SLiM: Truth in Advertising

There had been a craze in camp of these little brown balls that you can throw down to make an “exploding spark!” supposedly. What it actually does is make a small pop, with no (visible) spark.

The only use of these small balls is to annoy people, as far as this blogger knows. It also happens to be that these balls are quite a price for what they are. Unless you want to pay 15¢ to annoy people for about 0.0005 seconds, I really don’t think these balls are worth it.

The exception would be if you really are dying to bother someone.

The thing is, when you buy your first package of these balls, you assume there will be an “exploding spark!” like it says on the package.

If only these advertising people would be a little more truthful, humanity would be less annoyed on the whole. Also, if these advertising people began to tell the truth, maybe some more (smart) people would buy their product. Let me explain. I once saw this commercial where a company is trying to market liquid called Orange Glow. A dude walks onto the screen and says, “Do you ever want to get rid of grease or mud, but you aren’t able to?” He takes out a bottle of stuff which works very well in our house and points to a cabinet with a lot of grease on it and says “These cleaners can’t cut the grease very well.” He puts about one billionth of an ounce of the stuff on his hand, and rubs the cabinet very lightly for one second and says “See?” even though some of the grease has actually been rubbed off. “But Orange Glow,” he says, picking up a bottle of it and a towel, “is different.” He sprays the towel for 10 seconds straight and rubs it on the cabinet. “See?” he says, rubbing the cabinet madly for 15 seconds or so. “It cuts the grease!” The thing is, we tried it out once. It doesn’t even work as well as it shows on the commercial. We went back to using “these cleaners.”

These advertising people are just another group of people that make our lives crazy.