…not to believe what advertisements tell you:
I admit that I'm a little sorry the one on the left here isn't accurate as to the health effects:
More, and crazier, similar stuff here. Some of it's creepy and dangerous.
Just in case you need to be reminded…
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I love the Dorothy Sayers mystery, “Murder Must Advertise.” Peter Wimsey is working in an advertising agency where they are creating just this type of advertising.
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I’ve read that, but it was many years ago. I’d probably enjoy it even more now.
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There’s also this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069612/ which I seem to remember is pretty good, and audio cassettes which you can get new for $111.72 or used from $2.79.
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We watched The Nine Tailors from this series a couple (three? four? five?) of years ago. I started out being pretty disappointed with it, esp the actor playing Wimsey, but liked it better as it went on.
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It’s been many years since I watched the Lord Peter Wimsey productions. I didn’t much care for Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter — is that who you’ve seen playing him?
There were a few more Wimseys made several years after the Carmichael ones with this guy, who, I think, was much better in the role. -
I’ve seen them all. I didn’t like Carmichael at all the first time I saw them, and then when Edward Petherbridge came along, I thought he was perfect. The last time I saw the early ones, though, I liked them better than I did before, although Carmichael still does not fit my image of PW at all.
Of course the Petherbridge ones are the ones with Harriet Vane. I didn’t like that actress at all at first, but I’ve seen them at least three times now and I am accustomed to her.
I wish they had done Busman’s Honeymoon.
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Somehow I missed these comments yesterday. Yes, it was the Carmichael ones I saw. I didn’t even know the other series existed. I’ll definitely have to check it out. It’s been so long since I read the books that I don’t really remember anything much about any of them. Though I never forgot the weirdly gruesome death in Nine Tailors, or the unusual meaning of “gaudy” in Gaudy Night.
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The odd thing about the linked article with all the false ads is that it decries the ads’ supposed expert claims by invoking just the same kind of expert authority.
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Yes. I thought some of their information was spurious also.
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“Common sense trumps experts” is my rule. Did anyone ever really believe that sucking the smoke of twenty, forty, or sixty cigarettes into your lungs every day could fail to do them harm?
Periodically I get confirmation of this. Eggs, having been considered a deadly toxin for a decade or two, have recently been pronounced healthy after all. I feel sorry for all the people who grimly forced down Egg Beaters on the basis of no specific symptom, but just because “they say eggs are bad for you.”
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