Martin the GEICO Gecko

We're getting a little fed up and bored with GEICO lately. Not because they provide bad service or because they price gouge their policy holders. They only charged us $320 a year to insure our 2003 Land Rover with 108k miles. What a deal! Warren Buffet is a genius and we think GEICO is a very well run company. And our policy application only took 10 minutes to fill out online! What we can't stand, and what we feel has become overrated are the ads with that stupid little gecko (named Martin). Seriously, they're not funny anymore. We appreciate the pseudo pun: geico, gecko etc. But frankly we don't care whether this gecko is English, or Australian, or freakin' Bahamian or Bermudian. Since Martin is a day gecko, and given his English accent, our research indicates it's most plausible that he's either from Madagascar or Seychelles (former UK colonies with day geckos). Regardless, he's been on TV since the Screen Actor Guild strike in 1999 and we want him off the airwaves. Geckos, in captivity, are only supposed to live for seven to nine years! We feel Martin's time is overdue.

Welcome Alternative: We don't have anything against geckos. We used to live in Singapore and geckos actually come in handy because they eat mosquitos and hunt down flies around the house. They also have a cool Spiderman-like quality that enables them to scale up walls and windows with ease. But they're kinda stupid and hide between door hinges (ouch), make really disturbing chirping noises, and they're not stealth enough to escape cats. But at the end of the day Martin is just an animated computer graphic. We would implore IPG (ad agency that invented the gecko) to retire Martin and call up some new talent to the GEICO bench. Just a thought; if Derek Jeter can promote those retarded Ford cars, why couldn't LeBron James do car insurance? Remember the Chrysler LeBaron? Ah-ha... There's a marketable enough idea.