Oh, how the mighty have fallen: Ben Curtis, famous just a few years ago as "Steven the Dell Dude," is now a waiter / bartender at Tortilla Flats in New York. Although the Steven ads were hugely popular and generated tons of buzz (and revenue) for Dell, the company eventually dropped the campaign after Ben got arrested for buying pot in 2003 -- shocking no one who actually watched the commercials, but apparently not the message Dell wanted to send the parents fronting the cash for all those machines. Although he's down to slinging drinks, Ben's taking it in stride, saying "There were times when I made boatloads of money as an actor, but here I can be myself." That doesn't mean he's given up the dream just yet: he's hoping to score big with his band, Whale, which he says has "the green light," but has "decided to take a little time off to record our EP and package ourselves properly." Hm, seems like a perfect opportunity to get back together with Dell, actually -- it could use some new music after getting caught using GarageBand's built-in loops in that
XPS One teaser.
posted November 8th 2007 3:09PM
This is your Dell....
This is your Dell on drugs.
Most effective anti-drug commercial EVER.
HAHAHA
Thats great man...
Sersiouly though, I like how dell tried to be "hip" with their commercials and it ended up biting them in the ass...
I will admit i boght a dell during that campaign, but subsequently moved on to apple. At least their commercials don't have druggies in them.
When will dell just go under? ther new commericals with teh color laptops SUCKS. I mean jesus, look at the nano and imac commercials, seroisuly they should take a note.
Depends who you ask.
I tried to buy my wife a Mac laptop for her graduate school classes, but she wanted nothing to do with it because of the PC guy and Mac guy commercials; the Mac guy hipster gave her the creeps.
@Bludelf
I will admit i boght a dell during that campaign, but subsequently moved on to apple. At least their commercials don't have druggies in them.
You don't think Eminem has ever used drugs?
What tool buys a computer based on who is slinging it?
@ BludElf
No apple just has ex- druggies who's thinning ponytails are the last vestige of their of their former selves. Their black turtlenecks proclaim to the world "I swear I'm not the man"
Thousands.
What do you think a "fanboy" is??
@BludElf: Never saw the Ellen Feis "switch" commercials I take it. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2-UuIEOcss
err...dude....you don't need to travel to far to see evidence of drug induced brain damage.
Just travel to your nearest Apple store and see the hipster / petuli oil wearing "genius bar" pot-heads.
@Bludelf
What about Ellen Feise? :p
@ BludElf
Yeah, and here's a movie clip with the "Mac Guy" from the Mac vs. PC commercials: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaa2X0g9bhA
The way he is looking at the camera in that picture is moderately frightening to me.
"In my spare time, I like to check out teenybopper chat rooms."
/shudder
By the way Engadget....
He's at TORTILLA Flats. Not Tequila flats.
"Dude, you got a daqari!"
LOL!
Good for him for getting on with his life. Good luck.
wait, is that tequilla flats, or Tortilla Flats? Tortilla flats is an interesting place, not half bad is you can make it before the insaney crowds...
It's Tortilla flats.
He's just the Tequila dude.
http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/11/dell_dude_now_tequila_dude_at.html
Is Tortilla Flats on Greenwich *Street* in the Village? Nice place. I wouldn't mind getting Dude's tortilla.
He got arrested? Really? I thought marijuana was decriminalized in NY state. Must have been his third offense, or > 25g, which is a lot of pot!
http://norml.org/index.cfm?wtm_view=&Group_ID=4554
wrong. You still get arrested. But you won't spend the night in jail.
Dude, your getting minimum wage.
Plus tips.
umm. it's actually "you're". How much are you making professor?
Maybe he has a Ph.D in computer engineering and doesn't ever have to spell for shit? Misspelling one word in a comment on engadget doesn't make him an idiot...
That's not misspelling; it's using an entirely different and incorrect word. Or, in other words, it is a homophonic error characterised by using a possessive adjective ("your") when "you're", a contraction of "you" and "are", should have been used.
even being a computer programmer you should know how to spell.. i mean in html.. one and your page is assed up..
Dude, refill my coffee.
I could come up with these all day
Waiters get the best weed.
Not that I'd know.
Because your not a waiter and your weed sucks?
Looks like the Dell Dude has gone the way of Dell... wayyyyy dowwwwwwn. Therefore, it stands to reason that Ellen Feiss will soon be Secretary of State.
I would much prefer Ellen Feiss to the current inhabitant of that office...
Oh, and there was already a band named Whale. Maybe if he weren't stoned, or if he were on a computer that worked, he'd know that!
Yeah, and thats his band dofus.
What's a dofus?
Whale was a Swedish band from the 90s. Do you really not remember Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe?
a dofus is someone who yaps before thinking..errr...kinda like joey
that video was freaky...with the girl in the dress and braces licking the lollipop and looking at torsos of naked men...
baby we love you, baby we love you, baby yea!
definitely looks like the interior of Tortilla Flats, not Tequila Flats
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=215280268
his band is a joke! better find something else to hope for dell dude.
Would be hilarious if this guy hooked up with Ellen Feiss.
That made me laugh out loud (which is not always a good idea in a quiet office).
TK
Hes off Broadway too
[img]http://images.broadwayworld.com/columnpic/joy07.jpg[/img]
http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=4575
Dude you band name is taken by the actual band 'Whale'.
Hobo Humpin' Slobo-Babe!
Heh, I still loved the headline of "Dude, you're getting a... -rrested". Priceless.
My favorite joke at the time was, "I thought pot was a Gateway drug!".
What??? An out-of-work actor waiting tables???
I don't think he made boatloads of money. Unless it were an itty-bitty boat.
I don't believe it.
Habeeb it