Conference thebay::joyoflex

I recently got some junk mail from one of those outfits that wants people
to subscribe to a series of paperbacks - the Romance kind, of course, a
group calling themselves "Loveswept".

One of their "letters from satisfied customers" caught my eye:

	"One book is better than the next...
	 They have not come up with an adjec-
	 tive to express how really delightful
	 Loveswepts are."

To me, the funniest thing about it is that the Loveswept people actually
PUBLISHED this, as if it were a serious letter of praise!

Perhaps they were just being honest, though. After all, if the books are
what I suspect they are, the letter is absolutely correct!

-b

    Come visit your Mass. Chevy dealers and "see why we're not number
    one for nothing".
    
    
    				-- edp

A headache pill called Anadin used the following slogan to market
their product in England:

	"Headache? Nothing acts faster than Anadin"

	Nigel

    Re: .3  Anadin is in fact identical to the product marketed as
    Anacin in the US, even down to the packaging.  Why the one-letter
    difference beats me.

Schiller, reviewing "Nathan der Wiese", quoted from another
review/commentary by another critic: 
    
    "'Nobody can deny that Lessing is one of the great
    playwrights of our generation.'
    
    I am this nobody; I deny it outright."

    re:.3
    
    Reminds me of the argument that masturbation was better than sex:
    
    	(1) Masturbation is better than nothing.
    	(2) Nothing is better than sex!
    	(3) Masturbation must then be better than sex. Q.E.D.
    
    re:.5
    
    Sounds like a joke I remember from somewhere:
    
    	"Due to popular demand (Peter Popular demanded it)...|
    
    --- jerry

    I saw one this morning on the tube.  There was this General Mosors
    ad that started,
    
    "Explode the myth -- Buicks are less expensive than Oldsmobiles."
    [At least I _think_ those were the two car brands.]  My reaction
    was, "Oh, then they're more expensive?"  They, of course, were pushing
    Buicks.                                    
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

	Explode the myth -- Buicks are less expensive than Oldsmobiles






	I couldn't fail to disagree with you less !



	Talk about CLARITY in advertising.  Oy vey

    
    I got plenty of time for a pain. I am surprised that there are some
    people that do not have time for that at all. They miss a lot ;-)

    
    Advertising is a good deal like marriage. There may be a better way,
    but what is it?
    
    One form of advertising thats a liability instead of an asset is a
    person blowing his own horn.
    
    The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops
    the clock to save time.
    
    A loan company's advertisement: We take the moaning and groaning out of
    loaning.
    
    Nothing makes installment buying as easy as the advertising.
    
    
    
    
                                Ray

    Hi,
    
    	Yesterday, I came across some promotional literature for a Ski
    Mountain that billed itself as "the largest Ski Mountain closest to
    Boston".  My immediate reaction upon reading this was "what the h*ll
    does that mean?".  It seems that they meant to say either that it is
    the largest mountain within a fixed distance from Boston, or that, of
    all mountains of at least a given size, it is the closest to
    Boston.
    	Are they using some formula such as
    
                    (size of mountain)/(distance from Boston)
    
    and, if so, which factor do they consider more important?
    
    -Tom
    
    PS.  We still had a great day skiing.

    No formula.  My semantic analysis of the (deliberately?) vague claim
    yields the sense that there is no larger mountain closer to Boston.
    
    -dick