“Billy has an Oreo Cakester!” The child that has befallen upon Billy’s treasure, whispers to the kid next to him about it. Then that kid tells the kid next to her. Each kid is passing t down this amazing realization until it reaches the last kid and he says “Bobby has a chest hair?” - OREO
As I sat and watched this commercial for probably the 3rd time, the light bulb came on. While Oreo was trying to promote their new Oreo Cakester, they never realized they were promoting something else: GOSSIP. I’m not sure why I didn’t think of it at first. Maybe my biggest focus was on that yummy oreo cakester. It could have been those cute kids portraying to be eating their lunch when a camp mate’s dessert became the talk of the town.
Even though these children showed gossip in a comical way, in reality we do the same thing but it only satisfies our gossiping lips instead of our stomachs. For many years, we have all volunteered in gossiping in some way. It has started since we were back in childhood. From the “Johnny has cooties pass it down” to “I heard Samantha slept with Darren.
THE BEGGINER WHO KNOWS ALL.- This is a person that likes to snoop around and find out the latest scoop on what’s going on in the world, with celebrities, or their peers. If you want the low down on somebody, then search for them.Let’s say Susan said she saw Lizzie hanging out with Bobby in the library. She tells Sarah “Hey girl. Guess who I saw hanging out in the library? Lizzie and Bobby!”
THE SPREADER - Beware! This person’s mouth flows out gossip that they have heard non stop! Before you know it, the whole school will now have the latest gossip in minutes. Too bad you can’t stop their mouth with a dam. They would break through that too! Now Sarah stops by her boyfriend’s locker and says “Guess what Chris? Lizzie and Bobby were in the library! I know they had to have been making out!”
THE LISTENER – Most people tend to fall into this category. A friend tells you what happened and you don’t continue the chain of gossip. You just accidentally mentioned it to one of what you thought was your close friend and they are really a back stabber. Chris tells you what happened. “Lizzie and Bobby were making out at school.” Wow that blows you away. But do you plan to tell the whole world? No because you know that gossip is not always true. You mention what you heard to Claudia because she would not believe that stuff and go tell anyways right? Wrong!
THE BACKSTABBER - This is the person that you trust to not go gossip. They are a good friend that you are very close to. Well you thought you were close to. So lets say this close friend just happens to tell Lizzie! Oh great! Of all people. She will mention she either heard it from you or heard it from someone else
THE GOSSIP SILENCER– About 9 times out of 10, this is the person that is being gossiped about. They will finally confront everyone and tell them what really went down. So Lizzie tells your friend that she and Bobby were in the library but she was actually helping him with his math. The math teacher was also present, she just walked off to go to the bathroom and come back.
Now that the truth is told, there is no guarantee that everyone will finally find out about it. Lies can last a long time for entertainment, but the truth only gets its 15 minutes of fame. Many people have heard numerous things about events or just people from the media, friends, internet and more. We can only assume that the facts are true, but the real person that holds that truth is the one being accused of the truth. So the next time you or a friend goes off an assumption of what you heard but you didn’t see or even ask the person that is actually going through it, consider it to be gossip.
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you know in my music class in elementary we played a game like this called "telephone" one child would pick a term or phrase and whisper it to the next child, and then rinse repeat, until it has gone all around the classroom and gets back to the initial child. most times it was something far different than the original saying. "musical chairs" could turn in to pumpernickel stares.
Yours truly,
.demosthenes
Yeah we did that experiment in high school with my speech class. THanks for the comment.
oreo cakesters not actually tasting very good aside...
I don't think the commercial was actually promoting gossip. As you said, the message at the end of a long stream of gossip tends to be completely different than the original comment(s). The commercial is, as .demo said, like a game of telephone.
The commercial seems to promote the idea that gossip is flawed.
I do like your categories of gossipers though. :-)
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No it didn't prompt gossip, but it reminded me of how gossip starts. Are the oreo cakesters really nasty? Well they make them look good on tv.
Um, with a little help from your blog, lovenenvy, the commercial has promoted gossip about Oreo cakesters!
"I heard those were nasty!"
"Ooh, you don't even know half of it! They also last forever AND I heard they have gelatin derived form baby sea turtles in them, which are illegal to hunt, but the Oreo company pays of the Cambodian government..."
"Dude, I can't wait to tell my friends!"
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Sea Turtles, huh?
They always had more of a 'clubbed baby seal' taste to me....
