OK, as promised. this is not as funny as it was supposed to be, or maybe I am losing my sense of humor. But here are what i found to be about the most tasteless a use of Christmas as I came across.
10. Find a real “old fashioned Christmas” at Pro Bass Shops
9. Silent Night used to generate guilt and promote ASPCA pet adoptions. (Marginal, but still offensive)
8. Local one, not even clever: Christmas songs used in commercials for Big Bob’s flooring, just repeating "Big Bob" over and over to the tune.
7. Any Beatles song sold by Michael Jackson and used in a Target ad. Not really Christmas but offensive enough to be included.
6. Alasak State Troopers using reworded Christmas songs in their campaign against drunken driving. Nothing wrong with the campaign, but to associate traditional songs with it, is, yes, tasteless. At least so far they haven’t used religious ones. Think of the kids growing up who when they hear certain songs thinking of drunks in jail. Is that Dickensian?
5. Camo Santa hats and stockings.
4. “Come they told me …” Movie “The Spirit” some kind of wierd superhero violence thriller. Using “The Little Drummer Boy” in its commercials.
OK these next three are the absolute worst and it is tough to decide which goes on top.
3. Check out the picture. It is the December edition of the Mexican version of Playboy. They deny it is meant to deptict the Virgin Mary. That's a pretty baseless defense when the headline reads: "Te adoramos, Maria" You can judge.
2. This is almost as profane as diapers. The clean coal association has animated lumps of coal dressed in Santa costumes singing about the attributes of clean coal to the tune of religious Christmas carols. Awful, even “Silent Night.”
1. “Silent Night” used to sell Pampers diapers.
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