BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked

Subject: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: GUEST,Percy
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 08:36 AM

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But they agreed to the Tobasco ad, I am told.

Percy

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The family of late singer Johnny Cash has blocked an attempt by advertisers to use his hit song Ring of Fire to promote haemorrhoid-relief products.

The idea had been backed by Merle Kilgore, who co-wrote the song with Cash's wife, June Carter Cash.

Cash's daughter Rosanne said the family "would never allow the song to be demeaned like that". Cash and his wife died in 2003.

Kilgore said he had not intended to upset the family.

He said at first he thought the idea was funny, and he had often joked about haemorrhoids onstage whenever he would introduce Ring of Fire.

But Rosanne Cash told the Nashville-based Tennessean newspaper he had not consulted the family.

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She said: "The song is about the transformative power of love and that's what it has always meant to me and that's what it will always mean to the Cash children."

TV producer Sula Miller, of Big Grin Productions in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said she had thought of the idea while suffering from the condition.

Johnny Cash, a legend of US country music, died in September aged 71 after complications from diabetes which resulted in respiratory failure.

His rebellious songs and outlaw image have influenced generations of rock artists, from Bob Dylan to U2.

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 08:43 AM

Well - Haemorrhoids can leave you rather blocked too !

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: freda underhill
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 09:09 AM

sounds like a conspirarsy theory..

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 09:23 AM

Where can I contribute to Hemorrhoid Relief?

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 09:23 AM

I suspect both Johnny and June would get a kick out it being used - and luagh all the way to the bank if they were alive...

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: Kim C
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 09:58 AM

I think maybe Ring of Fire is just a little TOO specific for a hemorrhoid ad.............

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 10:03 AM

Please make note of the fact that this ludicrous idea for the misuse of a song was contemplated for the purpose of creating a television advertisement. If Mr. Kilgore were to undergo a six-week program of intense tubal detoxification he would probably realise what a stupid idea it is. Idiocy, thy name is "Television"!

Blow up your TV
Throw away your paper
Move to the country
And build you a home...

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: Pseudolus
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 10:41 AM

Hell, I thought it was funny!!!!!!

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: HuwG
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 11:29 AM

I recall "Ring of Fire" being used in an advert for Levi 501 jeans, some fifteen years ago (or more).

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 02:37 PM

"But they agreed to the Tobasco ad, I am told."

I am told that Tabasco can BE an interesting treatment for hemorrhoids.

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: michaelr
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 07:19 PM

Jeez, it took hose ad agency geniuses this long?

We used to joke about using the song in this way, oh, a good 20 years ago!

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 08:22 PM

It is funny, but it's basically cheap toilet humor. I just found the idea of a reputable company seriously considering basing an advertising campaign on the idea a bit much. But, hey, what do I know. I haven't watched television for ten years. Toilet humor ads may be all over the place now and I wouldn't know it.

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: GUEST,Bobert in disguise
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 09:01 PM

Sorry, I thought this was another Bush thread...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 09:07 PM

no, but it's close mate...

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 08:04 AM

cheap toilet humor

Now what woudl be an example of expensive toilet humnour?

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 08:05 AM

Perhaps the right word would be "costive" rather than "expensive".

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: Bobjack
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 08:10 AM

Haemorrhoid cure no52 - smear piles liberally with marmite, allow to dry, then whack them back up where they belong with a tenor banjo, then burn banjo. Gripped and sorted!

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: GUEST,Lyle
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 02:13 PM

Several country singers over the last 20+ years have introduced the song in concerts along the lines:

"...he got his Ben Gay mixed up with Preperation H and wrote Ring Of Fire."

I've never heard any negative publicity from that.

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: Jim McLean
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 04:25 PM

I was in hospital in London recently, and heard an old Londener sounding off about Scots. 'They're just like piles',he said. 'When the come down and go back up they're OK, but when they come down and stay down, they're a pain in the arse'!

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: Gareth
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 04:52 PM

Or it could be an advert for a very good curry !

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: Peace
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 04:54 PM

We all know that Hadrian had the wall built to keep the people to the south out of Scotland.

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: Big John
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 09:24 PM

And then there was the Kerryman (thats a man who lives in Killarney, not the presidential candidate) who continually scratched at his arm.
He had haemorrhoids but he didn't know his arse from his elbow.

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: Big John
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 09:26 PM

On second thoughts maybe it was the preidential candidate

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 09:32 PM

That's an idea - take all the Kerryman jokes, and the Newfie jokes, and the Thicko Paddy jokes, and the Dumb Pollack jokes - and transpose them into the key of Bush...

Subject: RE: BS: Haemorrhoid Relief Ad blocked
From: GUEST,M'Grath of Altcar
Date: 20 Feb 04 - 02:26 PM

Brian Dewhurst / Preston wrote a parody of Ring of Fire years ago.

It concerned curries

       "I sure bet you wish you'd heeded my warning
       When you pebble dash the bog next morning."