Comments on: Got Milk? Dara (I mean Dairy) Torres does.

By: John

John — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:29:07 +0000

Milk haters drink this…

http://www.newser.com/story/65445/got-milk-kids-who-eat-more-dairy-live-longer.html

By: Mitch Armata

Mitch Armata — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:51:43 +0000

I also agree that ads are witty and are doing exactly what they are designed to do, garnish attention. I’m in the advertising industry and I can guarantee they want to arouse any sexual thought they can without coming right out and saying it. Sex sells, hence the responses in this forum.

I think Jamie’s point (Milk is not really that good for you and can even be bad) is the real problem with this ad. It’s playing with your health in the most devious way….Making you think you’re doing something so very healthy, when in fact Milk can actually attribute to long term health issues. This is false advertising in my view and should be seen for what it really is…false propaganda by the dairy farmers. I think all you need to do is ask yourself this. Am I a bovine, no then why drink bovine milk. Your probably human, so consume things that humans are designed to consume….Vegetables.

Health Wealth and Hapiness to everyone.

Mitch.

By: Lara

Lara — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:14:55 +0000

My first thought was “Dairy Torres. She likes milk. She drinks a lot of milk.”

Honestly if she were busty it would have been very inappropriate. Since she isn’t obviously female from the neck down, it never even entered my mind that this could be a mammary reference.

“Lap it up” even less so, because breast-feeding isn’t just “lapping it up”, it’s hard work for the baby. “Lap it up” made me think of a cat drinking milk from a bowl. I didn’t put it together with swimming laps.

By: greg

greg — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:54:19 +0000

Milk is awesome. Political correctness is not. Drink milk and shut the [I had to edit this word out...but it started with "f"] up.

By: jamieatlas

jamieatlas — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:51:25 +0000

The ‘got milk’ commercials, while initially smart, have dropped to a lower and lower standard over time. What annoys me most is that I am constantly answering questions on my blog about nutrition – namely milk and bones – it is not MILK that builds stronger bones, but CALCIUM (theoretically depending on what research you look at) that builds bones. Milk can often cause more trouble than good depending on how your body reacts to it. We are the only animal that continues to drink milk past infancy. Want calcium? Try eating green vegetables. They are a much higher source of calcium than any glass of milk (and have a large range of other benefits as well!) Sorry for the rant – these milk ads just get me fired up!

Jamie Atlas of Fitness Insights

By: elle

elle — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:10:59 +0000

Hello. Given that the ‘Got Milk’ ads are plays on post-oral sex to begin with, I, unfortunately, think of a way more pornographic reference to ‘lap it up.’ Eww.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:07:40 +0000

I took the add exactly as Ray did. Swimming a Lap and Lapping up some milk.. What a waste of commentary to complain of something that seems to be a figment of your imagination.

By: Cory

Cory — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:57:37 +0000

Get a life. No one was twisting her arm to shoot the ad and approve the copy. She obviously did it on her own and was fine with the copy. Man, everyone is so politically correct now. Can no one have any fun any more or have a clever play on words without someone being offended and crying.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:06:28 +0000

I read “Dairy” Torres “Got Milk” ad that says “Lap it up” as a play on “swimming laps” and nothing else. I’d send the “Got Milk” folks your suggestion of “Milky Phelps/Lap it up” and they might view it as the same type of corny wit. They went to “Liquid Gold” with him. Although, they may not jump at the Phelps endorsement if it came around now. I had my wife read it and her first blink was a kitty cat “lapping it up”. My two daughters (both collegiate athletes) were split on the same two comparisons.