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{{quote|''"Three rabbits are on a log. One of them goes home and hangs himself. *[[Beat]]* Buy a bike!"'' |
{{quote|''"Three rabbits are on a log. One of them goes home and hangs himself. *[[Beat]]* Buy a bike!"'' |
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|'''[[Lewis Black]]'''}} |
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When it comes to a [[Mind Screw]], the justification of [[True Art]] comes to mind. |
When it comes to a [[Mind Screw]], the justification of [[True Art]] comes to mind. |
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Compare [[Gainax Ending]], [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]], [[What Were They Selling Again?]]. Contrast [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], or at least the [[Trope Namer|trope-naming]] Ronseal adverts. |
Compare [[Gainax Ending]], [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]], [[What Were They Selling Again?]]. Contrast [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], or at least the [[Trope Namer|trope-naming]] Ronseal adverts. |
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== Literature == |
== Literature == |
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* Interestingly, [[Crazy Awesome|Hugo Ball]]'s 1916 ''Dada Manifesto'' inverts the principle, using what sounds like a conventional advertising slogan for an actual brand of soap ("Hobby horse", or "Dada" in French) in a text that is [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|meant to be utterly nonsensical]]: |
* Interestingly, [[Crazy Awesome|Hugo Ball]]'s 1916 ''Dada Manifesto'' inverts the principle, using what sounds like a conventional advertising slogan for an actual brand of soap ("Hobby horse", or "Dada" in French) in a text that is [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|meant to be utterly nonsensical]]: |
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== [[Real Life]] == |
== [[Real Life]] == |
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* [[Apple]] ran [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 one of the most infamous Dada ads of all time] in 1984, featuring a rather heavy-handed Orwellian caricature of their competitors (or something). |
* [[Apple]] ran [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 one of the most infamous Dada ads of all time] in 1984, featuring a rather heavy-handed Orwellian caricature of their competitors (or something). |
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** It seems the ad was made just for the pun at the end. "1984 won't be like ''[[ |
** It seems the ad was made just for the pun at the end. "1984 won't be like ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four (Literature)|Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''". |
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*** Not at all. While the ad was Dada, the message wasn't: you don't have to be a government to own a computer. |
*** Not at all. While the ad was Dada, the message wasn't: you don't have to be a government to own a computer. |
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* [[Perfume Commercial|Perfume commercials]] have made this practically a cliche. It probably kicked off with a string of commercials in the late Eighties and early Nineties for the perfume Obsession. This was even lampshaded in ''[[The Golden Girls]].'' |
* [[Perfume Commercial|Perfume commercials]] have made this practically a cliche. It probably kicked off with a string of commercials in the late Eighties and early Nineties for the perfume Obsession. This was even lampshaded in ''[[The Golden Girls]].'' |
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