JoS. A. Bank is advertising it’s biggest sale ever. In a television blitz, JoS. A. Bank, men’s clothier, is offering it’s very best 2 for 1 sale ever. For three days only beginning next week, if you purchase any 2 items, everything in the store is 100% off with the 2nd item free.
That’s right, buy any 2 items in the store and the 1st one is 100% off and the 2nd one is absolutely free!
If any of my readers speak Russian, I would appreciate a translation of their current satellite name which reads in English as Phobos-Grunt.
Diane Bozzi of Rochester, N.H. was the victum of a thief last week, who stole a urn from her unlocked car; an urn containing her mother’s ashes. Fourtunately, the thief wasn’t interested in Ms. Bozzi’s mother’s ashes and returned the urn several days later. Ms. Bozzi explained that ever since her mother’s death in 2002 she has been carrying the ashes with her to her weekly bingo games because she brought her good luck.
This news is bound to hurt rabbit’s foot sales.
The FBI has just arrested seven members of a renegade Amish sect for attacking other Amish male members. The religious differences between the two groups has led to multiple assaults by the renegade group who shave the beards of their victims and then cut their hair; a humilation in the Amish religion.
The leader of the hair-cutting group has been identified as Sam Mullet.
I often wonder what ad agencies and their clients are thinking. No more so than this morning. Following a Boston Globe front-page article on the woes caused by the amount of snow that has pelted the Greater Boston area, there is an ad for Icelandair on page 12 that trumpets:
“The best part of a trip to London is Iceland…stop over in Iceland at no additional airfare!”
What audience are they trying to reach?? Wouldn’t a more effective headline read:
“Book now to London and we promise NOT to stop in Iceland!!”