# Unintended implications **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 28, 2000, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintended-implications/27187 "2000-07-28T12:35:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintended-implications/27187/1 "2000-07-28T12:35:34Z")
I’m wondering in anybody else picks up on this: Ad for car insurance company: “… and we’re available 24 hours a day!” Unintended implication: “Because we only hire imbeciles and undergraduates so desperate for money that they’ll sit by the phone at 2:00 a.m. waiting to read a lawyer-prepared script to you when you call. You probably shouldn’t expect any of the following to exceed what can reasonably be typed into one computer screen’s worth of prepared text: courtesy, sympathy, intelligence, or insight.” or this: Ad for used car dealership: “We can make anybody a deal!” Unintended implication: “If you’re stupid enough to buy the kind of car that a dealership like us would sell, then stupid enough to sign a loan for 17% interest, then yeah, we’ll be happy to make a deal with you, because we know we’ll see maybe one payment and then we’ll get our car back to sell again!” ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintended-implications/27187/2 "2000-07-28T12:41:51Z")
“It’s new and improved!” — Previously, it was old and inferior. “All items now on sale!” — We were ripping you off before. “I’ll cut taxes, improve education, and protect the environment.” — You’re a gullible moron. ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintended-implications/27187/3 "2000-07-28T12:50:18Z")
Our “annual” 50% off sale – You can sell this stuff at half the price you normally charge? So why should I buy it any other time of year? ---
**Author:** ![Shaky\_Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@Shaky\_Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaky_Jake)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintended-implications/27187/4 "2000-07-28T13:01:34Z")
Lib: or “All items now on sale” - we had a bunch of stuff we were holding back, not selling. Slightly OT, but I hate “free gift” - gee, as opposed to the gifts I pay for? Shaky Jake ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintended-implications/27187/5 "2000-07-28T13:09:30Z")
“Prices will never be this low again!”: until sales slow down, that is. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintended-implications/27187/6 "2000-07-28T13:14:40Z")
Everyday low prices - we’re too cheap to have sales ---
**Author:** ![starfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@starfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/starfish)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintended-implications/27187/7 "2000-07-28T13:52:42Z")
Sign on telephone pole: “I lost 40 pounds in 2 weeks. Call for free sample.” Do they send you fat? ---
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintended-implications/27187/8 "2000-07-28T14:08:26Z")
My Uncle has two anus’s Unintended implication: My poo makes an interesting design in the bowl. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintended-implications/27187/9 "2000-07-28T15:03:20Z")
I always shook my head over the “Killian’s Red Instead” campaign. Used to have billboards all over Atlanta with a picture of the bottle and the legend: > [@](#): > > Next time you want something special . . . . Killian’s Red instead." Killian’s Red instead of something special, one had to assume. At least it represented a certain degree of truth in advertising.