Television ads inspire wry observations
If I reach 2010, I shall tell of TV advertising back in 2005:
• Automobiles: Instead of close looks at interiors and shapes, the ads show the car doing 70 mph on mountain curves while a voice screams about the wonder auto. Comment: I do not want a car that needs such speed to sell itself.
• Medicines: The ads show an old man acting young, a young woman sneezing in a flower garden, or a middle-aged man looking lustfully at wife or girlfriend, wondering if he needs four hours or 36. Then the admonition, "Ask your doctor." Comment: Poor Doc. He must keep up with every new pill. Med school never predicted this.
• Cell phones: Free minutes, free calls, loud statements, complete confusion about who is the best. Comment: I do not have a cell phone.
• Orange juice: Better than mixing broccoli, sardines and peanuts. Comment: I like orange juice, but I do not want to think I am mixing sardines and broccoli.
• Furniture: Always 50 or 60 percent off. Comment: Who set the original price?
• Hamburgers. Comment: My mouth will not open that wide.
Dick Douglas
Greensboro
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Maybe American mouths will evolve to be wider to accomodate the foot-wide burgers in the coming decades?
Posted on July 2, 2005 6:06 AM
And when Eric says evolve, just leave him at that.
Posted on July 2, 2005 12:56 PM