"BORING!" - JOHN CLEESE Compaq Commercial

[UlaKogut]

 boring

[CaptainAndyman]

Love these adverts... I just don't see how they would make you want to buy the product! John Cleese is constantly slagging it off!

[mrmunchie65]

ha ha ha it doesn't have everything wheres the pizza?

[pythagoras2010]

this is a hundred times better than the stupid mac vs pc commercials they make today :O

[Rusty0918B]

Well, 40MB of storage went pretty far back in the day.

[tuvetastictwins]

Wow theres a man who know nothing

[TheSmithersy]

Would they ever be allowed to show a murder like this in adverts nowadays?

[crocodile2006]

Wow 1 colour screen... Orange! Awesome!

[Nazrat84]

Can it run Crysis?

[TheMineCraftNuker2]

@Nazrat84 yes

[Moorkh]

Well... talking about dead parrots... attended nobody expected them to show in a compaq commercial, I don't understand the Spanish Inquisition didn't show up at least once.

[Didymosrules]

40 mb. Wow. I would like to see a nerd try to survive with 40 mb. Imagine being locked up in a place like Guantanamo bay and being forced to use a computer with 40 mb in order to survive? Would you A) give the location to your leader, or B) blow the computer up?

[Chayraz2]

@Didymosrules C) because option B) is impossible due to the shitty nature of the PC.

[Sabin06]

40 Mega bits of storage, now days 40 mega bit just isnt enough doesnt cut the cake lol or even a slice for that matter lol.

[princecharmonpoirtoi]

Call me when Compaq has a way to talk to my children live!

[REMLostmyreligion]

You know I had to listen 6 times before I knew what that Compaq Guy said?

[commanderandom1]

john cleese makes me want to buy this computer, even though it's 25 years old

[darkshad0500]

i like his moustache

[pembertonsteven]

@QualityDefinition No he's Harvey Lime "the guy in the next office" in the film Brazil (and as it happens, one of the writers of Brazil). His name is Charles McKeown

[Contextcatcher]

The boring 'arrow of time' strikes man again....Cleese was sharp!

[ObsidianNight21]

Better than the Geico guy.

[robertoproz]

*inhales* - ...Boring..

lol i love cleese. Monty Python - Fawlty Towers. hell if he was in blackadder for a little he would have been at home...Dry humour lol

[C0LL1N]

40MB?? thats a lot for the 80's My tandy 1000 only had a 2MB drive, you could only fit 75% of an mp3 file and that was the whole hard drive right there

[MattTheSaiyan]

Ha ha ha. Clever commercial.

[onethousandsteps]

Did he say 40MB of storage?

[44ch1m]

@onethousandsteps the latest innovation in computer storage

[Envergure]

what the heck is a gas-plasma screen?

[SatoTM3]

can't wait to do this in class!

-stuffs bow into my rucksack-

[Wazzupmanameizfilip]

that is an old ass machine, LOL =]

[katich5]

@Wazzupmanameizfilip In 20 years your "cutting edge" PC's going to be an old ass machine too.

[Wazzupmanameizfilip]

@katich5 yeah it will, and then ill buy another cutting edge PC and so the cycle begins...

[ReBootFan1]

Is that guy really that small?

[ErixPerix]

@ReBootFan1 It's probably a combination of perspective, the fact that there is no reference point aside from the table with the computer and last but not least John Cleese being extremely tall.

[Eskidead]

My dad had one of these, his company bought one back in 1987 to function as a network server. It had only a 20 MB hard disk drive though. But the 5 1/4" floppy disk drive was replaced with a 3 ½" one, which was quite expensive. :P

He had to hand it back to his company around 1996, where it still ran perfectly. I miss that machine. :')

[C21H23CIFNO2]

@C21H23ClFNO2

FUCK you!

There is NOTHING wrong with

taking a big black cock up my ass! >:(

It... f-ff..feels ... so... GOOD!!! ♥

I love you, QualityDefinition.

Fuck me, please.

[luxlucidus]

@QualityDefinition The guy who gets the arrow in the neck is Charles McKeown. Frequent collaborator with the Pythons and a writing partner of Terry Gilliam.

[elemming]

I almost bought one of the one time.

[1xXxBENxXx1]

I would buy this computer.

[Notebooked]

Man, the Spectrum hoster has to be related to Mr. Smokestoomuch in some way.

