{"id":208,"date":"2011-10-11T15:25:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T19:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=208"},"modified":"2011-10-11T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T19:27:04","slug":"okay-this-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Okay, This Is Important"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the deal with corporate mascot accents?\u00a0 The Geiko Gecko thing was weird, when he went from a rather posh British accent (or maybe a sort of “Mid-Atlantic” accent at the very beginning when Kelsey Grammer voiced it) to sounding like he was plotting a heist in a Guy Ritchie movie.\u00a0 I guess that is a warmer, more easy to relate to accent, but it was kind of jarring when the little bugger suddenly switched gears.\u00a0 That was nothing compared to the Travelocity roaming gnome, though.\u00a0 I get the rationale for using a garden gnome because of the whole “steal a garden gnome and send the owner pictures of it from all over the place” thing, but it was always a bit odd to have it speaking in what sounded like a parody of a plummy upper-class twit British accent.\u00a0 The gnome in question is clearly one of the Huygen\/Poortvliet Scandinavian variety, so if it is speaking with a stereotypical accent it should being saying “yumpin’ yimmeny” and so on.<\/p>\n

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Travelocity Gnome - See What I Mean?<\/p><\/div>\n

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But now, it too has gone to a Cockney accent, but in keeping with its original lack of subtly it has veered off into over the top music-hall style.\u00a0 He doesn’t ever say “Gor blimey!” in the last commercial, but I’m sure it is only a matter of time.\u00a0 I’m really hoping someone can explain all this to me.\u00a0 The only potential upside that I can see is the possibility of these spokescreatures using rhyming slang at some point.\u00a0 It would hardly make the commercials more incomprehensible, and it would make them more entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the deal with corporate mascot accents?\u00a0 The Geiko Gecko thing was weird, when he went from a rather posh British accent (or maybe a sort of “Mid-Atlantic” accent at the very beginning when Kelsey Grammer voiced it) to sounding like he was plotting a heist in a Guy Ritchie movie.\u00a0 I guess that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}