Disturbing commercial #20050920a.
James Kibo Parry
Like all other commercials for all other Internet service providers,
it consists of employees telling you how hard they're working to keep
you from getting bad ol' viruses in your mailbox. But in this one,
the philosophies they're expounding are of the form "I believe in
eliminating viruses..."
...meanwhile, in the background, elves, ogres, wizards, and fairies
are cavorting around the EarthLink office.
That's right, EarthLink wants you to know their office is full of fairies.
More to the point, for some reason, the commercial wants us to understand
that anyone who believes EarthLink's staff could ever actually keep
viruses out of your E-mail must also believe in fairies.
-- K.
I'm not sure about the precise genus and species
of the various magyckal creatures gamboling in the
background, but I suspect that EarthLink employs
a few trolls.