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:
See it?
Look closer.
See what I see?
Of course you do--look:
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 PMPretty 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 PMAnd 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