[SpazzzDog]

And it also weighs as much as a bus!

[th1nd]

wow, that thing actually looks pretty cool

get some new hardware on the inside, and I'd buy it!

[Djhg2000]

I've got one of these (well Portable 386, but it's just a Portable III with a 386 instead of a 286), and I was thinking the exact same thing!

I have the basic plans already, now I've just got to get some money to actually do it...

If I do it I'll post a video of it for sure ;)

[Hykazu]

Gas plasma screen... Quickly Bring me my ball-peen hammer!

[kornguy26]

that thing is a relic i cant believe portable computers looked like that back then now they are flat

[TheLarssan]

Wow. That was a long time ago.

[Govadina]

plasma screen!

[shashwati]

this ad was BEGGING for Michael Palin as the guy who hosts Spectrum...woulda been PERFECT then....plus Mike Palin was waaaaaaaaay better to look at ;)

[AshLuvsJonnyStew]

Aww Charles McKeown bless...

[rbryanhull]

40Mb of storage and 12mHz processor... amazing!

[KRAZYCorps]

"...Boring!"

Yeah, John Cleese would get me to buy just about anything (except dead parrots).

[OmegaRFox]

Wish they would do computer advert like these, not the dell stuff we have to suffer.

[JamNJohnN]

@KRAZYCorps

I get the refrence. lol

[dahvisibleinvisible]

LOL! looks like a toaster. and it has 40 MBS of storage! omgz

[rustednails]

Dart in your neck

[jj9749]

dont tell me it cost $3000 too

[thijsmolenaar]

the guy is Charles McKeown who co-wrote Brazil by Gilliam and is also co-writing the imaginarium of doctor parnassus

[CrazyMofoSfX]

looks like quentin Tarantino's Dad...

[0121ryanh117]

40 MB hard drive.

12 Mhz CPU (is that what he said?)

Gas plasma screen....wtf?

[linuxlove4004]

gas plasma = forerunner to the LCD. it still exists in today's plasmas TV's. the gas plasma displays used in this type of computer were orange, instead of full color.

[12musicismylife12]

its in the 80s, a computer like that wouldve been amazing :)

[0121ryanh117]

Yeah I know. Im not saying that even back then, computer werent amazing its just amazing how far they have come.

[dogharper]

is this the micro machine guy?

[alexc3895]

did he say "highest resolution gas plasma screen"?

[msheldrick1]

yep :D

[suprsonickath]

How fast is he talking (the Compaq guy not Cleese)?

[Urruko264]

i wished they made high end pc's in boxes like that

[hirvi93]

That guy looks like Quentin Tarantino

[thegunner666]

haha my thoughts exactly man

[TheLarssan]

I wonder what will happen if someone calls that number?

[TijlVoet]

maybe somebody should make a video of calling that number....

and then , hmmz i dunno, post it on youtube or something.

[EmericaZac]

i have a 2 year old compaq.. i love this thing.

[joelspan]

I still run a web server off of one of these. Granted, it's a Linux machine now, but it still gets the job done.

Not really, but I figured I'd post it now since it'll show up here sooner or later anyways.

[arul20]

ubuntu?

[Artofkaos]

no thanks im not really into pokemon...

[theskyisfalling15]

ahahahaha, fucking love it

[taz0k2]

holy shit, that guy talks faster than Microsoft Sam on highest speed =D

[swazidoughman]

OH GOSH 12MHZ!!!!!!

[SoullessAtheist]

A 12Mhz chip? LOL It's the Stone Ages.

[Montymio]

40 MB of storage??

[SoullessAtheist]

WOW a WHOLE 40 MB?

What would we do with all that storage space? LOL

[1animegurl1]

I KNOW!

Its unheard of!

Its amazing! How can they fit that much space into that tiny little thing!!??

[thegibbonator]

Hey, in those days it was a miracle that they were able to do even that. :)

[feihcretsaM93]

He was talking and then just...huu!!! Boring!

lol!!

[lilmanual]

isnt that monty python :O

[rjp443]

Seriously? Do you just type things, stream-of-conscious? His name (the tall, moustached gent) is John Cleese. He was an actor in the sketch comedy show "Monty Python's Flying Circus."

It's like you said to Mr. T, "Hey! Aren't you A-Team?" Except in that case, an old-school Clubber-style beat-down would be in order.

