Ron Hitler Barrassi wrote:
> CL wrote:
>> Ed wrote:
> 
> Good collection. I like to imagine their is a gaigin at the ad agency 
> deliberately selecting this music as an inside joke.

As far as I know the examples given were done by the Little People 
entirely on their own.  There have been domestic ad campaigns that were 
assisted by gaijin copy writers and art directors, however.  I confess 
to having been part of several, including making one client understand 
that the creative process for their campaign required the gaijin staff 
to march across the road at 17:00 and drink nihonshu and eat tori 
karage, be-nasu, and the four or five other things whose names we could 
read back then, for seven straight hours, four times a week. 
Unfortunately, the ad campaign won several domestic and international 
awards and the host nationals started copying our creative style. 
Eventually, Management caught on and shut it down for everyone.  But, 
despite our best efforts, none of us ever managed to even make it on to 
the same page as the greatest 100% domestically produced disaster effort 
ever -- the "Snatch" ad campaign -- which never made it out of test 
marketing thanks to some loudmouthed foreigners who spoiled it for the 
rest of us.

CL