Eligible for this list : spectacular failures to appreciate irony. This list is named after singer-songwriter, and prime culprit, Alanis Morissette.
Fashion statements may seem insignificant, but when they lead to the mainstreaming of violence - unintentionally or not - they matter
US conservative commentator Michelle Malkin explaining why scarf control is more important to her than gun control.
The following, sighted by a correspondent on a van in Austria, was in German but "translates perfectly into English" as:
Shneider Repairs: Your specialist for everything
Reported in New Scientist - a packet of pumpkin seeds that "... may contain traces of natural materials."
An advertisement for a yogurt spotted on a billboard recently:
Women feel they
Snack Less after eating [picture of yogurt follows]
President Bush is still using the phrase
War on Terror
with a straight face.
Many manufacturers use "no added sugar" as a selling-point, but the selling point for "New, Recharged BOOST" (a chocolate bar from Cadbury) is
Recharged with GLUCOSE
as if sugar were some kind of health food.
Now a Burger King advertisement that gained something when it crossed the Atlantic:
The Ultimate Whopper: It just tastes better.
(In British slang, one meaning of 'whopper' is a big, or blatant, lie.)
This entry, from the Early Learning Centre catalogue, suggests that an entire marketing department have lost all grip on reality:
For moments that money can't buy ®
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