Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Lies Well Disguised, #14.

Taglines. The bows on our shiny packages of ad bullshit. Most are flat-out lies. This week on Gawker, I looked at a few, plus posted a button sporting the first tagline I ever sold. It was more of a gross exaggeration than a lie. (link)
For previous Lies Well Disguised, go here & here.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It may well be that your world is one big lie, but pray tell, where's the lie in Kills Bugs Dead? Does Raid only Knocks Bugs Out?

10:43 AM  
Blogger copyranter said...

Raid didn't work for me a couple of times. Probably the urban bugs were fed it as kids.

11:44 AM  
Blogger HighJive said...

kulka sounds like some offshoot of the ku klux klan. were the wiring devices for explosives?

and most importantly, why would anyone want to wear one of those buttons?

12:35 AM  
Blogger copyranter said...

first question: no.

second question: I have no idea.

7:49 AM  

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