Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Hummer/McD's parody website
Posted Aug 16th 2006 10:38AM
by Sebastian Blanco
I love these signs created by the McDonald’s sign generator.
Vote for your favorite sign at http://www.ronaldmchummer.com/
Sibling blog Autoblog wrote a good post on the initial controversy over McDonald's decision to give away Hummer toys in their Happy Meals this month. In a lot of circles, the Hummer brand is a powder keg, and it didn't take long for a parody website to pop up that allows people to express their outrage at the combination of fast food, kids and Hummers. The website, brought to you by Environmental Working Group and Hybridcars.com, has five reasons McDonald's shouldn't offer the Hummer toys and, more interestingly, a McDonald's sign generator that allows people to input their own anti-Hummer/anti-McDonald's message. The most popular are showcased on the front page, along with the five reasons (which attack the Hummer's environmental effects and say that to fill up an H2 costs over $100, money that could be spent on healthier food).
Related:
1. The toy in my two-year old's happy meal today is not going to influence his car buying decisions 20 years from now.
2. If you bothered to talk to an actual child, you might have learned that the toy hummer doesn't burn any gas at all. It's just a toy ... car.
The Hummer toys are well made and have brought much joy to many lives.
In this day and age, we know enough about the green house effect to know better than to buy wasteful Hummers for simple normal raod travel. Hummers should be concidered more military like vehicles or rough country/terrain vehicles (that's the way I saw them as a youngster).
: 8:35 AM
