# What has advertising convinced you to buy, or not to buy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-advertising-convinced-you-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/532971 "2010-03-19T02:22:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [March 23, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-advertising-convinced-you-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/532971/41 "2010-03-23T12:46:40Z")
All the [Alexander Keith’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Keith's_Brewery) ads. Not just the “Crazy Scotsman” ads, or the “popped collar”, but basically I hate the slogan “Those who like it, like it a lot”. I don’t drink it, won’t drink it, and a few friends knew that if I am buying, you had better not order Keith’s. (I mean a pitcher of draft -I may have bought a bottle or two if I am buying a round for a bunch of people.) ---
**Author:** ![heavyarms553](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@heavyarms553](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heavyarms553)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-advertising-convinced-you-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/532971/42 "2010-03-23T13:59:20Z")
> [@](#): > > If you had a brownie pan of infinite size, they’d all be centers. And you’d have an infinite number of brownies. Mmmmm. Omg that just got me thinking. I believe I have found a commercially viable purpose in colonizing the moon. We build, and stay with me here, a spherical baking pan that uniformly covers the entire surface of the moon. After that is done, we pour brownie dough or batter or w/e onto it and it will be held in place by gravity. We place the moon in a giant oven and voila, a batch of brownies WITH NO EDGES! I deserve a nobel prize. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-advertising-convinced-you-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/532971/43 "2010-03-23T16:05:21Z")
My husband is convinced that advertising is made for me. I’m somewhat suggestible. I’ll see a Whopper commercial and, before long, I want a Whopper. Usually I brush it off, but sometimes, I just can’t. I own (or have owned until I used it up) a Snuggy (and like it!), a Magic Bullet blender, a Big City Slider Station, Oxyclean, Magic Putty… all of those I used and enjoyed. (Well, maybe I didn’t enjoy the Magic Putty per se, but it did work well.) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-advertising-convinced-you-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/532971/44 "2010-03-23T16:37:07Z")
All centres brownies? What are you people, weird? Crusty, crunchy, delicious brownie edges - mmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-advertising-convinced-you-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/532971/45 "2010-03-23T17:55:48Z")
Corona. I already like the beer, but their ads - featuring a sublimely relaxed oceanside setting - make me feel even better about drinking it. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-advertising-convinced-you-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/532971/46 "2010-03-23T18:16:01Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > I’d have hit “if you don’t like the way I do it, you can do it yourself” and “if you have time to stand there and watch me, you have time to help” territory years ago, personally. 😛 But what if I am actually doing it wrong, and he’s right? ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-advertising-convinced-you-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/532971/47 "2010-03-23T18:40:16Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > I own (or have owned until I used it up) a Snuggy (and like it!), a Magic Bullet blender, a Big City Slider Station, Oxyclean, Magic Putty… all of those I used and enjoyed. (Well, maybe I didn’t enjoy the Magic Putty per se, but it did work well.) How do you use up a Snuggy? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-advertising-convinced-you-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/532971/48 "2010-03-23T19:37:56Z")
The **Buffalo Wild Wings** commercial that has been on during just about every time-out during the NCAA basketball tournament - the one where the bartender has the secret control panel to send the basketball game into overtime - has convinced me that I will never ever ever step foot into one of their restaurants. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-advertising-convinced-you-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/532971/49 "2010-03-23T20:12:54Z")
I saw the Taco Bell shrimp taco and knew I had to have one. I thought it was the most delicious thing I ever bought at a drive-through window, and I’m going to buy as many as I possibly can before it inevitably disappears forever. (Replaced by something with hamburg, yellow cheese, and chili powder, no doubt.) ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-advertising-convinced-you-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/532971/50 "2010-03-23T20:13:05Z")
> [@Meyer6](#): > > How do you use up a Snuggy? The “used or used up” thing is in relation to the whole list. Especially pertaining to the Magic Putty. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-advertising-convinced-you-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/532971/51 "2010-03-23T20:41:08Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > But what if I am actually doing it wrong, and he’s right? Then \*he \*can do it. Problem solved! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-advertising-convinced-you-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/532971.md?page=2)