June 20, 2007

I have a suspicion.

Geico has been running ads on the front page of Yahoo! with their too-clever-by-half English yob gecko. I know you've all seen and heard the ads, but I believe I have stumbled upon something that points to a giant conspiracy, the exposure of which is bound to shake the insurance industry to its very roots!

I belive the Geico gecko is not really English.

[insert thundering dramatic minor organ chord]

Just look at this photo of him, shilling his goods:

geico ad.jpg

See it?

Look closer.

See what I see?

Of course you do--look:

geico ad enlarged.jpg

There's not one single English tea drinker in all of England who would be caught dead a) making tea with a tea bag in a cup, and b) LEAVING THE TEA BAG IN THE CUP!

It's obviously just some actor, and I bet if the truth were told, he's not even a real gecko.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 20, 2007 02:46 PM
Comments

Pretty good catch there, old chap! Though I do believe the folks I've known did use tea bags for their cuppa. I agree though, the bag would come out before the quaffing started. It interferes with the dousing and stirring of the sugar, don't ya know?

Posted by: Nate at June 20, 2007 04:33 PM

And another thing--that would have to be an AWFULLY tiny teabag--geckos are only a few inches long, and so the cup is proportionately small, and the teabag even smaller. Something's rotten, and this nefarious plan must be rooted out!

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at June 20, 2007 04:44 PM