fine after a few minutes of rest.
"I go dancing with gentle wolves in the moonlight by candlelight when the stars are shimmering on the lake, I prance through the meadows naked by the light of the moon without a trace of hate.. and when the witches brew consumes my life like the stars at night, I am here, I am far, I am finally alive."
In the forest, the fairies rule.. where I use a mushroom as a stool - eUë