🚀 go-pugleaf

Sam the Marcher wrote:

> I was listening to Christiana Fillalagi reading copy for a diet plan
> where they send you the food. Like Seattle Sutton. But Not.
> 
> Well she going over the menu and she came to the line, "And my
> favorite"!  Then proceeds to stumble over the line. Is she so excited
> about her telling us her  favorite or is she a lousy reader of copy?

My favorite spot making the rounds these days is for an ointment called
"Skin Zinc," featuring
"real" testimonials: 

* The first "satisfied customer," who claims to be a chronic, longtime
excema sufferer, can't even pronounce the word (he calls it "ex-SEMMA").

* The second voiceover - a giddy woman, raves about the fact that she's
got "no more bleeding." Way too much information, lady.

*Then, just to add a final insult to the listener's intelligence, the
third and final voiceover (run througha cheap phone voice filter) marvels
at the fact that while Skin Zinc is a "medical miracle, 
doctors don't carry" it, and he "doesn't know why"...

I'll tell you why, you non-union shill. It's because the shit you're
peddling is snake oil.

And coming in second place for this month's worst radio spot is the goofy
baldguy with the speech impediment who hops from hair clinic to hair
clinic, extolling the virtues of his transplant. As I recall, he started
shilling for an outfit called Puig Medical group many, many years ago, and
has been whoring around Chicago hair clinics ever since. 

Incidentally, this guy is actually the writer and producer of his own
spots (he runs a tinhorn "advertising agency" here in the city, as I
recall). I met him once at a Hawks game, and he was the
rudest, most arrogant prick imaginable... as if he were an actual celebrity.

Final irony: his plug job is positively atrocious.

Cheers!
Nature Boy

"Your monstrous ugliness breeds monstrous hate. I can use that hate."

- Dr. Vollin (as played by Bela Lugosi), 'The Raven'

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