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Title: Spathi Eluder sighted in random advertisement. Post by: Shiver on April 09, 2003, 05:48:10 am At this one particular computer I occasionally use, [link]http://gateway.yahoo.com/[/link] is set as the homepage for internet explorer. And every single time that page opens up, there's an ad at the top for DSL with a woman holding two cartoon space ships. The one she's holding in her left hand (our right) looks identical to a Spathi Eluder. Apparently someone in marketing likes Star Control.
Title: Re: Spathi Eluder sighted in random advertisement. Post by: RockasaurusRex2000 on April 09, 2003, 06:05:16 am That's pretty cool.
Title: Re: Spathi Eluder sighted in random advertisement. Post by: Death 999 on April 09, 2003, 06:42:29 am Not any more...
Title: Re: Spathi Eluder sighted in random advertisement. Post by: Shiver on April 09, 2003, 08:16:25 am Argh! It disappeared, just like that. I was holding off on bringing the ad up because I was worried this exact thing would happen. But at least one person besides me saw it.
Title: Re: Spathi Eluder sighted in random advertisement. Post by: Nakar on April 09, 2003, 09:12:02 am Did you get a picture of it? Post it! ;D
Title: Re: Spathi Eluder sighted in random advertisement. Post by: Shiver on April 09, 2003, 09:43:28 am Oh, how I tried. The picture shifted away to something else when I right-clicked on it to save it on my computer. And it wouldn't let me save anything at all, anyway. I wasn't much of a computer whiz, so I didn't know how else I would get it. Wait a sec, I'm going to check temporary internet files on my computer right now.
Title: Re: Spathi Eluder sighted in random advertisement. Post by: Shiver on April 09, 2003, 10:06:01 am [link]http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/sb/sbc2/combo_educ_super_033103.swf[/link]
Here's the culprit. Title: Re: Spathi Eluder sighted in random advertisement. Post by: AnonomouSpathi on April 09, 2003, 10:22:51 am How amusing. DSL or dial, and she seems to be holding both a rather clumsy looking rocketship, that I'm doubting is the epitome of speed in one hand, and a spathi eluder, which is the epitome of speed in the other.
Title: Re: Spathi Eluder sighted in random advertisement. Post by: Death 999 on April 09, 2003, 09:20:19 pm Now you need to have a competitor come in and hold up a Pkunk...
Title: Re: Spathi Eluder sighted in random advertisement. Post by: Chad on April 10, 2003, 01:15:48 am I found another version of the same ad that contains a guy this time...
http://www.classicgaming.com/starcontrol/funstuff/spathi_dsl_ad_2.jpg For this one, it looks even more like an Eluder. Title: Re: Spathi Eluder sighted in random advertisement. Post by: Symon Landor on June 27, 2003, 08:19:43 pm heh,i wonder if TFB will sue! big bucks. :D
Title: Re: Spathi Eluder sighted in random advertisement. Post by: Death 999 on June 27, 2003, 10:40:49 pm No -- don't sue. Leverage the market exposure! Strike a deal with the DSL company.
Title: Re: Spathi Eluder sighted in random advertisement. Post by: Sudo_Nym on July 03, 2003, 03:34:13 pm Yep, it's a Spathi.
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