Ads that I like: #100

Opening gambit: our children are lucky because they will live far longer than us.

Flanking manoeuvre: they should thank their lucky stars that the medical science has made all of this possible. By 'medical science', read doctor (as in 'Mengele').

Frontal assault: the MAN who is RESPONSIBLE for prolonging your children's lives LOVES to smoke. LOVES IT. In fact, the smokes - POSSIBLY - explain his EXTRAORDINARY ~~superpowers~~ skills.

Dubious conclusion: Docs are TOPS. Docs love to SMOKE. Ciggies must be GREAT.

As a side note, I'd also like to draw attention to the fantabulous 'T-Zone' theory: FORGET THE EVIDENCE, your throat DOESN'T LIE. Even when you're bombarding it with carcinogens.

Comments

Roddy said…

Smoked Camel?! I wonder what it tastes like. I would have thought a butcher rather than a doctor. Marvels of modern medicine!

25 May 2010 at 12:41

Magpie said…

I can't believe these ads. It's amazing what they put out there in the past...I guess it's amazing some of what they put out there now too. :)

25 May 2010 at 12:43

smudgeon said…

Got a light?

25 May 2010 at 19:46

Kris McCracken said…

Roddy, camel dung.

Magpie, they had some nerve.

Me, never been a smoker. Mug's game.

28 May 2010 at 09:00

Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it...

I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral

There was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong.

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In dreams begin responsibilities.

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This will hurt me...

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