My friend told me that his friend's sister's boyfriend's dad knew this guy who sold a car to someone who worked in research and development at Oreo, and HE said baby sea turtles, so I think my version of the story is clearly the more accurate report! ;)
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Well, I'll have you know that, as a former youth pastor, I used to work for the guy who MADE sea turtles!
HA!
*does a little dance*
Besides, truth be known, neither baby sea turtle nor clubbed baby seal have more of an oreoistic taste than penguin.
How do you eat YOUR penguin? Crunchy outsides or creamy middle first? Or do you dunk them in milk?
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I'd tell you, but the process by which I eat penguin is far more illegal than eating penguin itself.
Thats hilarious lancekates !
'clubbed baby seal' .
rofl
Are you serious? Thanks for telling me! Now I don't even want to eat the cookies. And those are good too. Thanks for your insight and nutritional info.
I was totally kidding! That was an example of how out of control rumors get! Read on to the part where lancekates and I discuss the penguin content of the cookies, and you'll see the joke more clearly.
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We were joking? I was serious....
*puts on a tin foil hat*
Is the tin foil hat to keep the radio signals out of your brain?
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As you may be one of 'them' I am unable to share that information.
Please note, when constructing a tin foil hat, make sure the shiny part is out.
Oh! Good one. It relates to my blog. Well a little bit. Good one though to you both ediblewoman and lancekates! :?!)
they taste like regret.
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May I use that one?
My personal favorite line is the one that falls out of my mouth every time I drink too much:
"This tastes like a hangover." One of my best friends hates that line, because I'm usually right.
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you may absolutely use that one.
I also like to say things taste like death or despair every so often. :-)
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I think they taste ok, but not as good as they make it out to be. I thought at that when I watched the commerical as well. We used to play that telephone game in school. It is sad how things get so twisted. I don't gossip. I used to when I was younger just to my really close friends. Now I find it childish. Many people still do it though. I think people get bored and don't have anything else better to do...so they try and ruin people's lives.
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Gossip i am pretty sure we have all gone threw this...
i know I have many many times but there are 2 that come straight to mind..
when i was in the 7th grade everyone was going around saying that i was a lesbian with my best friend. i have nothing against lesbians but i am not and i got very upset..
second when i was in 10th grade i was at a party some crap happened and i got hit in the head with a bottle. a glass one that didnt bust but did cause 8 or 9 stitches in my head right below my hair line.. wow did the rumor mill go crazy when i returned to school..
some stupid girls were even tryin to take a picture apparently it was highly entertaning..
so i know that gossip isnt good at alll but im not even going to try to lie i have been guilty of "gossiping" too but pretty much everything i heard then passsed (to only my very close friends) was in fact actually true.
ummm the bobby has a chest hair thing reminds me of this game..
im sure everyone has played it but one person says something then u must keep passing it around the room and u can only repeat what you heard once but at the end it is something totally different.
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I think everyone has been guilty of gossiping. Its just that popular but when you grow up from gossipping so much, you realize at times , it was kind of dumb. Thanks for your good insight on gossip. You got my point too.
towards the end of highshcool, there were a lot of rumors going around that i was a questionable character. it was said that i had done some very bad things, that i wasn't a nice guy, that i was taking advantage of a lot of my friends, part of the reasoning behind this, is i was a homebody most of the time, i would go out and party occasionally, prior to the bonfires, that is. and i am a nice guy, not a fighter, a lover rather. but most people saw me at bad times and figured i was like that always.
i had been throwing a lot of bonfire parties, because the weather was nice and i lived near a beach. one night i happened to get blackout drunk, (yay, alcoholism. stupid pastime, really) and while i was walking home, i fell face first onto a rock.
i got a bloody black eye. but the story goes that there was guy there; a big guy, he must have been in college or something; who was being an ass to everyone, i told him to get the hell away from my fire and leave everyone alone, i turned my back onto him, and he cold clocked me in the back of the head, then i fell down onto the rock, but i came back up swinging. luckily my friend was there to stop me from hurting him too seriously.
my friend, jeremy, agreed to back me up on the story, because i told him why i would want to make up such a lie.
after that everyone who was talking the smack, said that i was crazy and to not mess with me. so problem fixed. no fights. a tad bit of counterintelligence and misinformation, but the conflict was resolved, without any actual violence, and a lot of my good friends were getting ready to actually fight some people. i am glad that they didn't on my behalf. violence is never the answer, make-believe violence can be sometimes, depending on the situation.
gossip can be the lesser evil, if you ask me.
Yours truly,
.demosthenes