#pitchwoman

[waynelvslcy]

Mother and daughter pitch woman. In 1963, Lucille endorsed Pepsodent toothpaste as a tie-in to her movie, 'Critics Choice'. She filmed a lengthy two minute commerical for the movie and similar one minute commercials were packaged with 'The Lucy Show'. It would appear that Lucy's relationship with Lever Brothers lasted many years since Lucie would also pitch Pepsodent for 'Here's Lucy' in the early 1970's. #lucilleball #luciearnaz #pitchwoman #commercials #vintagecommercial #pepsodent #toothpaste #toothpastecommercial #pearlywhites #thelucyshow #hereslucy #criticschoice #motheranddaughter #waynelvslcy #spokesperson #advertising https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpk5l5vuLkK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[transit-fag]

Ding Dong That fucking Bitch is dead

[roughtradesaint]

Anita Bryant Dead: Pop Singer Turned Anti-Gay Rights Crusader Was 84

Anita Bryant Dead: Pop Singer Turned Anti-Gay Rights Crusader Was 84 https://search.app/A3QWUEQNoyCDkG7s7

[xena-wolfgang]

fuck yeah!! i hope she gets a million pies to the face on her arrival in hell

[podgoldenrod]

Happy Wednesday! It's round two of casting announcements. Please give a warm welcome to Loretta Chang as Doralynn Belisle, M. L. Earhart as ?̶̶̡͇̹̳̙͉͚̤̭͕͕̰͇̟͂ͪ̓͆̂̒̀͑ͥ͗ͪ̀?̶̢̤̦͖̠͌̔?̴̷̧͇͇̜̟̤͉̣͆ͦ̔̑̈́́́͋͐ͤ̆̈́̿̕̕͠, Katie Marie as the Pitchwoman, and Bryan Sfara as Drew Kemp-Hendry!

Stay tuned for more! 🏚️🎙️🌲🔥❤️‍🔥

[belanova]

BIGOT DOWN!!!!!!

[aldryx-the-agender-blender]

I made a Dreadnought Despair TalentSwap AU for fun and uh-

@dreadnought-despair

Tim: Ultimate Paparazzi

Aoi: Ultimate Librarian (PROTAG AOI-)

Gugalanna: Ultimate Pathologist

Honoka: Ultimate Luchadora (Oh no-)

Ishi: Ultimate Tech Support (PFFT-)

Jurou: Reserve Course Student

Kapono: Ultimate Ikebana Artist

Michi: Ultimate Roller Derby Jammer

Nikola: Ultimate Knitter

Ping: Ultimate Paleontologist (Human Ping?)

Riko: Ultimate Operatic Tenor

Salvatore: Ultimate ??? (ROBOT SAL??)

Siegfried: Ultimate Chainsaw Artist (That's scary-)

Tiffani: Ultimate TV Pitchwoman (PFFTHAHAHA-)

Vasundhara: Ultimate Tap Dancer (OH NO)

Yusra: Ultimate Aerospace Engineer

Enjoy my random input for some of these swaps lmao

[alphastruck]

Well, you spent the change you picked up back at the vending machines, so all that leaves you with are the Trapmine, the Scrambler, and the ID cards you picked up off those dead scientists way back when you first woke up. You have a feeling you’ll need the former two for something...but you’ve found you can get pretty much anywhere you need to go on your own, either by cracking doors or just breaking them down. So that leaves you with one thing.

You don’t know how good you are as a pitchwoman, but you don’t see any other options. Time to channel those Komato ads you’ve seen...

IJI: Uh...hello, g-good sir or madam! Can I interest you in some...uh...some, uh, DCMFPR...Facility...trading cards? Yeah, t-that’s it?

BERSERKER: Trading cards? What?

IJI: Why...for a low, LOW price, YOU - yes, YOU - could come home with all the information you can f-fit in your pocket about the employees here at the Facility! They’re informative, collectable, portable, AND they’re printed on museum-quality p-plastic!

BERSERKER: ...Huh? Why would I want to know about that? Why should I care about a bunch of dead humans?

IJI: You n-never know! You’ll be unbeatable at trivia! Why, did you know that Sonya Plait’s ID n-number is 499103?

BERSERKER: Who?

IJI: Uh...Yes! Your f-friends won’t know that, but YOU will! Wow them with our amazing knowledge! T-Those are just SOME of the amazing facts you’ll learn if you pick up DMFPR Facility Trading Cards! Be the...er, be the envy of everyone your block, yeah! For our new, special, limited-time offer, we’ll give you, uh, t-three cards for FREE! Yes, you heard me right! Absolutely FREE, no questions asked! Start your collection today!

BERSERKER: ...Okay, maybe just this once...

