Weak Men, Read.
I initially read this as ‘Weak Men Read,’ and thought, ‘ah at last, the answer to the weaknesses that beset my flabby, undernourished body lie in my recklessly literate pursuits.’
There may be a more than a grain of truth in that.
Vintage adverts are always enjoyable, but one wonders what the generations one hundred years from now will make of our own. My television has just informed me in shrill, hysterical tones that ‘Bacteria do not take holidays!’ What to make of this, I simply do not know. Perhaps Dr. McLaughlin’s electric belt therapy may be of some help.
July 1st, 2007 at 5:34 pm
100 years from now, the preserved minds of today’s advertising executives will be subjected to a cleansing process known as ‘The Thousand Horrors’–wherein they die, and die, and die–and then, suitably free of their basic human survival drives and the shameless capitalistic urges they fostered, they will be made to watch their adverts again–and again, and again–in vastly accelerated time. Hundreds of hours per second. Protein bi-complex! People who tend to be live longer also occasionally report having thought about eating wholegrain foods! Are you hungry? Then buy this! Are you fat? Then buy this! Are you confused by conflicting signals? Then inject this! And by the way, do you need a loan?
And then–thousands of years of experiential time later–they will be given new bodies and thrown into the streets of the future. Where they will apologise. To everybody. One by one.
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:09 am
No, Donal: the advert about bacteria not taking vacations was to inform you, in no uncertain terms, that you are underperforming. After all, if even bacteria work all of the time….
Neil: marketing people had human drives? When? You need to put those drives into the marketing people, and then be made to watch their own adverts.