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Advertising says:

by Dovina

Member since 2004 · Posted 1 Mar 2005 · 10 comments

be yourself conform to trends dress different dress in style eat healthfully eat tasty fat workout relax invest spend credit is good don’t pay interest do it yourself call a pro run sit hurry wait so go with the averages you’ll do all right

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[10] jroday 1-Mar-05/10:31 AM Reply
It's a catch to it all,we all have been a sucker for Advertisement sometime in our life.
[n/a] Dovina › jroday 2-Mar-05/10:33 AM Reply
Suckers all. I fall for the Budweiser Bears. They make me want to drink Bud.
[n/a] Stephen Robins › Dovina 3-Mar-05/6:33 AM Reply
Spaz.
[10] Dan garcia-Black 2-Mar-05/8:44 AM Reply
You are at your best when you do the math. The feeling I get from this poem is “Ennui and TV.”
[n/a] Dovina › Dan garcia-Black 2-Mar-05/10:31 AM Reply
You are at your best when you do the pathos, or would you prefer I said, “worst.”

(Curry + White Car + Home by 9) /3 = two hours typing, then TV
(Ennui + TV) / 2 = Sleep.
(Toothache + Beer) /2 = Sweet Dreams +/- 20% contingency
[10] Dan garcia-Black › Dovina 2-Mar-05/11:37 AM Reply
You forget (Curry+toothache+beer)/2 in your equation-- but you're right anyway. Perhaps curry = 0.
[n/a] richa 2-Mar-05/11:39 AM Reply
Eat healthfully? If you really believe advertising is some great contradiction because some people want you to spent your money on their tat and not someone else's but that someone else wants the opposite then I would at least suggest portraying these people asking you to be fat or to 'eat healthfully'. And what is the spacing all about, 44 words on 31 lines!
[n/a] Dovina › richa 3-Mar-05/6:45 AM Reply
It always bothers me when people say they eat healthy food, as if the health of the food matters. What they think they are eating is healthful food. That’s what advertisers are promoting in products like breakfast cereal. On the other side are McDonalds and its look-alikes that promote tasty food which usually contains too much saturated fat (which could add to body weight but not necessarily; that’s another use of the word “fat.”). The dichotomy is tasty fat verses healthful food.

So it goes throughout the 31 lines (counting blank lines) and 44 words – dichotomous pairs.
[5] Bachus 2-Mar-05/3:17 PM Reply
Contrived crap
[10] zodiac 6-Mar-05/7:17 AM Reply
Why isn't different an adverb?