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[spoekalb]

Vonage: http://vonage.com/commercials.php
Qwest: http://www.qwest.com/spirit/
Some PAC*BELL ads (and an IBM loves linux ad): http://erik.tjernlun...t/slask/reklam/

Might be worth archiving for future phone phreaks

Feel free to post links to telco ads below.

[Abstruse]

I'd love to get a "reach out and touch someone" commercial for nefarious editing purposes if anyone has one...

The Abstruse One

[spoekalb]

I have a handful of AT&T newspaper and magazine ads with that slogan, I'll upload them when I get home from school.

[BlackRatchet]

http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com has a few.

such as:



/bites tounge regarding nuns 'reaching out and touching' little girls...
//punches ticket to hell for typing that
///Hey, when the fsck did I become a "rekcah-rebÜ"? missed that milestone...
////I wonder how many slashes I can do...
/////Cheese is yummy
//////I'm having a bagel right now and a coffee
//////OK... OK... Enough

[I-baLL]

"Halo, everybody, halo?"

Worst pun ever.

[BlackRatchet]

Is advertising /anything/ but bad puns?

Also, I forgot I had this, audio from a old New England Telephone TV spot.

[spoekalb]

(Turns out these are from The Bell System Memorial)

You'd think that with 180MB of these things I would have more "Reach out and touch someone" ads, but I do not. After a little bit of googling it looks like the slogan came out in the 1980s, and most of my ads are black and white...

Edit: Oh, about advertising puns. Qwest is the worst. The most recent batch in my collection are the following:
Worth gets his money's worth with DirecTV service. You can too.
Penny Olsen saves a pretty penny on high-speed internet from Qwest. You can too.
James Moore gets more value with Qwest Wireless. Now, you can too.

Music and Videos: (If these don't work, go here: http://www.80stvthem...om/commercials/ )
http://www.80stvthem...a/REACHTOUCH.ra
http://www.80stvthemes.com/ra/BELL.ra
http://www.80stvthem.../BELLSYS1983.ra
http://www.bellsyste...stem_ads-1.html

Edited by BlakeOPS, 25 March 2005 - 04:40 PM.

[phizone]

Here's some old ads:
http://www.archive.o...er=Televisi1970

and a short film to teach you to use that new-fangled rotary dial:
http://www.archive.o...er=DialComesToT