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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 10:27 PM
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Ground Control to Major Tom
is now being used to advertise cars.

Seriously?

What was the car company thinking?

What were they thinking?
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 10:47 PM
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1. They were probably thinking: "Hey, this song is nearly forty years old
and it's still pretty cool! Let's use it!"
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 10:50 PM
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2. Kinda cars?
Tin cans? :shrug:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 10:54 PM
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3. Lincolns
Not just the "tin can" reference, but the fact that Major Tom is dead by the end of the song. :P
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 10:56 PM
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5. Well, we don't *know* that
He just loses contact with Ground Control. :shrug:



I always liked to think he floated faaaarrrrr above the moon for ever and ever.



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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 10:55 PM
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4. Can you hear me Major Tom?
Can you hear me Major Tom?
Can you...
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 11:04 PM
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6. Not only that, they use a crappy version
I really don't think they listen to the songs at all - wasn't it HP that used Pictures of You (The Cure) for a photo-printer commercial? And I thought ad people were supposed to be so hip...
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Throckmorton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 11:43 PM
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7. Maybe they want us to take our protein pills
and put our helmet on?
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