Public Service Announcement.

FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2010


Public Service Announcement.



Never could imagine a PSA in or as a rap. Now there is evidence it can be done. In the world of art, music and the internet that translates to must and all things are possible and should be expected.

While worrying about the status of our newest Tropical Storm; Bonnie (that bad girl headed into the gulf for the bull’s eye on the oil slick) I did a Google starting with Public Service. Google thought it knew what I was looking for before I did. Google then started offering some of its best guesses. Finally, Announcement - Who’d a thunk?

As soon as I got the p typed into the text search box things came fast and furious. I know that the first recommendation was the ‘P’ string that I search most often for: my grocery store Publix Supermarkets.

Hitting the ‘u’ next insured something that others might suspect could pop up as one of the tem additional recommendations could not rear its ugly head. It got me scratching mine though. Strictly in the spirit of research; with a deft swipe at the BACKSPACE key, I went back to the p and then typed in an o and than an r. Since I never made that particular search, the most searched for thing on the internet was never one of Lettermen’s Top Ten.

Google will not give up until conjecture is completely hopeless. It speculates and offers a different Top Ten with every keystroke until the only thing left is what is typed.

Getting back to the task at hand I qwertied ‘Pub’. It was a magic ten for ten on grocery store suppositions. Then, I entered the ‘L’ and for some unknown reason the odds dropped for the food market making it only nine out of ten. Adding the ‘i’ until I had completed ‘Publi’ did not change the odds… nine of the ten recommendations still for my grocery store. It kept pushing a paying advertiser off on me as who I most likely wanted to know about right up until I hit the ‘c’. The grocery was blown into oblivion.

Even hitting the space bar modified what I might need to know. Even adding the s brought no relief. Then the e brought the jackpot: Public Service Announcement. It took nine keystrokes total.

Seven more keystrokes before Mr. Google started recommending different aspects of PSA to investigate more thoroughly in the order they appeared:

“public service announcement About 5,010,000 results (0.65 seconds)”
“public service announcement About 254,000 results (0.57 seconds)”
“public service announcement lyrics About 676,000 results (0.80 seconds)”
“public service announcement ideas About 964,000 results (0.32 seconds)”
“public service announcement topics About 1,250,000 results (0.39 seconds)”
“public service announcement videos About 1,400,000 results (0.47 seconds)”
“public service announcement template About 140,000 results (0.42 seconds)”
“public service announcement samples About 102,000 results (0.50 seconds)”
“public service announcement format About 2,280,000 results (0.50 seconds)”
“public service announcement smoking About 171,000 results (0.41 seconds)”


I have no idea why I might have selected the lyrics option. I just did. Thinking back, I was looking for the standard lyric intro for Public Service Announcements. FAIL, oh mighty Obi-Wan! Instead there were sites that had the lyrics of a Rapper named JAY-Z. Others highlighted some pretty filthy lyrics by Eminem. I skipped Eminem ‘cause it sounds too much like something mom used to do to me when I was constipated. I went straight for Jay-Z.


“PSA Texting while Driving U.K. Ad [HD]” is 4:16 I don’t want to experience again. I did not find any PSA’s warning me to bend over and kiss my ass goodbye so the threat of a nuclear attack must have lessened.



“Speak to your kids about Cooties before Cooties speaks to them first.”
This Is a must see for every parent and child to prevent heartache.

The “Office public service announcements” yielded little except 6:27 of life that will never be recovered… never.

“David Lynch's Public Service Announcement” is 1:01 of New York City, littering and rats - none of which I am all that fond of. I recommend skipping it. There is a lot on YouTube that is taking up valuable bandwidth and yielding little in return.

There is a lot on the internet taking up valuable bandwidth and yielding little in return.

Touché.

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© 07.23.2010


POSTED BY SRPLUS AT 9:07 PM