A couple more subverts, and advert-related snippets

[avevale_intelligencer]

Maryland cookies. "More important than your child's future. (If you're a woman, that is.)"

Cheese strings. "You will be so infuriated by the nonsensicality of this advert that it will actually be physically painful for you to remember the product's name, but we don't care, we've been paid."

Incidentally, can anyone remember the name of that artist in the sixties who did very detailed silhouettes of people against swirly psychedelic backgrounds? Same sort of vintage as Kay Nielsen, but I don't think it was her.

And is anyone not immediately charmed by the idea of a car you can drive up in, get out of and then pick up like a piece of cloth and take away rolled up under your arm?

Comments

[eoforyth.livejournal.com]

I've only seen the Maryland one once, and that was exactly the reaction I had to it.

I've reached the stage where I 'tune-out' every time the cheese string thing comes on, but had at one point sat there thinking that it obviously wasn't a human or animal, so the easiest solution to the threat to international air travel posed by a glass of milk within processed cheese was a controlled explosion, like any other suspicious package.

I like the idea of the car, but how would you explain to the insurance company that you accidentally left it in the loo/restaurant/cinema and it wasn't there when you went back for it? The one where you can pull off the top layer of your kitchen (and now your bathroom too, I notice) complete with all the grime would be of far more interest to me at the moment