Archive for Advertising
Pet peeve: The phrase up to [some number] or more. I see this now and then in ads, in lines like (made-up example) “The battery lasts up to 8 hours or more!” If you take that phrase literally, it’s meaningless—the battery might last less than 8 hours, or it might last more, who knows? Vaguely […]
Just saw an ad for a laser-engraving product called LaserPecker. I feel like that might not be the best possible product name. Then again, they got me to post about it, so maybe it’s a good choice after all.
I saw a billboard advertising the new Droid cell phone yesterday. It had a hard-edged and manly sort of high-tech industrial look to it, and it said: A BARE-KNUCKLED BUCKET...