...when, during the course of your having a cavity filled, she has a bodyguard standing at the foot of the dental chair, in case you wig out ( Read more... )

Haven't posted about a cheesy and/or wildly egregious ad campaign in a while, so I thought I'd toss another log on the pile.

A few months ago, I picked up a hard cover movie tie-in reissue, from 1943, of Eric Ambler's 1937 espionage thriller Background to Danger; the publisher of this edition, Triangle Books, took a still from the movie version ( Read more... )

I've noticed a truck parked alongside one of Detroit's -- and, more precisely, metro Detroit's -- more storied streets, Woodward Avenue, over the last couple of weeks, that has given me pause.

The truck belongs to what is apparently a nationally franchised company.

The company's name? College Hunks Hauling Junk.

*PauseI suppose it's a ( Read more... )

Yes, it's time for another installment of exceptionally stupid, cheesy, or suggestive ads found in one of my old comic books; feast your eyes on this puppy:

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GET BIG WITH BRUNO!

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The thing that's torked me off the most so far this week isn't the "Do they?/Don't they?" enigma vis-à-vis North Korea and the nuke they may or may not have detonated on Monday, 9 October; it isn't even the fact that, at my place of employment, not only do I get to perform as an auditor (even though that isn't my main function), I get to be audited ( Read more... )

OK, I've discovered the answer to the burning question of the day, namely: "What could possibly be more annoying than British telecomm company Vonage's U.S. commercials that end with a maddeningly tuneless "Oooh-oooh, oooh-ooh-ooh" repeated over a fifteen second interval that seems like fifteen years?"

Answer: Having your professionally-trained ( Read more... )