Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for July 18, 2018

Sounds like a come-on to me.

Back in the ’60s there was a Clorox commercial that went something like this:

We’ve taken the Clorox away from all the housewives on Easy Street of Somewhere in the USA.

After one month all their whites, sheets, etc. are dingy and grey.

Even dumb school kid, me, could figure out that they didn’t take the CLOROX from all the households.

They took all the BLEACH.

That’s when I learned to listen to what advertisers were REALLY saying.

And the sheets started out as dark green.

You and me both, Cosmo ! ! !

Just the other day, I got an EXCLUSIVE offer. I wondered, who are they excluding? They’d sell their dam product to anyone who would pay for it.

I always wondered, if a product was New and Improved , what was wrong with the old product that we’d been buying ?

Then there is the paint drying and grass growing program next.

I like the 50 ounce bottles of Arm and Hammer laundry detergent that tout “25% More Detergent” and then in small print “vs 40 ounce Detergents.”

Not more loads – simply that 50 oz is 25% bigger than 40 oz.

Ah the wonders of merchandising.

Sitting there watching that twaddle is proof that you don’t have a life. Don’t just change the channel, get off your duff and DO something.

And for real excitement, he could be watching the golf channel.

We have an in-house laundry at my Cooperative and I don’t recall anyone ever comparing laundry like on the commercials. I think I’d leave is some nimbob ever wanted to compare sheets and drawers.

But they were a lovely pastel color before they were washed.

What’s he watching, a soap opera?!

My favorite is “No other product cleans (whitens, brightens, tastes…) better!” Which doesn’t say any of the others clean any worse…