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Wassup wit dat??????
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From
20/12/2005 15:43:31
Al Doman (Online)
M3 Enterprises Inc.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
 
 
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19/12/2005 20:40:39
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Politics
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>A commercial for chicken (of the cooking kind, not the kind done for you already) has the announcer saying "Not just grain fed, but vegetable grain fed. With no animal by-products."!
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>So... Is there some kind of grain that isn't vegetable?... Does "grain" come in an 'animal by-products' variety?
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>Inquiring minds need to know.

You're not thinking like an advertiser. A farmer could mix 5 grams of grain into a 5 tonne vat of other non-grain chicken feed; the resultant chickens would be "grain fed", a literally-true statement that would stand up in court. I'm surprised at this lapse in your normally-reliable cynicism ;)

I think what that advertiser wanted to say was "vegetarian [or vegan] grain-fed".

While we're on this topic, my favourite (and a favourite of car dealers) is "Priced to Sell!"

Then there was a recent "Dilbert" strip. Dogbert is starting a new magazine. He says to the PHB: "Would you like to advertise in our magazine? We have between 1 and 2 billion readers!"

Later he confides to Dilbert: "I found a way to make 3 readers sound like a lot".
Regards. Al

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." -- Isaac Asimov
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -- Isaac Asimov

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