Imagine driving for a work one day, moving your eyes away from the driving wheel for a second just to change the radio station, and suddenly this bus appears in front of you. Would it confuse you? Perhaps you would even be frightened for a minute, until you noticed that what you are seeing is just an illusionary billboard sticker. Certain insurance company thought of a smart way to rise attention about its service. As I mentioned previously, best way to burn your message into the masses brain, is by shocking them. This photo was submitted by Jenn, who wrote us the following words:
I love you site! Visit it daily ever since it was featured on Yahoo. Haven’t come across any problems yet. :-) I’ve been sharing your site with a few other friends, and one of them sent me this advertisement link. Thought I’d share it with you. Keep up the good work!
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hahahaha very smart indeed!
i wonder what ‘even apeldoorn bellen’ means!
the back of the front of the bus haha – yes i did type this correctly .
‘Even Apeldoorn bellen’ means ‘Just call Apeldoorn’. Apeldoorn is the town in which the insurance company resides…
I think about 99% of Holland knows the commercials, and about 90% doesn’t know which company belongs to the commercials…
The back says “Just call us.” Pretty cool.
even apeldoorn bellen means: just call apeldoorn, which is the town where the insurance company is :)
From this (http://www.flixxy.com/apeldoorn-insurance-ufo.htm) website comes this explanation:
Centraal Beheer is an insurance company based in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. As one of the largest insurance companies in the country, it is usually referred to as “Apeldoorn”. All ads are followed by the phrase “Even Apeldoorn bellen” (”Let’s call Apeldoorn”), which is now used in Holland as a general phrase meaning “oops!”
The HQ of this insurance company is in the Dutch place “Apeldoorn”. The phrase says “just call Apeldoorn for a minute” and is the catchphrase of the company (it is a form of ironical humor (or something like that)) , they also had funny commercials like a family going home from the zoo with a lion on the car roof without noticing it:p
This is one of many ‘even apeldoorn bellen’ billboards. They are all from an insurance company (Achmea) with its head office in Apeldoorn. It means ‘just call Apeldoorn’.
Just wanted to share that with you, since it is vital for appreciating the deeper meaning of the billboard.
Woot super funny!!!
its a dutch joke (i’m dutch).
There is a company that sells insurrances named : apledooren (they are well known for this kind of billboards and stuf).
So the bus sez: just call Apeldoorn!
I love it. It would really stop people from tailgating buses I betcha.
even apeldoorn bellen means something like :
‘just call apeldoorn’, in which apeldoorn is a city, and in that city there is a certain insurance company i believe
I already new that one.
But ‘even Apeldoorn bellen’ is in Dutch.
It means: just call apeldoorn.
Nice one indeed.
This bus back advertisement is from an insurance company located in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. It is famous for the line “Even Apeldoorn bellen” which somewhat means like: “Got to call Apeldoorn…”
Unfortunately, this year on the Queen’s Birthday in Apeldoorn, some idiot drove through the crowd, trying to harm the Queen and her family.
Therefore, the insurance company will not use this line anymore in all of her ads.
OH WOW At first I even thought it was REAL and “That’s not an optical illusion!” Then I read on and OMGeh! Bang! I’m definitely calling that insurance company to compliment them.
Anyways, what is that guy doing?
“Even Apeldoorn bellen” means something like “Let’s call Apeldoorn”. It’s a slogan used by ‘Centraal Beheer Achmea’, an insurance company located in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.
Centraal Beheer Achmea and it’s slogan are well known in the Netherlands, thanks to numerous humoristic commercials about the company. (most of them are brilliant, in my opinion)
Luckly for you guys, most of them are english! (don’t know, don’t ask)
that means, i want to call my insurance company ( one of them in Holland )
Haha, nice! That would be a bit startling to see in front of you!
Even Apeldoorn bellen means: Let’s call Apeldoorn. This is a advertisement of “Centraal Beheer” which is a Dutch insurance company located in Apeldoorn. That slogan is very well known in the Netherlands for calling Centraal Beheer. They have a lot more of this advertisements and commercials. They even won several prices with them! I think youtube has a lot of these commercials.