IJI: EXCELLENT! You have no idea what a wonderful purchase you’ve just made!

BERSERKER: But I didn’t buy anything-!

IJI: Gotta go now! See you!

BERSERKER: ...I still don’t get it.

That was a close one, but you think you got through it reasonably okay! Thank goodness you’re dealing with a bunch of intergalactic anarcho-capitalist arms dealers, or that might not have worked. Now you just have to get caught up with the others.

IJI: Hey guys! How’s it-

VATEILIKA: How does it look!?

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[deramin2]

Anita Bryant Get Fucked Day has come early this year!

Dead at the tragically old age of 84.

Happy Anita Bryant Get Fucked Day to all who celebrate

[ID: Close up of Anita Bryant sitting at a conference table. She is a conservative mid-1970s 37-year old white woman with poofy neck length auburn hair and big earrings. A man's arm shoves a pale fruit pie in her face and she reacts with shock, turning and covering her face. End ID.]

On October 14, 1977, Anita Bryant was giving a press conference as the founder of Save Our Children, an anti-gay hate group who campaigned for discriminatory laws.

This particular night, gay activist Thom Higgins walked up and shoved a pie in her face to make a mockery of her and her bigotry. She's visibly shaken, and tries to lead a prayer of forgiveness for him (which comes across as pretty insincere).

It was such a PR nightmare for her that it effectively ended her career and successfully deplatformed her.

Thom Higgins remains an iconic a queer legend long after his death in 1994.

More about Anita Bryant's power and place in the cultural zeitgeist of 1977 and how even an intently silly protest has true power to influence public perception of bigots. (Including news footage of the incident.)

And here's the longer NBC archival footage.

[berniesrevolution]

Imagine a country where climate change policy is at the forefront of everyone’s minds, a majority of Americans earn a living wage working jobs that don’t destroy the planet, and Republicans pay dearly for resisting the society-wide shift. Though this is clearly not our current reality, excitement is building on the left for a policy that proponents believe could transform the US economy, along with the political narrative on climate action. That policy, which includes moving to 100 percent clean energy in ten years, is known as a “green new deal.”

It would, according to supporters, also guarantee a government-funded green job for any American who wants one. This could mean installing solar panels or wind turbines, but also making buildings more energy-efficient, removing lead from schools, growing healthy organic food, or doing “green-collar” work developing, for instance a marketing plan for non-ecosystem-wrecking companies. By some people’s definition teaching and childcare are “green jobs” too, owing to their low carbon footprint and social-fabric-building function.

At a televised town hall event in Washington, DC, on Monday with Bernie Sanders, Van Jones, Bill McKibben, and others, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—who is becoming a key green new deal pitchwoman—explained the core of the idea: “We would put a lot of people to work… that is what this is about.”

The idea of a massive stimulus package capable of shifting the US off fossil fuels is not exactly new. Thomas Friedman called for it back in 2007, and it was the logic of Barack Obama’s green stimulus package (which fell short of its ambitious promises). But current momentum for a green new deal only really began on November 13. That was when 200 activists with the millennial-led Sunrise Movement flooded the offices of House speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi to demand that she make the policy a central Democratic priority. Ocasio-Cortez showed up, a move that attracted mainstream interest.

“This proposal is just over two weeks old and we’ve already seen it gain a lot of traction,” Stephen O’Hanlon, a Sunrise organizer, told me. “Dozens of [congress] members are talking to us and are interested in the proposal.” On November 30, Ocasio-Cortez and eight other representatives, including her fellow left-wing incoming Democratic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, held a press conference calling for House Democrats to convene a select committee on a green new deal. Dozens environmental, racial justice, and labor groups are now supporting the idea.

It goes without saying the odds of a federal green new deal being passed anytime soon are slim. President Donald Trump, along with most Republicans, doesn’t accept the reality of climate change. Even enthusiastic supporters like Naomi Klein figure that the Democratic establishment “will probably squash [it].” But people aren’t excited about a green new deal because it will immediately result in legislation—they’re inspired by the progressive vision it offers.

In the past week, I spoke with political and economic experts who think this policy could be a blueprint to fighting climate change and inequality at the same time. It has potential, they said, to build a multiracial working-class movement, make climate a key issue in 2020, and put the GOP on the defensive.

Lawrence Harris knows that a green job is not only about fixing the environment. It can also turn your life around. After serving 14 years in prison for a drug charge, Harris, who was born in the South Bronx, didn’t have many job prospects. But he now leads a team of 40 people in New York who help the city achieve a better relationship with the natural world. That might mean building big urban farms on public housing property or handing out energy efficient lightbulbs in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Red Hook; Harris's work has also included convincing a guy who held a gun at him to attend an information session for his Green City Force group.

