Long Lasting Gum Makes People Do Weird Stuff

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In a unique approach to illustrating just how long Cadbury Adams Stride gum lasts, the company has launched a website on which several people sitting at a desk chew gum while doing random acts of nothingness. There's also a contest which be can enter by submitting a 100 word statement of what they would do for a ridiculously long time and, if selected, a photograph of them doing it. No, you can't film yourself having herculean long sex nor can you be gross, obscene, violent or any of those other activities that irk lawywers but you can do just about anything else. Who knows if it will sell any gum but I wasted a good 20 minutes watching some of the videos.

Written by Steve Hall    Comments (6)     File: Good, Online, Promotions, Strange     Jun-22-06  
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I wonder if real people ever visit any of these sites or just ad guys like us?

Posted by: Tom on June 22, 2006 02:03 PM

check out wherethehellismatt.com

also from stride gum.

Posted by: tom on June 22, 2006 03:20 PM

BOOORR-RING!

Posted by: bigoxymoron on June 22, 2006 03:29 PM

I am not likely to ever be interested in going to a web site to watch anyone chew gum for any reason. Waste of time, effort and money!!!!

Posted by: Roy on June 22, 2006 04:59 PM

gum no thanks, but I got sucked into that Kraft Mac'n'cheese college site.

Posted by: PLD on June 23, 2006 03:02 PM

I agree...serious waster of time. If these kids were gonna be doing somethingfor a long time, at least it could have been interesting. I mean, sitting at a desk for a long time...what could be more boring?

Posted by: Ronnie on June 26, 2006 09:05 AM

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