Blatent lies in advertising

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Just in WHSmith's, the illiterate mans bookshop and noted they are have a novel writing competition. Nice work if you can get - thinks I - and then note how they are doing it. There are a number of notices with the opening lines of a few popular bestsellers of the last couple of years and then a line like "When Ian Rankin wrote this he was unemployed". Etc.

However it has the opening line of Man & Boy my Mister Tony Parsons and bald faced next to it it says "When Tony Parsons wrote this line he was working in a gin factory". Bollocks say I, so what other lies have you seen in ads of late.

― Pete, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Why ambassador you are spoiling us!"

― mark s, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark, leave the room for comedic has-been reference.

― Nick, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most high street sales are lies, because they have the same items on sale every single day of the year. Or so it seems.

― james, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― mark s, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what other lies have you seen in ads of late

That 'no civilian casualties' thing is a hoot. Har.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Betamax: Format of the future.

― Bill, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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DAstoor is a penis head

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hanley I hate you so much right now.

― Nick, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete, I think you're missing a deeper joke here: when Parsons wrote his first novel, he was working in some kind of factory. However, those previous novels have now been Stalinised out of history, so Man And Boy is his 'first novel'. And if his first novel was written while he was working in a factory, then Man And Boy must have been written while he was working in the gin fac

― Mark Morris, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark, was the end of that sentence erased in a pique of Stalinist revisionism as well? I'm aware that the gin factory line is almost definately a joke from Mr Parsons himself - but Walter Henry Smith should have spotted it.

― Pete, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You're expecting fact-checking at WH Smith? I think all that hanging out with students is eroding your critical faculties.

― Mark Morris, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a Nivea advert that says the experience of putting the over-priced gloop on your face is 'like fresh summer rain' - while the subjectivity of the statement stops it from being a 'lie' it is still pungent bullshit.

― Will McKenzie, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My critical faculties were eroded a long, long time ago. Pretty much about the time Wham! released Freedom.

― Pete, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think (if memory serves) that Benecol and Ice White both had to change their advertising because they were making 'medicinal claims'. If they claim their products have a biological effect on the body, this means they are Medicines and need a Medicines Licence. They changed their advertising, getting rid of the claims and thereby the need for costly payments to the Medicines Control Agency.

While on the subject of advertising, who else has seen the WHO IS DAVE MATTHEWS? poster and felt the need to scrawl A WANKER in red pen underneath?

― Madchen, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Me. Bloody 'teaser' campaigns.

― Will McKenzie, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have scrawled in Black pen on one in Camden "The bloke who wet himself once in 3B" - for he was. Still I am also the man who wrote a thorough dissection of The Nutty Professor 2 on a poster in Victoria and was well known for defacing Fargo posters way back when (my mobile phone gag got in the Standard).

I only wish I had been around with my black pen when Earthquake came out. Colouring in the H and the bottom bar of the E renders it nigh on hilarious.

― Pete, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Blatant lies??? THE LYNX EFFECT! When have I ever had results from that? NEVER!!!!

― Kodanshi, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lynx Africa has a pronounced effect on me. In THAT way, as well.

― Madchen, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When have I ever had results from that

I thought you never used the first person singular of the verb 'to be', Kodanshi.
Lucy - put it away, it's unseemly.

― Nick, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The current run of BT Internet ads, where the 'fun thing' (puppy, football) is taken away after a certain time, unlike BTInternet which is completely free to access and available 24/7. This has now been exposed as utterly untrue, as subscribers are discovering that they can never establish a connection and, when they complain, are advised to spend three times as much on the broadband service instead (whether ADSL is available through their local exchange or not).

So, perhaps, rather than BT suggesting that, with them, you get to play with the puppy all the time, they should show the puppy being locked inside a steel box and an angry gorilla introduced into the garden instead.

― Michael Jones, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whowver named NICE biscuits. They're crap. No flavour, no chocolate, no fruit,no nuts, caramel or anything else worth eating.

― Billy Dods, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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