But to consider this Subject in its most ridiculous Lights, Advertisements are of great Use to the Vulgar: First of all, as they a...re Instruments of Ambition. A Man that is by no Means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the Advertisements.... A Second Use which this Sort of Writings have been turned to of late Years, has been the Management of Controversy, insomuch that above half the Advertisements one meets with now-a-Days are purely Polemical.... The Third and last Use of these Writings is, to inform the World where they may be furnished with almost every Thing that is necessary for Life. If a Man has Pains in his Head, Cholicks in his Bowels, or Spots in his Clothes, he may here meet with proper Cures and Remedies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The self-consciousness of Pine Ridge manifests itself at the village's edge in such signs as "Drive Keerful," "Don't Hit Our Young... 'uns," and "You-all Hurry Back"Mlocutions which nearly all Arkansas hill people use daily but would never dream of putting in print.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During Prohibition days, when South Carolina was actively advertising the iodine content of its vegetables, the Hell Hole brand of... 'liquid corn' was notorious with its waggish slogan: 'Not a Goiter in a Gallon.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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I could buy one Tape and get another free. I accept- Ed the deal, paid for one tape and... Chose a free one. But since I've been Repeatedly billed for my free tape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the earth a many-colored tower of longing rises. There are many ads (to help pay for all this).... Something interesting is happening on every landing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaini...ng about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing adv...ertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I suppose that one of the psychological principles of advertising is to so hammer the name of your product into the mind of the ti...mid buyer that when he is confronted with a brusk demand for an order he can't think of anything else to say, whether he wants it or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »