Saturday, July 6, 2019

Person rinses with mouthwash then spits it back and puts bottle back on the shelf.

K-Mart apparently.

Male, apparently.

Giving LGBT a bad name.



Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics
Listerine, for instance, was invented in the nineteenth century as powerful surgical antiseptic. It was later sold, in distilled form, as both a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea. But it wasn't a runaway success until the 1920s, when it was pitched as a solution for "chronic halitosis" — a then obscure medical term for bad breath. Listerine's new ads featured forlorn young women and men, eager for marriage but turned off by their mate's rotten breath. "Can I be happy with him in spite of that?" one maiden asked herself. Until that time, bad breath was not conventionally considered such a catastrophe. But Listerine changed that. As the advertising scholar James B. Twitchell writes, "Listerine did not make mouthwash as much as it made halitosis." In just seven years, the company's revenues rose from $115,000 to more than $8 million.

3 comments:

edutcher said...

This is becoming a thing, I presume by the Lefties.

The idiot who licked the ice cream could get 20 years (what if they had a disease?). I can only think these morons assume they're somehow immune from the law.

AllenS said...

Come down hard on these people, NOW! If not, you'll see copycat after copycat.

Rabel said...

Becoming a thing maybe, but this one is a fake. No idea what the thinking behind it is.

Black bottle top.