memo to GEICO and NIKE: your ads suck!

Ok, ha ha, I got it the first time. You know, that commercial, the one about GEICO and "so easy a caveman can do it" and oh LOL, there are CAVEMEN who are pissed. Funny for about a moment the first time, but GEICO's ads, on constantly it seems, now have gone the way of esurance.com and created a whole series of ads that hardly even tell you anything about GEICO, insurance, or like, any relevant information.

Then, someone got the bright idea of making a full blown tv series, called....Cavemen! Oh please, God, no. Strangely, at least to ABC, the critics have not been giving this series much of a chance of

a) being funny or

b) making it past the first wave oc cancellations.

Gee, I can't imagine why...

Oh, and now there's this new ad for the NIKE shoes that can interface with an iPod to help you exercise better. Great product, but somehow the idiot marketers at NIKE invented a way to make a great product look incredibly stupid. It starts out with some rock band "rocking out" and gets interrupted by a polite sounding young athletic woman who starts reciting all sorts of stats.

Then, suddenly we're whisked away to Our World where an erudite salesclerk is explaining the gadget to a really stupid looking guy who is "rocking out" with his zany iPod, who suddenly turns and with

a) the stupidest voice possible and

b) the most idiotic look on his face this Method thespian could conjure and bellows "HOW DOES IT KNOW THAT???"

Duhhhhhh.

What a stupid ad, and one that's on INCESSANTLY. Frankly, I'm surprised Apple and their Fearless Leader, Steve Jobs didn't call up NIKE and kick their ass. They're usually pretty protective of their image....