enigmatic proclamations on cars

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I just saw a car which on first glance looked like a non-black-cab taxi, with adverts for n0rwich uni0n insurance on it

on closer inspection - it wz stopped at the lights where i wz crossing - it actually said "n0rwich uni0n [forget-this-word, sorry] insurance: don't believe the lie, don't fall into the trap" - and then a phone number, presumably to explain what the lie and the trap were

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

What was the number

What was the lie.

What was the trap?

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(ps i am better i think but not 100% still - i had a brilliant long dream abt being spike from buffy last night, and my still searingly painful tummy was in fact my vampire nature which i wz battling to conquer!!)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't have a notebook w.me pete, so i can answer none of those qs

it strikes me that this kind of advert is i. actionable, and ii. useless

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Possibly in the petty hours of spray painting by the cab driver it might have been
iii. satisfying.

(Norwich Union have diddled a lot of cab drivers - boo flippin' hoo - over very cheap insurance which then did not seem to pay out much when the cheapskates asked them to chirp up).

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

That is bizarre. I saw somethign just like it yesterday. Sign saying "WATCH OUT FOR MET LIFE!" on a white van. Is norwich somehow connected to Met Life?

― fletrejet, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

We were driving home along this narrow country road the week before last, when we saw this little sign sticking in the grass verge, like a little bit of flat wood. It had a question mark on it. I thought it was teh funney, but Jill got REALLY freaked out by it.

The "cleverer" adverts get, the more they annoy me, I find.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been really annoyed by the "please refrain from licking this bus" ads lately. Like I would lick a routemaster. I mean, not even if it had a larger than lifesize picture of Julian Casablancas' butt on it.

― Spontaneous Existence Failure (kate), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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