Remember the Dell Dude?

Here's what Ben Curtis; the guy from those Dell computer ads from the late 90's and early 2000's is up to now (not much):

http://www.businessinsider.com/dell-dude-ben-curtis-today-2014-10

The idiot was busted for buying pot and Dell immediately fired him.

I thought he was really annoying in those commercials, and he's apparently just as annoying in real life.

 

We knew somebody that worked for Dell at that time and I got one of those T-shirts- Dude, you're getting a Dell.
I'm not sure the current generation would even get it, since history is what happened 10 minutes ago.

 

Forgot about him. A blast from the past from those early days of the technological takeover. Contrast him with the hipper Apple Mac dude. I like the Dell Dude better.

 

You say that like people are supposed to remember a commercial from when they were a kid.

 

I remember plenty of commercials from when I was a kid- both good and bad.

 

I remember some. Not most, though.

 

Kid's today! Always giving me blank stares when I wear my "I Can't Believe I Ate The Whole Thing" T-Shirt

Chad

 

Love how the article states "After the cops busted Curtis for attempting to buy drugs.." without expanding on what would now be legal in several states.

 

So what?

It wasn't and still isn't legal in the state he was busted in, which is why he was arrested...

 

He was less annoying than this guy...

 

Yeah, I guess I do. And, maybe because I'm older (you are too?), i don't even think of the Dell Dude as that long ago. I was thinking about the Red Rose commercials, the chimp jazz combo thing, that probably wouldn't play well today for obvious reasons- those commercials ran in the 60's and are still stuck in my brain.
Funny how some stuff is indelible. I thought the Dell dude commercials were pretty obnoxious at the time, but they are still in my memory bank.

 

Oh god... He made me want to punch him so bad.

I wonder if they still make Encyclopedias in book form?

 

They leave it to the reader to fill in the details.

 

Kind of interesting how much the public attitude seems to have changed over pot in the last, say, 5 years. I don't want to get political about the issue, but it certainly seems that it is more widely accepted. However, as you and others here probably know, most celebrity/entertainer/endorsement contracts contain "morals clauses' (I used to refer to them as Fatty Arbuckle clauses) which give the corporate sponsor an immediate 'out' if the spokesperson does something that brings them into 'moral disrepute,' including various crimes. I'm not making a moral judgment about pot or this actor, just what I hope is a neutral observation....

 

Portrait of a Modern-Day Hipster: Technology has civilized us.

 

Now they are known as the "Bill Cosby clause."

 

T-shirt?

 

Because somebody was upset that kids today wouldn't get his Dell catch-phrase t-shirt.

Chad

 

Wait...he attempted to buy some weed but didn't actually get any?

 

He was busted by an undercover cop who was trailing him and the dealer before the transaction could go down.

 

dude, you're getting a cell

 

Too bad he wasn't smarter with his money...

 

That's Stan Freberg's real-life kid, IIRC.

 

Hmmm...seems weird there's a law against attempting to buy weed. I mean damn...wtf?