Come Home Billy Bond
June 18th, 2006Today I happened across a new site. Well, new to me. It’s not actually new, because it already had four exciting adventures!! on it. The site is at willbond.com, and it chronicles the adventures of Will Bond, “the most famous roll of adhesive tape in the world”.
Perhaps at this point I should explain that the site is run by a company that makes adhesive tapes.
In his latest adventure, amply illustrated by badly edited photographs (the ealier adventures are apparently on a lower budget and merely feature bad drawings), he is sent to the Middle East, where he must gain access to a skyscraper to spy on a supervillain. But alas! When he arrives he notices an inferior structural glazing tape has been used on the windows! And while the windows are removed for re-taping, he sneaks in.
Precisely how the roll of adhesive tape then overpowers a supervillain and his goons is left open to interpretation, but I’m sure they’ve got this all worked out.
This is either an incredibly cunning deliberately-naff piece of viral advertising or, far more probably, a really crap execution of a piece of blatant committee thinking from the company that brought you “a whole world of self-adhesive tape”.
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February 17th, 2007 at 00:00
I’ve just read it and i will be recommending to all the Hollywood types that i know as a potential new movie!
February 17th, 2007 at 00:00
“Self-adhesive tape”? As opposed to what, normal tape you have to smear glue on the back of to be sticky?
February 17th, 2007 at 00:00
Well, you see, we sneer, but just a few days after I posted this someone at work suggested we might need some metalised adhesive tape, and thanks to Will Bond I knew exectly where to look.
February 17th, 2007 at 00:00
Self-adhesive as opposed to adhesives you lick, presumably.
February 17th, 2007 at 00:00
Self-adhesive as opposed to adhesives you lick, presumably.
February 17th, 2007 at 00:00
For some odd reason, Paul, I initially read your name as Paul Five.
February 17th, 2007 at 00:00
That person who didn’t offer a name must have real trouble with his casettes.
February 17th, 2007 at 00:00
I keep reading “Adhere” as “Ad here”.
February 17th, 2007 at 00:00
In fairness, “self-adhesive” ought really be the same thing as “adhesive”, so it is partly tautological. In fact, if anything it’s worse — if sellotape didn’t stick to itself it would be much easier to use.
But much harder to get on the rolls. Hmm. This is more complicated than I thought…
March 25th, 2007 at 12:52
Life is really like a roll of your tape!
Stick to your tasks for adhesive’s sake!
I didn’t know that you put my name on your tape
At least it’s not a sticky wicket tape debate!
March 25th, 2007 at 12:54
stick to it!
March 25th, 2007 at 13:53
…
What?
September 26th, 2008 at 12:11
WHY IN HECK ARE YOU AT APATHY SKETCHPAD USING MY NAME? AND FOR WHAT REASON? PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME FROM YOUR SITES- BILLY WILLBOND CANADA
September 26th, 2008 at 12:19
Remove my name BILLY WILLBOND from your weird apathy sketchpad sites – why and for what reason would you use my name? What a creepy outfit to use someone else’s name without permission – I will be contacting INTERPOL if my name is not removed from your sites forthwith.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:28
This is more surreal than a barrel of time.
September 27th, 2008 at 11:31
OI. BILLY WILLBOND. WHAT ARE YOU DOING USING *MY* NAME? DELETE YOUR COMMENT IMMEDIATELY
September 27th, 2008 at 21:38
These comments are already surreal enough. The site is even stranger.
It’s almost the only site I’ve visited in the last 5 years where the pictures are replaced by a “picture missing” icon.
Padstow, “golfing” in quotes? Am I missing some subtle joke that everybody else got?
However, I could see spellmagic and numbermagic on an unfeasibly ugly web page but disappointingly don’t seem particularly magic.