On Two Advertisements; also, Reading
Tiger Woods' recent Nike ad was pretty damn appalling: whoring the memory of his dead father in order to continue whoring himself to his corporate sponsors.
In light of that, the following was very amusing: Cracked.com's Rejected Version. Quoting from one of the greatest movies of all time doubles the win.
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My commute has let me do a lot of reading recently. Having thoroughly enjoyed Byzantium, a history of the medieval empire, I'm now onto a much-browned 1941 primer called Comparative Religion by the Reverend Doctor Alan Coates Bouquet. I'm up to page thirty, and have finally got past the introductory blether and am about to start the book proper. I have however already had more than my £1.50's worth of enjoyment from the back cover, which features an adorably quaint advertisement for Pear's soap:
By appointment
to H.M. The King
Feel its
TONIC ACTION
You can actually feel Pears Soap doing your skin good
while you are washing. A pleasant tingling sensation
tells you that its special tonic properties are reviving
the vitality which is the secret of a healthy complexion.
Pears Soap wears down without waste to the thinnest
wafer, and is the most economical of all good toilet soaps.
Pears
TRANSPARENT SOAP 6D. A CAKE
MATCHLESS FOR THE COMPLEXION
The book is only very short (probably only a few Tube journeys' length), so I'm pleased that today's post brought an illustrated, annotated edition of the famous mathematical satire, Flatland. I've read several books that relied heavily on it as a source and which fascinated me endlessly when I was younger, and I'm looking forward to getting my teeth into the original.
In light of that, the following was very amusing: Cracked.com's Rejected Version. Quoting from one of the greatest movies of all time doubles the win.
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My commute has let me do a lot of reading recently. Having thoroughly enjoyed Byzantium, a history of the medieval empire, I'm now onto a much-browned 1941 primer called Comparative Religion by the Reverend Doctor Alan Coates Bouquet. I'm up to page thirty, and have finally got past the introductory blether and am about to start the book proper. I have however already had more than my £1.50's worth of enjoyment from the back cover, which features an adorably quaint advertisement for Pear's soap:
By appointment
to H.M. The King
Feel its
TONIC ACTION
You can actually feel Pears Soap doing your skin good
while you are washing. A pleasant tingling sensation
tells you that its special tonic properties are reviving
the vitality which is the secret of a healthy complexion.
Pears Soap wears down without waste to the thinnest
wafer, and is the most economical of all good toilet soaps.
Pears
TRANSPARENT SOAP 6D. A CAKE
MATCHLESS FOR THE COMPLEXION
The book is only very short (probably only a few Tube journeys' length), so I'm pleased that today's post brought an illustrated, annotated edition of the famous mathematical satire, Flatland. I've read several books that relied heavily on it as a source and which fascinated me endlessly when I was younger, and I'm looking forward to getting my teeth into the original.