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CIPC #77: Samsung advertisement

Posted on July 17, 2018

Samsung is known as one of the biggest and most famous electronics manufacturers in the world, but it is also an adjective used in music…

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CIPC #73: Ronzoni commercial

Posted on June 19, 2018

If you have read some of my other blog posts, you will have noticed that I usually start with a short text providing context for…

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CIPC #53: Highland queen advertisement

Posted on January 30, 2018February 4, 2018

“The good old days.” What rot! Rarely has such a huge amount of bullshit been concentrated in one sentence.  In the old days, people died…

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CIPC #50: Rocky III publicity shot

Posted on January 10, 2018January 10, 2018

From all the sports in the world, boxing is the most mystifying to me. I just cannot picture any decent person answering the question ‘what…

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CIPC #49: L’Islam – c’est aussi notre histoire

Posted on December 26, 2017

At the time of writing there is an ongoing exhibition in Brussels about the history of Islam in Europe. For the official poster, the organisers…

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CIPC #45: Red Bull advertisement

Posted on November 28, 2017

While we’re on the topic of advertisement for drinks featuring chess, let’s talk about Red Bull. It is a relatively new drink, launched in Austria…

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CIPC #44: Smirnoff advertisement

Posted on November 21, 2017November 28, 2017

Sometimes I have serious difficulty starting one of these posts. For example, what could I possibly tell about Smirnoff that not everybody knows already? The…

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CIPC #43: Universum Bremen

Posted on November 14, 2017December 2, 2017

Suppose for a moment that by some strange twist of fate you end up in Bremen for a day or two. Maybe the Deutsche Bahn…

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CIPC #25: Pepsi Cola advertisement

Posted on July 12, 2017

Nowadays, there is a light version of pretty much every foodstuff you can think of. There’s light soft drinks, there’s light chips, there’s light fries…

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CIPC #20: Promofilm liga Antwerpen

Posted on May 23, 2017June 6, 2017

What is the last place where you would expect an impossible position to appear on the chessboard? I don’t know precisely what my own answer…

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