Miller Lite is kicking off a new ad campaign this month, called “Man Laws”, who are crafted by, of course, “Men of the Square Table”. Joining the likes of Burt Reynolds, Eddie Griffin, and Jerome Bettis at the Square Table is SpaceShipOne pilot Brian Binnie. Binnie doesn’t get much face time—and only one line—in the three commercials on the site, although in one of them it looks like he’s trying really hard not to crack up. But then, it’s tough to compete with—or take too seriously—Burt Reynolds.
It does look like the ad writers were imbibing a bit too much in the product when drafting Binnie’s Bio on the site: “He was in the pilot’s seat during the world’s first manned homemade spacecraft as it cruised into low earth orbit at a speech of Mach 1.2.” Homemade? Low earth orbit? Mach 1.2? No matter, they got the general theme right: “But beyond his abilities as a rocket test pilot, Mr. Binnie took a chair on the council for one reason. He shrugged off the nay sayers, followed his heart and fulfilled every 5-year-old boy’s dream to become an astronaut.”
(Thanks to collectSPACE for the tip about the ad.)
[…] SpaceShipOne pilot Brian Binnie has another honor to add to his collection: he received an honorary doctorate from Aberdeen University Monday. Binnie is the first Scotsman in space; his father is a former physicist at the university. Binnie said it was great honor to return to Scotland and receive the degree, certainly nearly as big an honor as being a Man of the Square Table. […]