Comments on: Trouble ahead.

By: Miranda Vink

Miranda Vink — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:43:33 +0000

Other funny commercials on the Centraal Beheer site are cipier (guard), balletje (ball), getuige (witness), museum en overval (stick-up).

By: whimsy

whimsy — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:10:17 +0000

It IS for an insurance company. A Dutch one in fact, now called "Centraal Beheer Achmea". They started a campaign in 1986 based on visual jokes like these, with great succes. Their tagline "even Apeldoorn bellen" is now used as a wisecrack for similar situations, and as captions (Googling "even Apeldoorn bellen" yields several pictures of unusuals mishaps).

This website hosts many of their TV-commercials: http://www.centraalbeheer.nl/cbi/cb/corporate/fun/commercials.jsp Much of this material is properly funny stuff, and the one called "Egel" (Hedgehog) has actually won an international award.

By: J.

J. — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:56:06 +0000

Don't believe it Ted - Yak Boy is just kidding - the truth is that Central Beheer has some thousand photographers on the payroll, who are strolling around all days making bazillions of photos and a commission ahead of 100 subcommisions which are of course on top of another 100 subsubcommsions are deciding which photo to take for the 1 ad a year . That's the whole truth as I have heard this from somebody who knows somebody who's mother is the hairdresser of a woman who's grandson is ... ahh I can't get it all together - but trust me, I know it for sure! PS: OK - rumors are going that google have bought the insurance photo archive and and will go publishing it under some strange name like streetview... But that's to strange as who really would be interested in something like street views...

By: ted

ted — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:26:37 +0000

So this advertisement may NOT be a real photo?

Wow, what a concept.

By: Yak Boy

Yak Boy — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:29:33 +0000

It looks to me as though they have photographed the stationary vehicles, and then used photoshop to blur the background to give the illusion of movement.

By: liz

liz — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:32:53 +0000

I once ended up behind a horse trailer that was leaking very liquid horse manure -- just as we were both getting on the freeway. As he accelerated, the manure hit the ground and then sprayed all over my car. As soon as I could, I pulled off to a gas station and ran to grab a hose that was laying on the ground. The mechanic warned me it was a high-pressure hose and all I could say was, "Good!"