Comments on: They see guns the way I see wine

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:25:57 +0000

Usually foreign French wines are bad quality, cause they are an export, and pricey to boot. Californian wines are domestic and local and the people I know buy them, probably from the personal vineyards owned by a single person or family.

there was some gun company (H&K?) that produced an ad with the bullets in the magazine pointing the wrong way

Blackfive had a funny discussion about that, I recall. Or maybe it was VC.

By: ProtestShooter

ProtestShooter — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:03:18 +0000

I’m sure it’s just a stock photo. It shows a certain sloppyness in that if I were producing such a mailer in such a close race I’d find some hunter to ask if there was anything subtle I did wrong that he might catch. This sort of thing happens enough that I would hope somebody would know there’s the potential for a gaffe.

Similarly the way I used to buy wine was I asked a wine-drinking friend for a couple of decent brands that weren’t very expensive. These days I actually still remember those brands to some extend, but I’ve broadened it out to basically be something affordable with a nice label where I know where it was made. (As in, I’ve been to the specific town in Napa/Sonoma if they list one, or just Napa/Sonoma county is OK too).

But getting back to the gun photo – there was some gun company (H&K?) that produced an ad with the bullets in the magazine pointing the wrong way – the photographer must have really crammed them in there – and nobody caught it either at the gun company or the gun magazines it showed in, and I think everybody forgave them after a good laugh.

By: suek

suek — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:35:08 +0000

Heh. Years ago when I was a fairly newly married 2nd Lt’s wife, we moved to Germany, and moved into an apartment “on the economy”, since military housing wasn’t available in less than 15 months. On the corner down the street was a fairly small store that sold wine. We couldn’t afford much more than hot dogs and hamburger, but with the DM at 4 to 1, we _could_ afford wine. They had racks and racks of wines. I knew absolutely _nothing_ about wines. My mother drank Rancho Cucamonga jug wine. As a result, I bought wines with pretty labels. If I liked the wine or if I didn’t like the wine, at least I knew what that particular wine bottle looked like for the next time. So…I also collected the labels. Crafts were popular so I intended at some time to take my collection and use them for something clever…a tray with the decoupaged labels, maybe.
At any rate…I still have a brown envelope, full of lovely labels from German wines.

Does anybody still decoupage? I guess today’s equivalent would be scrapbooking…!

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:43:38 +0000

A “fake but accurate” gun. Too funny, Ellie2.

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:04:04 +0000

Bookworm,

That’s a positively delightful way to pick a wine. I recently commissioned an artist to do a piece for a new label for my wines, it came out really well. Now I’m wondering about how much the skill of the artist is reflected in the wine as opposed to my skill as a vintner. LOL.

What has been most interesting to me about this campaign is the total disdain Obama and Clinton have for average voters. It’s as if they think the votes are there for them by some divine right.

By: Ellie2

Ellie2 — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:59:54 +0000

You are right, Book. But I don’t think it’s Lefties, per se, that are that dumb: it’s the creative/image types that are — they are only looking for a good “visual.” I was once asked to approve a print ad: My response ” it’s very nice, except that the image is reversed* and it’s made by our direct competitor.”

This mode of thinking goes hand in hand with the “fake but accurate” philosophy.

* like the gun cited above