TV Advertisement 1

[CajunCenturion]

A restaurant advertisting one of its current specials, closes with the following line:

"Never-ending pop-corn shrimp, but it won't last forever. So hurry on down to ... "


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[ftechguy]

I also happen to catch an ad like the one mentioned above--I believe it said "the shrimp are neverending, but this deal is"
hehe

 

[SkipVought]

Welllllllllllll....

the shrimp are neverending...

up to a point...

considering such limits as

plate capacity,

your stomach capacity,

the store's inventory,

the chain's inventory

the available shrimp on the market (Forrest, where ARE YOU!!!!)

It's ALMOST as mind boggling as bonless chicken!

Skip,
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[ESquared]

Boneless chicken has nothing on chickenless bones!

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[chessbot]

How about 100-hour sales that last 4 days?

24 x 4 = 96!?!

(This assumes that the stores are even open 24 hours per day.)

--Chessbot

"So it goes."
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

 

[Dimandja]

And you "save" by shelling out $19.95.

 

[craigsboyd]

I save so much during my wife's shopping sprees that it is a wonder I have to work at all!

http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com

 

[rasETL]

November 18th

On

http://www.msn.com

Great Deals at Target.com
Holiday gifts under $25, $50 or $100
Free shipping on over 7,000 gifts

I don't think it is worth it to buy 7,001 gifts just to get free shipping.

 

[MikeBarone]

Never-ending" and "won't last forever"

Contradiction in terms!

Mike Barone

http://www.cgiscript.net

"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."

- Evelyn Waugh

 

[ESquared]

Nice one, rasanders.

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(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)

 

[RodKnowlton]

If I were a baker, I'd open a shop called "Scratch".

Guest: Is this cake from a box?
Host: No, it's from Scratch.



Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L
CompTIA Linux+
CompTIA Security+

 

[SF0751]

Scratch Baking in San Antonio, Texas - it's where I got my wedding cake from!

Susan
"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

 

[rasETL]

Another one on

http://www.msn.com

...

Gifts for home under $20 – Target.com

Who buys gifts for their home.

Who has a home that provides you with a Christmas
Wish List?

 

[ESquared]

I don't know anyone who owns a home that cost less than $20!

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

When JCPenney advertise "save 30-60%", surely that would actually count as a flt-rate saving of $12 (30 - 60% = 12)?

They would be far better off advertising "save between 30% and 60%" or "save 30% to 60%", I would have thought?

Dan

 

[ESquared]

Well, it's legitimate for the "percent" to modify both numbers.

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(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)

 

[dyarwood]

The UK National Lottery are currently running a TV advert claiming that your chances of winning are "increased 100%" if you actually buy a ticket (as opposed to not buying a ticket)

My maths would go like this.

I don't buy a ticket I have 0% chance of winning.

I buy a ticket. My chances of winning go up 100%

0% + 100% = 100%

Therefore if I buy a ticket I am certain to win on the lottery.

 

[jsteph]

Here's a common trick:
(For $100 item on sale for $75) Instead of:
Regularly $100 -- save 25%.
They will say
Now $75 -- that's a 33% savings!

And that's correct--if you were to pay the 'regular' price of $100 that would be $25 (33% of $75) more that you'd pay, so you've 'saved' 33% -- instead of getting 25% off.
--J

 

[Katy44]

dyarwood, I still don't understand the "My chances of winning go up 100%" - as far as I can see, that's just wrong! Good advertsibg ploy though - and I heard it again the other day, so there obviously haven't been too many complaints!

 

[asrisk]

Hmm...

Lets suppose your chance of winning without a ticket was 10% (ok, bear with me) and buying a ticket increased your chance by 100%, I would read that to be 100% of 10%, so your new chance of winning (with a ticket) would be 20% (your original 10%, plus 100% of 10%).

Therefore, since your original chance is actually 0%, increasing this by 100% leaves you with... 0% + (0%*100%) = still nil.

Sounds pretty accurate to me. The advert is basically saying "don't waste your money"

Andy.

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[dyarwood]

I like that one asrisk. Prefer my way of calculating the odds but think your way is closer to the truth!