I mean, JEEZ, you have videos of Monty Python excerpts favorited on your profile! And you're not a teenager out of the loop! C'moooon, you know better.

[lilmanual]

maybe im 15 and i just lied about my age to see fighting vids :P

[joehabana]

rofl xD

[grubdogcomics]

lol "40 megabytes of storage!" Whoa! Thats way more then the computer i saw today which has half a terabyte of storage!

[DocCaliban]

I like the unstrung bow.  I know, 'weapon nerd'.

[BlackCut]

it is strung, its just hard to tell in low quality lol

[FezzickO]

*gets hit with arrow* NNNALLLH

[stunhabter]

This is just awesome

[RobbieStott]

these adds walk all over Apple's jajajaja

[DanielleBakitus]

My head just exploded...

[ReesesMonkeyXP]

that second guy was in Brazil! (terry gilliam)

[Antoon95]

i can talk that fast everyone doesn't understand me sometimes xD

[aliensrule1]

hahaha lol that was funny... kinda a bit obvious about pulling the arrow tho lol

[zeldarox11]

LMAO wow, 5/5, i can never talk that fast!

[hotdogfilms]

Lol. BTW., did you know the computers in the late 80s to early 90s were 10 times more powerful than the ones used in 1969 for the space mission? Can you imagine how powerful your little dual core is?

[greenegg77]

"Can you imagine how powerful your little dual core is?"

Powerful enough to show midget llama porn in 16 million colors!

[dackjaniels555]

ROFLOL

[bully129]

Please, I get 32 million colors, in HD. My PC even dispenses lotion.

[fullfist]

lol xDDDDD

[CountFruFru]

HaHa :D

[enigmagirl117]

4MB...thats how much room I have on my MP3 player...O_O

[fbsthreads]

are you sure?

thats like one song.

[DeusExMJ12]

I think he said 40 MB :)

[radiofan6872]

*watches on a 2006 laptop*

*laughs*

[AccordionManiac]

lol

[saintaureus]

needs music.

[CompaqVet]

So do you, but we don't carry on about it.

[hexachordal]

haha OWNED

[SriKitchi]

Yeah, completely Owned. I would say PWNED, but I don't know what that means. John Cleese for president!

[GrahamChapman]

"Pwned" is a misspelling of the word "owned" caused by a slip of the fingers when the writer overcompensates and lets his/her fingers skim a little too quickly across the surface of a keyboard, inavertedly hitting the "p" key instead of the neighbouring "o" key. This typo was quickly popularized and-*gets hit by arrow and dies with the soon-to-be well known last word: GLARFGHOOOUSPITTLE-NI!"

[Rusty0918B]

I bet it was pretty bloomin' expensive too!

12MHz was a lot for a portable, I must say. This does seem to be a machine that was ahead of its time. I remember our old AST which dated back to 1987 was only 10 MHz but had the same hard drive space.

[wakyman1995]

haha the way the guy screams is hilarious

[blinkingblythe]

What's interesting is that this computer has a

*PLASMA* screen (albiet a monochrome one).

[lobextomy]

did he say a fast 26 mhz processor? My how far the computer has come in ~20 years

[jmhalder]

no, he said 12mhz... blazing fast

[vwestlife]

FYI to people watching these funny ads... Compaq introduced the Portable Plus in 1983, the Portable II in 1986, and the Portable III in 1987 -- and thanks to CompaqVet, we can see John Cleese doing ads for all three!

[dominatedface]

Computer!? I thought that was a toaster.

[wisteela]

I have one of those (and the 386 version) and that's what people think it looks like. I also think it looks like a defib out of an ambulance.

[tiaomacl]

Good old times with Eckhard Pfeiffer and Lintas in charge, I guess.

[CompaqVet]

Very wrong. This was in the Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto heyday. Back when it was FUN to work for the fastest growing company in the history of the world (fastest to reach 1 billion in sales... a record that Compaq still holds).

[KalimHashar]

Gods that rocks :)

[wisteela]

That rules!

[StevenJMUK]

I'm looking for the Ad He Did for talking pages. I think it's from the early 90s. It was about a house flood.

[wakkakumei]

O_O() Is that Charles McKeown who got shot by an arrow?

[boerni1976]

Yes, its charles McKeown