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What's the deal with this Holiday Inn commercial? It's starts with a little girl in a pool yelling : Murkle, Urkle or whatever. Then a bunch of people on vacation just answer: Polo, Bolo, or whatever. Then you have the slogan: «Relax, it's a Holiday Inn».
I'm confused. My English is not that bad, but I can't make out what they say or what it means. They even translated this commercial in French, but they only translated the slogan, the rest is the same incomprehensible audio track. Are we supposed to understand that if we stay at a Holiday Inn, we'll be so relaxed that we wont feel compelled to yell non-sequiturs?
So just so I stop cringing my teeth when I see it again, what's the meaning, significance or point of this commercial?
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Sounds like they're playing Marco polo... the game where one person closes their eyes and looks for the others by voice...
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I like the Urban Dictionaries def of Marco Polo
http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...erm=marco+polo
1. Marco Polo
Excuse for touching breasts in a pool.
Here however is a better one
2. Marco Polo
A game usually played in swimming pools, one person is it and they try to tag other people, they can only say "Marco" or "fish out of water" (when the other people are out of the pool, if they get caught they are it), and when they say "marco" the other people that are not it have to say 'polo'. Really fun.
I was playing Marco Polo in someone's weird pool and i accidentally rammed my hand into one of those step things on the sides.
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I get it. Thanks, It was driving me crazy.
It's not a game played by little French Canadians so I had no reference. Come to think of it there was a joke about this game in the last Family Guy (where Steevie was playing with Helen Keller).
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Originally Posted by dlefebvre
I get it. Thanks, It was driving me crazy.
It's not a game played by little French Canadians so I had no reference. Come to think of it there was a joke about this game in the last Family Guy (where Steevie was playing with Helen Keller).
Well, apparently someone thought it was a big enough reference to put it into a commercial.
Mike
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This is a sign..from the omnipotent lord of media.
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What's weird is, I heard some people playing this game just yesterday... and now this thread....
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One should never stop striving for clarity of thought and precision of expression.
I would prefer my humanity sullied with the tarnish of science rather than the gloss of religion.
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I haven't seen that commercial.
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