Request for Question Clarification by
rainbow-ga
on
30 Dec 2005 09:02 PST
Hi maoptimist,
I believe the phrase you are referring to is: "If someone wrote a book
about your life, would anybody want to read it?" which originated in a
commercial for the US Navy.
Some references to this can be found at the following sites:
"You ever see that Navy commercial that says, "If someone wrote a book
about your life, would anybody want to read it?"..."
http://www.chicagocomics.com/reviews/reviews1.html
""If someone wrote a book about your life, would anybody want to read
it?" uhm, thank the US navy commercial for that boost of
self-confidence."
Google's cache of http://pandora.nothing.ca/myths/2002_02.html
"Anybody know where I might find an ad for the Navy online? I'm
looking for the one that says, "If somebody wrote a book about your
life, would anybody want to read it?" If all I can get is the
soundtrack to the ad that would be fine. Anybody have any idea where I
could find it? Ad Critic didn't have it."
http://grant.henninger.name/archives/2004_04_11.html
"The U.S. Navy has been running TV commercials asking something along
the lines of "if someone wrote a book about your life would anybody
want to read it?"
It's a good question, even if the answer is usually "no."
The ads mostly appear on MTV or during sporting events and are
targeted at a younger audience that is more apt to enlist. The
voice-over guy on those, by the way, is character actor Keith David
who played Cameron Diaz's step-dad in "There's something about Mary."
He's been in about 30 movies over the past 20 years."
http://albanyherald.net/zonearchive/0303/zone031703.html
Please let me know if this information suffices as an answer to your question.
Best wishes,
Rainbow
