"Chevy wants to put some ads on MetaFilter, check out this mockup of what they had in mind"

Classy!

Jesus wept.

Some people on twitter sent me this Onion joke article about overlay car ads:
http://www.theonion.com/articles...

The irony is that the Onion slapped an overlay ad over the article that I had to close in order to read their humorous piece on overlay ads.

That's the actual comp they pitched with?

Plain white background.

It would have been magical if you'd done this, and then turned off metatalk for the duration of the campaign.

I'm assuming you turned it down because green is reserved for ask, right?

Slurm

Wow, tiling on the background, even. They really hit it out of the park.

really, really would love to fav some comments right now! priceless

needs a .wav file and animated Jesi

> then turned off metatalk for the duration of the campaign.

You know we did that over Thanksgiving right? So relaxing.

ho. lee. crap.

Fresh.

I believe it.