oh please
A succinct and pertinent quote on advertising:
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Fortuitously, I then came across a stunning exemplar of the above statement. Consider the following:
Paris Hilton promoting the Carl's Jr. burger, in a desperately ham-fisted (haha, pun unintended) advertising attempt to convince the moronic women of the world that, yes! eat this and you will look just like her! If anyone actually falls for this and promptly demolishes their life savings on crates of Carl's Jr burgers, I will consider it a tax on idiocy. Perhaps the VAT will pay for their gastric bypass.
Why can't advertisers tell the truth? In the absence of veracity and honesty in this churlish world of ours, I consider it my duty and obligation to furnish the following:
and hope that it will provide some hope of redemption for the gullible and cretinous amongst us.
We shall conveniently overlook the fact that I am considering actually going into advertising for a career, of course.