For a couple of months now, I’ve been seeing the eBay “It” commercials- where people are using various “It” shaped items while The Monkeys’ Sleepy Jean<\/i> plays. That song is one of those that gets in my head and stays there for days. It’s a good catchy tune, although I couldn’t figure out why they chose that song.<\/p>\n
Recently, I was having drinks with some co-workers in a bar that had closed-captioning enabled on the televisions. When the eBay commercial came on, I was surprised to see a caption that read “(The Monkeys’ Sleepy Jean<\/i> plays)”. Why would you close-caption the name of a song? Seems like useless information for people who cannot hear music. For whatever reason, I continued watching long enough to see the lyrics start to appear, and I suddenly understood why all of those commercials use that that song. The second line of the chorus:<\/p>\n “Oh what can it mean?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Just a little nugget for your Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n Update:<\/strong> I just love<\/em> the internets. Within 2 hours, I received a comment<\/a> from accesibility consultant Joe Clark<\/a> (no relation), addressing my question above. Read Joe’s comment<\/a>, and then have a look at his site. I especially enjoyed reading why Joe is interested in captioning<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For a couple of months now, I’ve been seeing the eBay “It” commercials- where people are using various “It” shaped items while The Monkeys’ Sleepy Jean plays. That song is one of those that gets in my head and stays there for days. It’s a good catchy tune, although I couldn’t figure out why they […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n