# Dumbest or most patently false advertising slogans

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 11, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-or-most-patently-false-advertising-slogans/259340 "2004-08-11T12:34:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-or-most-patently-false-advertising-slogans/259340/81 "2004-08-27T01:54:16Z")

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> [@overlyverbose](#):
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> The Angus Diet from Burger King. I hate those damn commercials. And the fine print. “The Angus Diet is not an actual diet.” I dunno if you have actually gone to the web site,  
> [www.angusdiet.com](http://www.angusdiet.com/), but they’re actually selling a book entitled “The Angus Diet,” which they’re advertising is for anyone “with a lot of time to burn.” Admittedly, the site is mostly a joke site, but BK has gone to a hell of a lot of effort for a joke. And those commercials are some of the stupidest, most obnoxious I’ve seen in a long time.

Yeah, & they’re only serving to advertise Hardee’s, which identified itself with Angus beef first.

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