Commercials

After all the focus on commercials in the last couple of weeks I have arrived to this conclusion.  It all depends on the individual watching the commercial how persuasive it is.  If I am hungry and a O'Charley's, Chili's, or pizza, etc. commercial comes on - it motivates me to want to go there.  I will try some of the new menu items because they make it look so good, only to get aggravated at myself because it is never as good as it looks..  If I have just had dinner, then the food just isn't appealing.  I just went and bought cereal because of the commercial.  Commercials that use babies, people, and animals in unrealistic circumstances tend to be comical and become some of the most popular ones. For instance the Budweiser horses playing football, the Budweiser frogs, the Etrade baby, the mayhem commercials, and the woodchucks chucking wood,  have all been very popular.  We pay attention to the commercial that pertains to our interests.  There are some very "cheesy" commercials too.  The Tennessee Pride Sausage commercial was so ridiculous.  The setting was a science classroom and the teacher was interacting with a student.  Every time the teacher ask the student a question a person dressed as a crab would come over and smack the student on the head. After he had the sausage the student answered questions normal.  It's one of those commercials you tend to scratch your head and say, "what was that about?"  I wish there were more regulations on the number of commercials allowed during a break.  Sometimes there are too many commercials played back to back.  

Gorilla walks upright at the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent, England

The gorilla, Ambam, at the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent, England has become quite an attraction.  The 21 year old gorilla tips the scales at a mere 485 pounds. There are now several youtube videos of Ambam walking upright like a human.  Phil Ridges, the zoo keeper, stated several reasons for this.  Other family members have sometimes walked and stand in the same way. His father walked upright when he had handfuls of food to carry. Zoo officials think maybe Ambam would walk upright to get a height advantage to look over the wall when the keepers came to feed him.

There are numerous youtube videos of Ambam walking upright and dancing and wading in a pool.  Exactly what I imagined would happen came true.  A story like this would certainly bring out all the evolutionist.  They would jump on the chance to captilize on this story.  I opened the comments, and as expected, there they were; the evolutionist saying, "I told you so". 

Ambam isn't the first to walk like a human but does so more often.  There have been many that do but tend to do so very rarely. He is a member of a critically engangered species of gorilla.

This is just a story that went quickly viral on the internet and gave opportunities for people to have something else controversial and humerous to post comments about. It just doesn't take much to stir people up.  Walk on Ambam, you are a star for the day.