During one job Harris coated rooftops with a sun-reflecting material, which helps the buildings conserve energy. “All these rooftops have stories,” he explained in Sierra magazine. “You find bullets on them; people have done animal sacrifices up there. But what really shook me was 40 stories up in Harlem, looking across the skyline at New Jersey. It was amazing. Not long before that I was staring at a cell wall in a maximum security prison.”

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[scottbcrowley2]

New GoDaddy ad shows longtime pitchwoman Danica Patrick as businesswoman - Mon, 12 Feb 2018 PST

Danica Patrick and GoDaddy show the growth of their brands in a bright, new commercial that features Patrick’s transition to life off the track. New GoDaddy ad shows longtime pitchwoman Danica Patrick as businesswoman - Mon, 12 Feb 2018 PST

[somerandomolddude]

My Favorite British Sitcoms - As Time Goes By

Hello.

Maybe you’ve seen some of these on your local PBS channel. Maybe you caught an episode in syndication one on of the countless channels beamed across the airwaves. 

I stumbled across this one years ago, during one of my fairly regular sleepless nights. It’s “As Time Goes By”.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105943/

(Characters - Jean (seated), L-R - Sandy, Lionel, Alistair, Judith)

Dame Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer portray the leads, Jean and Lionel. It’s a mature series, but not in a vulgar way. 

With minimal spoilers, it’s like this. During the Korean War era, Lionel and Jean met in London as young adults. Jean was in nursing school, Lionel was in the National Service (British Army). It was mutual love at first sight. 

A week after their meeting, Lionel was posted to South Korea. Each tried to correspond to the other, their respective letters were lost in transit, and each assumed the other lost interest. 

Jean and Lionel went on to their own paths. Jean became a nurse, and later opened a secretarial business. Lionel went on to manage a coffee plantation in Kenya (!). Each went through the ups and downs of adult life. 

Decades later, Lionel retired and moved back to London. He had an idea to write a memoir. Not being an adept typist, he hired a secretarial company to transcribe his manuscript. The company sent an attractive young brunette to pitch their business to Lionel...

During the series, we meet interesting characters, like:

Sandy (Jenny Funnell) - the efficient secretarial business office manager

Alistair (Philip Bretherton) - the rich, flirtatious publishing house CEO who takes interest in Lionel’s manuscript

Judith (”Judy” - Moira Brooker) - the business pitchwoman who has a thing for older men

Rocky & Marge (Frank Middlemass & Joan Sims) - Lionel’s parents, well-off retirees who are always up for interesting adventures & experiences

Mrs. Bale (Janet Henfrey) - the long-time, hyper-efficient housekeeper of the Hardcastle country estate

At its heart, it’s a love story. But, there are some funny moments & recurring gags, to include:

Lionel’s curmudgeonly nature & affinity for custard tarts

Jean’s penchant for preposterous cover stories when she’s stressed by her former sister-in-law Penny (Moyra Fraser)

Alistar’s effervescent personality & attempts at hipness

Mrs. Bale’s obsession with the British Shipping Report

Penny’s husband Stephen (Paul Chapman), a highly-successful dentist who once accidentally declined a Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Lionel’s numerous attempts to finish the only joke he knows, the one about “the parrot with no feet”

I’ve seen every episode, including the reunions, at least twice. Like many British shows, the dialogue comes quick and smart. There is a laugh track, but it’s used sparingly. 

One neat benefit - there’s rarely any “precocious”, loud-mouthed kids or adolescents trying to steal scenes. 

To me, it’s a relief to see a show with adults dealing with adult issues in an adult manner. 

For what it’s worth, I’d definitely recommend “As Time Goes By”. It’s decidedly different from what most people consider a current sitcom style. It may not be for everyone, but I love it. 

v/r

[mondonews]

Kayleigh McEnany’s sister touts ‘non-woke’ dating app backed by Peter Thiel: ‘No pronouns necessary’

Kayleigh McEnany’s sister touts ‘non-woke’ dating app backed by Peter Thiel: ‘No pronouns necessary’

The sister of former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is a pitchwoman for “The Right Stuff,” a new dating app geared toward conservatives that is partly funded by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel. “Other dating apps have gone woke. We bring people together with shared values and similar passions.” Ryann McEnany, who is the digital marketing and brand communications strategist and…

[jkanelis]

Mayor as a pitchwoman?

Mayor as a pitchwoman?

I might be the only person on God’s good Earth to feel this way, but I’ll express it anyway. I was driving around Amarillo in Big Jake, my big ol’ pickup, when I heard a voice on the radio; I am going to paraphrase what I heard. “I’m Ginger Nelson,” the voice intoned, “and if you’re going to receive friends and family here, I recommend that they stay” at a certain hotel. The ad took me aback.…