Microsoft's New Vista Ads Don't Work; Other Companies' "We Suck" Ads Did [Huh?]
...GTE Telephone, Los Angeles, 1970
GTE telephone service in Los Angeles in the 1970s was apparently so shitty that the company ran an ad campaign that got written up in Time Magazine for its zaniness
The neat middle-aged executive peers out from the television screen. "Hello," he says, his face crinkling into a sheepish grin. "I'm from General...



