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$38M HVAC Rebrand: The "Call Dad" Brand Story | Wizard of Ads for Essential Services Case Study
Most home service companies compete on price, empty guarantees, and education. Call Dad chose feeling, value, and speed.
How did a standard HVAC business transform into one of the most recognizable and emotionally connected essential home service brands in the country? What started as frustration with pushy contractors became a bold idea: build a company that feels like calling your dad. Reliable, honest, and always on the way.
Through deep brand uncovery, unconventional storytelling, and disc
Show HN: Video Poker Trainer
I've created a trainer for video poker based on the 99.54% RTP strategy as outlined in "The Doctrine of Chances" by Steward N. Ethier (p 554 table 17.5). Apparently the maximum RTP for video poker wasn't proven until 2010, which is astonishing to me given the game has been in the wild since 1979. Note this is a strategy for classic 9/6 Jacks or Better (Full Pay) - it does not apply to popular variants which followed.A full "cycle" in video poker from the house
LED zepplin
LED zepplin
Where do magical girls work?
Department of Transformation
<p>Where do magical girls work?</p><p>Department of Transformation</p>
i made 9 different students face palm today. It was a good day. My decendants will tell stories of the cringe.
<p>i made 9 different students face palm today. It was a good day. My decendants will tell stories of the cringe.</p>
I'm your side chick? I guess I did hatch from an EGG afterall! Ba dum tssss
<p>I’m your side chick? I guess I did hatch from an EGG afterall! Ba dum tssss </p>
I went to see one of those shadow theatres earlier.
Really freaked me out - one of them followed me all the way home.
<p>I went to see one of those shadow theatres earlier.</p><p><br/></p><p>Really freaked me out - one of them followed me all the way home.</p>
dont take cavern for granite
<p>dont take cavern for granite</p>
you know how successful a joke is by the number of eye roll related injuries
<p>you know how successful a joke is by the number of eye roll related injuries</p>
A luggage handler with a pride flag? No, that's a Trans-porter. I'll show myself out.
<p>A luggage handler with a pride flag? No, that’s a Trans-porter. I’ll show myself out.</p>
ABC Entertainment/Vin Di Bona Productions/Buena Vista Television (2002)
taken from "America's Funniest Home Videos".
Johnny Knoxville Debuts First Trailer For ‘Jackass: Best And Last’ At CinemaCon
'Jackass: Best And Last' unveiled a first trailer at CinemaCon on Thursday, with franchise architect Johnny Knoxville on hand to tout the film.
Johnny Knoxville reveals stunts he can no longer do after announcing new “Jackass 5 ”movie
Don't expect Jackass star Johnny Knoxville to pull the same stunts he did once upon a time. The fearless reality star, who launched his signature MTV show in 2000 and went on to produce multiple ...
'Jackass: Best and last' first look: Johnny Knoxville and his crew prepare to say goodbye
A quarter-century after changing television forever with their legendary MTV show, the original "Jackass" crew is saying ...
The Fifth ‘Jackass’ Movie Will Also Be the Last
Best and Lastbecause it is indeed the last movie in the series. A post on Knoxville’s Instagram account announcing the title ...
A free ‘Jackass’ art show is headed to LA Nov. 14-16
As the iconic stunt performer and actor Johnny Knoxville has been known to say, “Welcome to Jackass!” For this weekend only, a “Jackass” art show is coming to Los Angeles to celebrate the 25th ...
Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
A year ago I posted here about a small experiment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162363I build one absurd web project every month and publish it on https://absurd.websiteI kept going.There are now 48 projects.The idea is still the same - I build mostly unnecessary web projects that sit somewhere between experiments, jokes, products, and art.But over time they’ve started moving more toward net art than just experimental web.Some recent ones:VandalAds - a banner f
One of ‘The Office’s Funniest Jokes Was Originally Cut for Being Too Much
Dozens of jokes from The Office stand out as some of the series’ very best, or at least most memorable. From Jim gaslighting Dwight about his identity using his actor friend, who is Asian (played by Randall Park), to Michael’s outrageous “Prison Mike” persona, there’s almost too many moments to choose from.
10 funniest Far Side comics that make numbers hilarious
In these ten comics from The Far Side's original syndicated run, Larson tackles square roots, calculus and math puzzles in ...
Show HN: A 24/7 live stream where AI writes a new song about the current time
A clock radio from the 1950s played music and showed the time. I wanted to see what happens when you combined an old idea with a new one — the music itself tells you the time. It's also hilarious.This is a fully automated YouTube live stream. Every few minutes, a new AI-generated song plays. Every song is in a different genre. Every song's lyrics are about what time it is right now. The system generates them ahead of time using Suno's API, builds video segments with FFmpeg, and st