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- From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
- Subject: Re: Subtle (i.e. obscure) cigarette adverts
- Message-ID: <By1E2G.BBu@exnet.co.uk>
- Organization: ExNet Systems Ltd Public Access News, London, UK
- References: <BxyrLG.5w9@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Nov19.204919.3758@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <CAH.92Nov20183348@fat-controller.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:49:27 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <CAH.92Nov20183348@fat-controller.bham.ac.uk> cah@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ceri Hopkins) writes:
-
- >On the subject of advertising, my favourite at the moment (for similar
- >reasons) is one which I believe [open to correction] is only shown
- >locally in the Midlands for Birmingham based East End foods (Asian
- >importer and packager). They buy slots quite late on C4 (and
- >Central??) -- must be quite cheap now. Anyway, the one I'm thinking
- >about proceeds as follows....
- >
- >[Shot of cartons of fruit juice]
- >
- >Voice over (slow and soft): "Drink East End Mango Juice... It's good."
- >
- >Nice and simple, eh?
-
- Well, this is (at least) one level removed from what they want:
-
- ``Buy East End Mango Juice.''
-
- Or perhaps even that is a meta-request, eg what they really want to say
- is:
-
- ``Give us your money.''
-
- If you think about it, it is amazing how indirect advertisers have to
- be for us to think about the ads as clever and fun. Sort of like:
-
- typedef void simpleAd_t(money m); /* A fn that casts money into a void. B^> */
-
- simpleAd_t *******ciggy_ad;
-
- Damon
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