Adverts of the Super Bowl 2012

  I'm reliably informed that many in America who do not enjoy sports look forward to Super Bowl Sunday each year anyway.  The country celebrates the event with parties all over but it's the bits in between the plays of American Football which really pull the viewers in.  Super Bowl commercial breaks are notorious for containing great adverts and companies spend up to $3.5m for 30 seconds of space.

One of the Coke Polar Bears that watched the match along with the audience.

  Mashable has put together all 52 adverts that were broadcast during the Super Bowl this year and during my breaks at work I've been taking a look.  Here are some of my favourites.

Target Acquired: Luis Suarez and the Old Lady Terminator

  With all the furore over the 'racism row' slash 'Suarez/Evra saga' slash 'racist cheat' escapade that is going on with Luis Suarez over his alleged racist remarks, this GIF has emerged and taken a great slant on the whole situation.  I found it on the Who Ate All the Pies blog and it was created by RedCafe.

  Amazing.

Stephen Fry on Wagner

I haven't watched X-Factor whatsoever this year, which I feel very blessed for.  However, whether you watch it or not, it's hard to escape the joke character on it this year, Wagner.  An old, long haired Brazilian, Wagner covers songs in horrible ways but still gets praise and is voted into the next round weekly by the viewing public of Britain.  Now, even Stephen Fry has endorsed his performances and gives his opinions on Wagner in this video.

ps. This is a parody but it very funny.  Well done to Darren Dutton.

Drummers and Phillipians

Anyone who has been in or had anything to do with a band will know that usually someone is the butt of all jokes, and usually that someone is the drummer. They spend all day sat down in the corner hitting things, of course they are!

There was once this very pro-active drummer who decided that he had had enough of this and was going to do something about it. He woke up one morning and decided he'd change completely to give no ammo: he worked on his accent, his posture, dressed smartly and tried to be much more formal in general. But he realised this still wasn't quite enough. The one thing to top off his new attitude in life was to be well read, to begin reading the right newpapers. This was way too much of a jump so he practised his sentence to ask the man at the counter.

'Excuse me, can I have a copy of the Times and the Telegraph?'

'Excuse me, sir, please may I buy a copy of the Times and the Telegraph?'

'Good morning my fine sir, please may I purchase a copy of the Time and the Telegraph?'

That'd be it, so he set off out of his house to the shop and walked up to the counter, 'Good morning my fine sir, please may I purchase a copy of the Times and the Telegraph?'. 'You're a drummer aren't you?' the man replied. 'Yeah, how did you know?!' asked the drummer, disappointed. 'This is a chip shop'.

Great, especially if you've been in a band before. It was used in church this morning as an illustration (to go along with Phillipians 3). You can put your confidence in so many things to make you look and seem different to others but none of it will matter unless you know where you are in life.

Makes sense.