those dadaist copy-writers [was Re: Bonk]

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

vaska at geocities.com writes:
> Charles F. Albert on "bonk":
> >also used by copy 
> >writers on packaging for nutritional supplements used by pumpmonkeys,
> >as in "don't bonk, drink this & score chicks"

> This last would sound absolutely dada, not to say high surrealist, anywhere
> in England.  Maybe even Scotland, for all I know.  What say you, Andrew?

More gaga than dada, I'd say. The Scots are equally as adept as the
Englsh at swallowing such products with tongue firmly wedged in
cheek. Has anyone from the US seen those wonderful Irn Bru adverts
which so brilliantly deflated Coca Cola's beautiful people fantasies?


Andrew Dinn
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