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Old 10-10-2001, 03:23 AM   #1
Pangur Ban
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Join Date: June 3, 2001
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Age: 65
Posts: 569
OK, time to lighten things up a bit …

The following quotes are taken from an Australian Consumer magazine, which has a section showing outrageous advertising claims and printing errors for various products.

All of these are genuine advertisements as published, nothing falsified.

I have removed the brand names to protect the guilty.
( and couldn't resist adding a few of my own comments )

Read and enjoy the unusual things you can buy down in the land down under.

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Electric toothbrush: "Plague Remover"
( Useful in case of biological attack, perhaps? )

Cleaning product: "Cleans and Kills Germs"
( Nothing worse than dirty dead germs )

Skylight: "Get the sun for free !! From only $329 fully installed"
( Sorry, don’t want a sun installed in my house.)

Butter Chicken: "Served with an erotically spiced tomato cream sauce"
( A new reason to eat TV dinners? )

Pita Bread: "Store at room temperature ( 221 Celsius )"
( Some houses BADLY need air-conditioning … )

Margarine Spread: "2 tubs for $1 - Limit of 1 per person"

Telescope: "View the solar system from a safe distance"
( Nah, I wanna do it at close range …)

Bottled Spring Water: "Original recipe"
( 2 of H and 1 of O ?? )

Shower Curtain: "No poison, tasteless"
( In what country in the world do they eat shower curtains? )

Clothes Pegs: "Not a toy - for apes 3 and up"

Instruction booklet for electronic spelling checker: "Owenr's Manual"

Sofa: "Simply oozes quality but it will sponge off"

Vacuum Cleaner: "Comes with 100 channel tuner and on screen display, and child lock"

Tanning salon: "Our sunbeds help relive the days stress and anxiety"
( Once was enough, thank you very much !! )

Toilet paper: "Disposable"
( Didn't know there was any other type ... )

Cordless drill: "Comes with 8 tongue settings"
( A new innovation for dentists that I do not want to see !! )

Floor mop: "Cleans all types of clean surfaces"


Hope you like these - if a get a favourable response I will post some more ….


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