The Lost Transcript: Chris Chelios Auditions for IPhone Commercial
Boy, have I got my hands on something special for the Monday morning post. As it turns out, Detroit Red Wings defender Chris Chelios auditioned to be in one of those IPhone commercials earlier in the year*. I've got my hands on a copy of the transcript from it (the video tape was too hard to come by) and present it to you without any further fluff.
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Date: September 3, 2007
Location: Detroit, MI
Event: IPhone Casting Call
So this one time, I was sitting on the bench during a game and we were losing real bad. It was like the New England Patriots decided to play hockey. We were just getting stomped out.
Anyway, Ozzy said he heard about this new phone that could basically do anything. He said we should all buy one, cause then we would start winning. I was like, "Ozzy, it's a phone. Be serious." He was dead serious, though. I could hear it in his voice.
"Grandpa, I'm dead serious," he said. "This phone is the real deal. I know we're down 11-0, but if we were to go out and buy a couple during intermission, I know we'd be winning in no time!"
Even Nicky Lidstrom chimed in; "Nej , han er absolut rätt."
I still wasn't convinced, but reluctantly accepted cause I'm a team player and all.
"Nicky, you know I can't understand Swedish," I said. "but I'll trust you on this one Ozzy, as long as you give me gas money to get to the store."
We went and got them during the intermission and as soon as we opened the boxes, you could tell these things were special. I scored 100 goals in the first 30 seconds of the third period, and Ozzy actually made a couple saves. Heck, even Nicky learned to speak English. It was amazing. I've never seen a phone do those things before. Best of all, we ended up winning the game 111,076 to -20. I've been a believer ever since, and none of us ever step on the ice without our IPhones.
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Impressive Linguistic Talents will be up later tonight...
* - Not true.
Nice touch with the Swedish! It's "Nej, han har absolut rätt", though.
ReplyDeleteSadly the Atlanta Thrashers have Sprint so the iPhone won't work for them.
ReplyDelete@Marcus: A møøse once bit my sister. Mynd you, møøse bites kan be pretty nastï
*slow clap building into loud cheers* Good show, old bean! 'Tis a thing of beauty! I wonder if the iPhones work in the Bell Centre Bell...
ReplyDelete@blackcapricorn: the people resposible for the subtitling have been sacked
@ marcus: hmmm I'm going to have to find a new Swedish translator. It all just looks like random letters to me. =\
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