Sit 'n Sleep is a mattress retailer in Southern California, with the typical annoying ads that you’d expect. Their tagline is “Sit 'n Sleep will match anyone’s advertised price or your mattress is FREEEEEEEEEE!!!”
OK, how many free mattresses have you given away since you’ve been in business? Have you ever actually told someone “No, we can’t sell it to you for that price, so we’ll just lower it down to nothing”? Please.
In the early 60s * MAD * ran an article with hypothetical blurbs on product labels like:
OLD, MISERABLE PRY- OFF CAP!
SOME BEARDS ARE LIGHT! SOME BEARDS ARE HEAVY! So some people will cut themselves…and some won’t…
Not an advertisement per se, but some years ago I was walking through Bradley Airport in Hartford near the end of October. One gate desk was festooned with Halloween decorations, the most prominent of which was a garland that read “Be Afraid!” Great thing to tell your passengers as they are about to hurtle through the skies in a pressurized steel tube 35,000 feet above the earth.