Qwest ads seduce penny-pinching Luddites

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Draftfcb has launched some new ads for Qwest that tout the company's high-speed Internet service as both cheap and great for data protection. (Those two message are widely kept separate, as "cheap data protection" doesn't sound reassuring.) In one ad, a young woman explains she's working on a farm because she lost her thesis on "medieval cooking rituals" to a computer crash. Was she really going to get a better job with that major? The actress gives the best performance so far this year by someone pretending to stick his or her arm inside a cow.

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