# Get rid of annoying banner ads with this one weird old trick! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950 "2011-02-28T18:27:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/1 "2011-02-28T18:27:59Z")
… That’s all. I just had to say that. I have seen the “weird old trick” meme applied to a puzzling variety of products. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/2 "2011-02-28T18:41:09Z")
Was the weird old trick discovered by a local mom? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/3 "2011-02-28T18:46:53Z")
Yes, but I belive she was a dentist who moonlighted as a bodybuilder. …and she did it for $5.00!!! ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/4 "2011-02-28T19:10:41Z")
Dermatologists hate her. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/5 "2011-02-28T19:12:08Z")
Hey I’m local, and I’m a mom. (Amy weird old tricks I know, are strictly between me and my boyfriend.) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/6 "2011-02-28T19:14:44Z")
I blocked a load of them from appearing on my own website. Bloody thngs. (that is, I filtered them out in my adsense settings) ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/7 "2011-02-28T19:38:24Z")
Yeah… it completely destroys whatever effectiveness the phrase may originally have had as ad copy to use it everywhere, for everything. Now, how do you suppose it happened? Is it one entity with its irons in several fires, trying to save money on paying for ad copy? Perhaps just short on imagination? Or was the original W.O.T. advertisement so wildly successful that people in wildly different industries decided to jump on the bandwagon? _(“Become a successful prostitute with this one weird old trick!”)_ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/8 "2011-02-28T20:19:28Z")
Does Obama want single moms to use the trick? ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/9 "2011-02-28T20:20:04Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > Yeah… it completely destroys whatever effectiveness the phrase may originally have had as ad copy to use it everywhere, for everything. > > Now, how do you suppose it happened? Is it one entity with its irons in several fires, trying to save money on paying for ad copy? Perhaps just short on imagination? > > Or was the original W.O.T. advertisement so wildly successful that people in wildly different industries decided to jump on the bandwagon? _(“Become a successful prostitute with this one weird old trick!”)_ I don’t know if a prostitute can be successful with just _one_ weird old trick, unless that weird old trick is pretty wealthy… ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/10 "2011-02-28T20:47:25Z")
Yeah, I smeared acai berries across my monitor and now I can’t see any ads. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/11 "2011-02-28T20:55:57Z")
I always see ‘one _simple_ trick.’ Discovered by a local mom of course. Sometimes she lost weight/whitened her teeth/made $60k from home by following One Simple Rule. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/12 "2011-02-28T21:15:39Z")
Those local moms sure have a lot of time on their hands if they’re all sitting around doing weird tricks… ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/13 "2011-02-28T21:20:01Z")
Weird tricks is how they’re making 60k from home. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/14 "2011-03-01T10:35:08Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Yeah, I smeared acai berries across my monitor and now I can’t see any ads. 😃 Actually, that annoying belly fat may just come in handy, if it prevents you from scooting in close enough to see the monitor… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/15 "2011-03-01T13:07:20Z")
There’s a trick to getting rid of the banner ads, but They don’t want you to know. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/16 "2011-03-01T17:13:18Z")
Well, here’s one take “one werid ond trick” I Googled: [http://hubpages.com/hub/Truth-Behind-The-Obey-1-Weird-Old-Rule-Belly-Fat-Ads](http://hubpages.com/hub/Truth-Behind-The-Obey-1-Weird-Old-Rule-Belly-Fat-Ads) Despite my certainty that I’d get almost every page on the Internet with that search, _this thread_ appeared on the very first page of results. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/17 "2011-03-01T18:29:57Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > I always see ‘one _simple_ trick.’ Discovered by a local mom of course. Sometimes she lost weight/whitened her teeth/made $60k from home by following One Simple Rule. For Dating Her Teenage Daughter? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-rid-of-annoying-banner-ads-with-this-one-weird-old-trick/572950/18 "2011-03-01T18:42:25Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > Well, here’s one take “one werid ond trick”. ugh --supposed to be “weird old trick,” of course. I was tricked!