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Bruce Wedding
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« on: July 03, 2009, 05:37:52 PM »
http://consumerist.com/5306170/top-10-ironic-ads-from-history
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« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2009, 06:58:30 PM »
That's good... at first I thought you meant the top 10 intentionally ironic ads -- but it's only in the last 20 years or so that advertising has gotten deliberately ironic.
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« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2009, 11:12:18 PM »
The first car I ever owned was a Bobcat, the Mercury clone of the Pinto. Mine was blue with the white vinyl top. I actually liked the car. Tongue
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« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2009, 12:33:27 PM »
As ironic as they are now, I think the copy in most of them is pretty decent.

How great a headline is "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette!" ??  Grin
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« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2009, 03:55:49 AM »
Yes, the smoking Doctors haha!

Reminds me of the UK's Daily Mash site - where irony is bulldozed with satire.

Loved this one:
"Cancer-proof mouse won't stop smoking"
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
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« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2009, 04:24:18 PM »
I like Gossage's re-make of Olgilvy's "Loudest sound in Rolls" ad...

"At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Land Rover comes from the roar of the engine."
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