Badda Bing, Badda Boom - my Nissan Cube coup de gras

According to the Urban Dictionary (which I have secretly been contributing to for years), the definition of “Badda bing, badda boom” is: a way of saying, “That’s it, it’s all taken care of”.

And that’s how I feel about the Nissan Hyper Cube Contest at this point, especially after my HyperCube entry - along with my new Twitter BFF Cube Man - scored a prime feature spot in a recent Public Relations Report article. A whole bunch of people tweeted me last night about the article and I couldn’t believe my eyes when I got home! What are the chances that out of 500 entrants I would be one of the two people they chose to highlight in their article (um, actually the chances are 1 in 250 - but I digress).

Here’s the screenshot they used in the article of my “Daddy Loses It” video:

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So this is my coup de gras, which is a phrase I do not take lightly considering I just found out that it means “death blow intended to end the suffering of a wounded creature.” Seriously, I’ve been using coup de gras as a descriptor equivalent to the phrase “cherry on the cake” for years now. No wonder people look at me so strangely.

In the context of this blog post though we’ll take coup de grace to mean “cherry on the cake” and by that (and this) I mean the appearance of me and my cardboard car in Public Relations Report as the final push I needed in winning one of those sweet and lovely Nissan Cubes. I mean pardon my terrible French, mais qu’est-ce que vous voulez? Blood?

So that’s it, I’ve made all the videos I can make, I’ve bugged Ashton Kutcher to the point that I kind of feel like a bit of a stalker and I’ve spent way too much time optimizing this blog in search engines for strange things like “Nissan Cube Saves Baby Whale.”

So bring it on Nissan! I anxiously await the announcement of the winners!

Thanks to Tyson Faa and Francisco Chacin who let me know about the Public Relations Report article on Twitter.

How to get tons of votes online and win a shiny new car

Well, this is the last of the videos I’ve produced for the Nissan HyperCube contest, hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it!

Here’s the other videos I produced for the HyperCube contest - my favorite (and the easiest to produce) is still the German Cube Dance:

Nissan Hyper Cube Dance Off

Nissan Cube TV: Daddy Loses it! (this one took an entire day, but it was a lot of fun, especially for the kids)

I would never kill a baby seal!

Ashton - kindly tweet this please (he never did, grrrrr…)

The Nissan Hyper Cube Uber Social Media Marketing Plan

I bet you I have the Crappiest Car in Canada

I am willing to bet you money that I have the crappiest car in Canada.

And if you think you can top it, send me photos or video to prove it.

If you can convince me and a panel of esteemed judges (the readers of this website) that your car is crappier than mine, I’ll pick up the tab on $100 dinner anywhere in Canada - I’ll get you a gift certificate or just send you the money or whatever. I’ll post all the entries on this blog, which will make for some pretty interesting posts!

Why am I doing this? Two reasons: 1) I think it would be kind of cool to have the crappiest car in all of Canada and, (2) I’m one of the final contestants to win a brand new Nissan Cube car and I figure this would be a great way to pick up the sympathy vote (if you already feel sorry for me, you can go here and vote for me).

So here goes.

This is my 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit with 318,789 kilometres on the odometer. I actually really like it, it’s very cheap on gas, passes air quality inspections with ease and works great, except of course for the non-existent parking brake, torn seats and lack of door handles. My wife and children (and some of the neighbors) mockingly gave it the name “speed.”

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My Nissan Hyper Cube Facebook group

I started a page on Facebook as part of my quest to win one of 50 Nissan Cubes in the Nissan Hyper Cube contest.

If you’re a Facebooker (who isn’t these days), would be cool if you joined the group and show your support, I just started it so its kind of lonely at the moment!

You can click here to go to my Hey Nissan! Hyper Cube Me! facebook group.

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No baby seals or Nissan Cubes were harmed in this video

Award-winning cartoonist (and good friend), Mark Fiore and I worked up this video for my entry in the Nissan Hyper Cube contest.

If you enjoy it, please take a moment to go here and vote for me - voting closes on May 15, 2009 and you can vote once a day everyday until then.

