TheSamba.com :: View topic - Split bus as prop in marketing and advertising

Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:45 am

Craig wrote:
The frequency of buses in advertising/merchandizing has increased as the prices increase. That is not a major driver of value, but if it has an effect on desirability it is positive.
I imagine that using the bus or an image of it in marketing is contrived to reach the public at a deeper level; like puppies:

Perfect pairing! The Dalmatian, known for its hearing problems and a tin can panel.

Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:58 am

Here’s one parked in a SoCal mall used to sell purses. The pink is a wrap over stock blue paint.

Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:25 pm

It's pretty obvious what is happening here. The man of the "Family" is taking phone pics.

He is no longer with the girl in these photos as he soon tired of her antics. She is not the mother of his children. His first wife has ditched him for being abusive and an unrealistic perfectionist.

The first collage and all the photos he posted on his social medium to justify her inadequacies. He doesn't like things out of order nor sand inside his bus or play before work nor her selfishness.

She drags his longboard off the rack scraping glops of melting wax puddling on the roof. He's asked her time and time again not to mess with his guitar or have the kids pound on it and detune it much less quit putting the case back on the roof empty not laying flat. On the way to the beach after he had let her drive his precious steed she disobeyed him and let the kids undo their seatbelts to cozy up to her for sleepy drive time. The b&w shot is when he first met her, she was thinner, and things seemed like they'd work out as the kids really took to her although she had already criticized him for using slotted beauty rings. Soon after though he started picking her apart. "Lose some weight", "wear more surfer girl dresses", "stop saying 'so' and 'sure' so much for example.

The next photo she thought she'd show him some respect while he was off to the bathroom and lean the boards up but use the shortboard cover to protect the tail of the longboard. It backfired and made the longboard fall onto the shortboard scraping the bus and gutter with the longboard hitting her eye and the shorboard hitting the little girl's eye. For the photo shoot he set them back up just to prove to everyone what a doofus she is. She could clearly not be the mother in these pics as feeding would have been impossible with BBs-on-a-breadboard and falsies to bring her up flat. Her birthcanal would have produced Whammo X-20 Monorails and those children are not deformed.

He asked her to help spread out the tent to get it ready to erect and to keep other campers from mooching in on their turf but instead she kept playing KumBaYah over and over again while a neighbor car backed onto the canvas. It was more important to her to wear her high-heels than do the one simple thing he had asked. He'd bought her the high heels for later. He was already at his last straw as she drug the heavy longboard down to the water scrubbing the rail all the way to the foam instead of waiting for him so he told her they were leaving and started packing it in. No matter how many times he's reprimanded her for some reason she has a thing about taking the groceries and setting them down where ants can get to them.

The dad was so blinded with anger he stormed off with the family to drive home in the dark and forgot the baby that tried to crawl after them into the night. After realizing the missing child they went back to look with the spotlight and she ran the battery dead using the torch. He made her walk until she found him. Luckily two hitch-hiking girls had found him, stayed all night, and extracted the rattlesnake he was playing with.

Lastly the Good Samaritan Girls helped pop-start the dead battery and she tried to storm off with the bus and kids but he stood in the way and forced her to either run him over or stop. Once again he showed in a photo how she didn't care about the safety of his kids as that would be the last view they'd see before flying through the windshield without restraints.

Epilog: After realizing what a control freak he was and how together she really was she came on TheSamba under a pseudonym and found a cherry Wolfsburg Standard that she built for going for it with beefed suspension and a killer stroker that she drives as high as she can into Tibet where she treks into rare air gathering rubys from clandestine inhabitants and smuggles them back into her country to sell to the highest bidder. She's known as the Beanpole-of-the-Himalayas to locals and they all love her.

Clara wrote: ...shapemedia...demographic-profile-2
Their readership is 91% female.

Those 91% female are cheering for the toothpick girl for holding her own against the egomaniac husbandude. They are even coming to TheSamba to buy buses in solidarity.
Clara wrote: ...by comparison, thesamba's demographic is 96% male
That number should start rising soon. Some woman should count as multiple percentiles against that male skew as they are far more female than most men are man.

Clara wrote: Yes many family photos were taken by the dad...
How is he? Is he still alive?

Fri Jun 15, 2018 4:34 am

BarryL,

That is quite the riff you have going ...

Fri Jun 15, 2018 4:48 am

Loved that read. Can’t wait for the next Chapter

Definitely GuFundmeable

:D

Fri Jun 15, 2018 4:50 am

Oh.... my....

Barry, that is is hysterical! I'm still laughing. I'm not sure what your "calling" is, but if it isn't writing, then you've missed it! Thanks for the laughs!

Bill

Fri Jun 15, 2018 6:12 am

Restoring a VW Bus: $20,000
A tank of gas to get you to work for the week: $30
Reading posts like this on TheSamba: PRICELESS!

Fri Jun 15, 2018 7:57 am

BarryL wrote:
Clara wrote: Yes many family photos were taken by the dad...
How is he? Is he still alive?

Ya, he's fine. Just drove his white Thing to Prado for the weekend and back.

Here is a family pic from back in the day.

Fri Jun 15, 2018 10:54 am

Clara wrote: BarryL wrote:
Clara wrote: Yes many family photos were taken by the dad... How is he? Is he still alive? Ya, he's fine. Just drove his white Thing to Prado for the weekend and back.
I think that Barry is speaking of the non-seen dad in the ad, not Sam.

Fri Jun 15, 2018 9:24 pm

BarryL wrote: It's pretty obvious what is happening here. The man of the "Family" is taking phone pics.

Some of the best stuff I have read in quite awhile. Well done BarryL!

Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:13 am

Yes yes BarryL you rock with a ton of humor 8)
A real must read.

Sat Jun 16, 2018 7:11 am

Thanks for the clarification Barry, now I hate that chic!

Sat Jun 16, 2018 7:21 am

Beaches, blondes, buses. (Barry?)

Sat Jun 16, 2018 12:22 pm

Thanks for bringing humor/story telling, brought to a complete circle.
Cheers Thomas

Sat Jun 23, 2018 5:38 pm

From Family Circle, July 2018. The same pic was used on the Table of Contents page; accompanies blurb about a tulip festival.

Sat Jun 23, 2018 5:47 pm

Nice Bus, whoever owns it.
The black popout frames are a bit strange though

Sat Jun 23, 2018 7:43 pm

EverettB wrote: Nice Bus, whoever owns it.
The surfing Dutchman.

Sun Jun 24, 2018 3:43 am

Craig wrote: EverettB wrote: Nice Bus, whoever owns it.
The surfing Dutchman.

Karel don’t surf, he’s from NJ

Sun Jun 24, 2018 4:12 am

Craig wrote: Beaches, blondes, buses. (Barry?)

Susan is laughing at Rodney as she has informed him his van Bus isnt slammed, he is just an overweight wanker....

Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:22 am

Saw this soda brand yesterday.

Here is an album using a scale bus that popped up.