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Hi, I'm Notes... - Patching Holes

Category IBM/Lotus
Title: Patching Holes (parody of I'm a Mac and I'm a PC advertisement)

Scene:  Notes character is on right dressed business casual, neat and trim.  Exchange character is on left with torn, ripped, ragged clothes.  There's a table next to him with sewing supplies, staplers, tape dispenser, and duct tape.  Scene opens with Exchange character using duct tape to cover up a hole or rip in some piece of clothing.

Notes:  Hi, I'm IBM Lotus Notes/Domino.

Exchange: And I'm Microsoft Exchange.

Notes: Uh, so what happened?  Are you OK?

Exchange:  I'm fine.  It's just that whenever I go out these days, I end up getting all these holes  that I end up having to patch up.  All those people poking and prodding me...  They just ruin everything I wear...

Notes:  That's too bad.

<Exchange character starts to hand the duct tape over to the Notes character.>

Exchange:  Here...  You can use my repair tools.  I have plenty of them.  I can share.

Notes:  No thanks, I'm fine.

Exchange:  No, really...  Holes in your clothes look really bad.

Notes:  But I don't need your repairs.  I'm the most secure messaging system on the market today.  I go out and around, talk to people, go about my business, and my clothes look as good as they did when I left.  I'm fine...

Exchange:  Really?

Notes:  Really...

<Exchange character drops the duct tape roll, bends over to grab it, and the seat of his pants rip out.  He stops halfway down.>

Exchange:  Oh.

<Notes character bends over, grabs the tape roll.>

Notes:  Here, let me get that for you...

<Alternative ending line - Notes: I have some chewing gum if you'd like to borrow it...>

<fade to Notes/Domino logo...>

Comments

Gravatar Image1 - These are really very good, Tom (other than the empty App Dev one, I mean - is that a placeholder, or did something go wrong posting it?). If these aren't on display at The Sphere, maybe a bunch of us should get together and film them there. Since we don't work for IBM, we wouldn't have to jump through lawyer hoops...

Gravatar Image2 - All of these are very nice. However, I wouldn't use either one of your alternate endings.

Cut shot at Exchange going : Oh.

Much better impact. It also leaves the audience on a roll. The other endings are starting a new story not finishing the one already said.

Gravatar Image3 - Thanks for the heads-up about the app dev one. My machine locked up while submitting that one, and I guess it didn't complete fully. I just resaved it and it's now out there.

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