Dear Ashton - just one teeny tiny tweet

My 5 year old daughter Taryn is totally into helping me in this final round of the Nissan Hyper Cube contest.

She said we should get someone big on Twitter to ask people to vote for us (seriously, she also watches more YouTube than regular TV).

So I thought why not go to the new King of Twitter himself, Ashton Kutcher.

Dear Ashton,

If you’re read this post, it’s because I’ve asked my humble following of 4,500 on Twitter to send a Tweet to you.

The voice in the video is Taryn’s, her voice is so much more convincing than mine! And yes, that actually is my car, it’s an ‘84 diesel Rabbit, it’s awesome, but I think it might be time to move on.

Anyways, Ashton, if you would do Taryn and I this little favor of simply Tweeting to your 1 million + followers on Twitter to go and vote for us in the Hyper Cube contest that would be very cool!

All the info they need is in this post I wrote right here.

For all of you Tweeters that want to help out, please send a Tweet to Ashton (@aplusk), send him the link for this post and a kind word or two. Thanks as always, this should be FUN to see if we can actually make this happen.

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Nissan Cube TV: Daddy loses it

Here’s a video that the family and I worked up on the weekend for the Nissan Cube car contest I am so very close to winning.

It was a lot of fun, my daughter Taryn now wants to be movie director when she grows up.

If you enjoy the video and think I should win one of the 50 brand new Nissan Cubes that are up for grabs please take a moment to go my voting page and vote for me, you can find it here: http://tinyurl.com/d23a4d - if you really, really want to help out please email this video to your friends and ask them to vote for me too!

ENJOY!

Nissan Cube the Second Octuplet Mom this year - 3rd in history

VANCOUVER - There are unconfirmed reports tonight that Octuplets have been born at a local hospital here - making this the second set of Octuplets born in less than a year and the third ever in recorded history.

The mother, whose name has not been released by hospital officials due to privacy concerns, and the 8 newborns are said to be in good condition. One intrepid reporter was able to snap a quick somewhat blurry photo through the 5th story hospital window of the room the mother is said to be residing. At this point the remains unconfirmed, but it does appear that there are 8 identifiable newborns in the picture.

While unable to confirm the authenticity of the photo Chief Medical Doctor Ray Charelston did agree that, “it looks like there are 7 Nissan Cubes and 1 ‘Twitter bird’ in the photo.”

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The Nissan Hyper Cube Dance - huge hit in Germany

I’m doing a lot of research on the history of the Nissan Cube car now that I’m a finalist in the Nissan Hyper Cube contest. I’m finding the most amazing little factoids.

Did you know that there’s actually a Hyper Cube dance? I won’t blame you if you don’t it’s not that well known here in Canada, but it is a HUGE in the EU, especially Germany.

Check it out:

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Nissan Cube Saves Baby Whale

A touching moment between nature and car

VANCOUVER - In a story usually only seen in Hollywood, a Nissan Cube saved a baby whale off the coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.

Coast Guard received a call from a local whale watching tour operator at 9:34 am yesterday that a Gray whale calf at 9:34 am yesterday that a Gray whale calf appeared to have been separated from its mother in a storm the night before. Coast Guard ship Captain, Neil McKredulous gave us exclusive details on how the story unfolded and the dramatic rescue.

“When we got the call about the little fella’ we tried our best to get a vessel out to take a look right away, but unfortunately all our ships were at a press conference photo op on the Saint Lawrence with the Prime Minister,” says McKredulous.

Without a boat, McKredulous and his crew had all but given up hope of a rescue when they received a call from a Nissan Cube reporting that it had spotted the baby Gray whale. “We get this call from a friggin’ car calling itself the ‘Nissan Cube’ telling us it’s in a friggin’ rowboat and its managed to lasso the baby whale and take it back to its mother. We thought it was a prank, until we saw the picture.”

The picture was taken by local fisherman Charles Carraway who witnessed the touching moment when the Nissan Cube and the Gray whale said goodbye for the last. “A very touching moment between nature and car,” commented Carraway.