“Even Apeldoorn bellen” is Dutch for “Just call Apeldoorn”. It’s a commercial for an insurance company in Apeldoorn. :D
Even apeldoorn bellen is dutch.
Its means something like Let’s call apeldoorn!
Its the slogan in commericals for a insurance company. Apeldoorn is a city in holland, guess they started with that name or something..:)
It’s a Dutch bus, I see it almost every day. ”Even Apeldoorn Bellen” means ”Call Apeldoorn fast” or something like that, it’s hard to translate. Apeldoorn is a city in The Netherlands, it’s the home of a big insurance company called Achmea. This illusion is thus an insurance ad, i hope you get the joke now.
Even apeldoorn bellen is dutch.
Its means something like just call apeldoorn!
Its the slogan in commericals for a insurance company. Apeldoorn is a city in holland, guess they started with that name or something..:)
I would be terrified if I took my eyes off the road for a second, and suddenly saw this in front of me. What if that happened, and someone swerved to avoid it, and caused a massive pile-up. Shocking is a good advertising method, but it could lead to danger.
hahah lovely!
“even apeldoorn bellen” means : just calling apeldoon ( apeldoorn is a city in Holland )
in Holland you’ve got very funny commercials from “even apeldoorn bellen”
Very funny! ‘Even Apeldoorn bellen’ is the slogan this insurance company always uses for its advertising campaign, and it has become a sort of synonym for ‘we have a problem’. For examples: type in ‘Even Apeldoorn bellen’in Youtube.
These are just a few examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=4pxowCeLIWg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5vPDJY1xPE
Oew that a buscompany from the netherlands
you know where the capital is Amsterdam :D
wel anyway Even Apeldoorn bellen means
just phone Apeldoorn (the insurance company)
To bad that I havent seen this billboard jet
It pretty funny :D
“even apeldoorn bellen” The biggest ensurens company of the netherlands is in a city named apeldoorn. There slogan is if something goes wrong “Even apeldoorn bellen”. It means let’s make a call to apeldoorn.
LoL, it appears that people are very intent on making sure other people know this is a dutch insurance company…
Anyway, I love all their commercials and ads, they’re often quite funny…
i think people now know what it means…….
Oh great news : did you know that “even apeldoorn bellen” means just call Apeldoorn.
lol we get it now! :P Crazy how many times people want to say the excact same thing xD
Really cool, though I’ve seen that once alredy… abou the meaning, it’s hard to know if 99% of the people above KNOW it or r just copying from the others… anyways, who’s the poor bald man, representing the idiot bus driver? o.O
Cheers!
Reminds me of the u-haul decals that made it appear as if the truck roll-up-door was open. It was intended to show ‘how much’ you could pack inside, however, clueless motorists created dangerous situations when they’d try and flag down the driver, or dial 911, thinking the door was actually open.
So, could any of you tell me what ‘even apeldoorn bellen’ means?? Hahahahahaahah:D
Awesome ad.
This image is a definite keeper!
I love the MOI vista sidebar gadget.
I just wonder why so many people commenting here feel the need to restate what the phrase on the bus means. 21 out of 29 (30 – if you count this comment) comments say the same thing.
I´m sorry to dispapoint you all, but I´m GREEK and that bus is in Athens, is the airport shuttle.
Even Apeldoorn bellen means Even beautiful girls sleep at my dorm.
Fun fact: they won’t be able to use that slogan anymore, as there was a ‘terrorist’ attack on the Dutch queen in Apeldoorn recently…
now I’ll stay in touch..
Even appeldoorn bellen is the dutch translation of “just call apeldoorn”, the slogan for one of hollands biggest insurance companies.
if you guys want to, and don’t get it, i can translate it again in some other way perhaps ?
I honestly think this is one of the dumbest media stunts seen for advertising. The amount of wrecks such a stupid ad can cause is mind boggling.
Of course being an insurance company it’s a bonus to em.
if i remember right, Apeldoorn is a town, also this is a bad idea, it could cause a crash, it is cool yes but not a good idea
i am a kid but i get it its a bilebord poster haha verey funny
that is esey to finend out you no