Just curious to know if anyone else has noticed the "negative advertising" lately? I mean advertisers that are advertising their negatives as a positive.

One ad is from Cub Cadet lawn mowers. They stress that they have a "cast iron axle". Now, being a do it your selfer, a cast iron axle isn't a positive to me.

Then there's some e-mail loan company advertising that you're approved within 90 seconds and will get your money within "12 days". I don't think I've ever waited 12 days to get my money and that's from the time I applied. Hell, I usually had it spent within 12 days!

I just saw another one from one of the fast food chains and they were advertising their banana splits. They said that they put "two big scoops of ice cream" on them. I've been eating banana splits all my life and have never had one under three scoops.

Then there's the diet pill where they tell you that if your 5 or 10 pounds overweight then their pill isn't for you, it's only for people who want to lose X number of pounds and serious dieters because it's so expensive and because it works. God, if you want to lose 10 pounds how could you not buy that pill?

Or the Listerine commercial where the lady says "it's not as intense" as everyone clears the room. Wonder if that hurt the sales of the original Listerine?

Wildman, (loving it)

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2004

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I still get a kick out of the Hersey bar that hasn't raised it's price but keeps shrinking the product.

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2004

Wildman,

Haven't seen any commercials lately that I remember. I was going to watch the SuperBowl for the commercials (they used to be pretty clever). This year I actually really watched the game (and enjoyed the football). I missed the Budweiser commercial with the donkey (obviously heard about it, though). Did I mention that Janet Jackson had part of her top ripped off during the Half Time Show? (Chortle!). Actually (now that I *have* mentioned it), I was embarrassed to watch the stupid Half Brain Show with my mom. I actually left the room and went to another teevee, partly to try to find the Move-On commercial on CNN (which I never did find). Unfortunately, I was back in time to watch the top-off scene. This is really thread drift now, so I'm actually going to start another thread about the garbage on teevee. But yeah, commercials do take a very strange perspective, don't they? What kind of planet do those folks live on?

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2004