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On 8/2/13 7:17 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:20:34 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 8/2/13 5:08 PM, wrote:

I dunno. I remember when cigarettes were being aggressively marketed on
TV. I wasn't convinced I needed to smoke them. Same with booze. Or meals
from McDonalds. Or sugary soda pop.

Maybe being in the business jaded you to the ads but if they didn't
work, ad agencies would not be able to sell them and it would not be
12-14 minutes of every hour on TV.

It is also why ads cost a couple billion dollars an election cycle
these days. Somebody must believe ads work.


In Detroit, I wrote ads and news release stuff for a reference book
publisher, Motown Records, financial PR, and then in DC, I wrote ads for
Porsche of America, Florists Marketing Council, a couple of unions,
trade associations and ads and PR for Ringling Brothers. No cigs, booze,
crappyburgers or sodapop. Even handled a couple of local car dealers and
a department store. Most of the ads were aimed at building traffic,
e.g., getting customers to the dealer's showroom. After that, it was up
to the salesman or saleswoman. Had a lot of fun doing Mercedes and Fiat
radio commercials for a local dealer. Back then the car dealers were
individually or family owned, much better than dealing with "the suits."

Did you believe your ads were going to coax someone into buying your
product who might not have if they didn't see the ad?
That was the point.


That was your point. Mine was that we didn't sell harmful crap such as
cigs, boozes, unhealthy food.

Cars can be quite harmful.... Circuses routinely abuse animals.

On 8/2/13 10:04 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:50:13 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 8/2/13 7:17 PM, wrote:


Did you believe your ads were going to coax someone into buying your
product who might not have if they didn't see the ad?
That was the point.


That was your point. Mine was that we didn't sell harmful crap such as
cigs, boozes, unhealthy food.

Nobody said you personally. Perhaps you didn't sell those products
because you had a moral problem or maybe they just never made you the
right offer.
It still does not change my original statement that advertising and
lawyers are not doing us any good. They simply raise the price of
everything.


For common items, advertising increases the volume sold and in the good
old days, that meant lower prices. These are the days of the perpetual
corporate rip-off, so who really knows.

The several agencies I worked for had some standards against what the
owners believed were harmful products, although one of them was
interested in representing a winery.

I still remember the "research" I did for a car dealer who didn't want
to pay for research on which local radio stations to include in the ad
buys. I got him to have his service writers turn on the car radios of
customers bringing their cars in and note the stations to which the
devices were tuned. That was a fun account, a successful dealership that
had two locations and handled Mercedes and...gulp...FIAT.

On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:17:31 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:20:34 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 8/2/13 5:08 PM, wrote:

I dunno. I remember when cigarettes were being aggressively marketed on
TV. I wasn't convinced I needed to smoke them. Same with booze. Or meals
from McDonalds. Or sugary soda pop.

Maybe being in the business jaded you to the ads but if they didn't
work, ad agencies would not be able to sell them and it would not be
12-14 minutes of every hour on TV.

It is also why ads cost a couple billion dollars an election cycle
these days. Somebody must believe ads work.


In Detroit, I wrote ads and news release stuff for a reference book
publisher, Motown Records, financial PR, and then in DC, I wrote ads for
Porsche of America, Florists Marketing Council, a couple of unions,
trade associations and ads and PR for Ringling Brothers. No cigs, booze,
crappyburgers or sodapop. Even handled a couple of local car dealers and
a department store. Most of the ads were aimed at building traffic,
e.g., getting customers to the dealer's showroom. After that, it was up
to the salesman or saleswoman. Had a lot of fun doing Mercedes and Fiat
radio commercials for a local dealer. Back then the car dealers were
individually or family owned, much better than dealing with "the suits."

Did you believe your ads were going to coax someone into buying your
product who might not have if they didn't see the ad?
That was the point.

Most of the problem with obesity has to do with income and the cost of
real food and the rampant availability of fast food in cities.

It's cheap to stuff your face with fast food crap. Going to a store
to buy fresh fruit, vegetables and meat is freakin' expensive.

The lower our income, the worse our diet. You can't even feed your
family crap on minimum wage, which is becoming the case for more and
more Americans. Average age of fast food workers at McDonalds is 29.

Welcome to the new America, where money is held by the rich and the
rest of the country can go **** themselves.

On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:54:17 -0700, jps wrote:

On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:17:31 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:20:34 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 8/2/13 5:08 PM, wrote:

I dunno. I remember when cigarettes were being aggressively marketed on
TV. I wasn't convinced I needed to smoke them. Same with booze. Or meals
from McDonalds. Or sugary soda pop.

Maybe being in the business jaded you to the ads but if they didn't
work, ad agencies would not be able to sell them and it would not be
12-14 minutes of every hour on TV.

It is also why ads cost a couple billion dollars an election cycle
these days. Somebody must believe ads work.


In Detroit, I wrote ads and news release stuff for a reference book
publisher, Motown Records, financial PR, and then in DC, I wrote ads for
Porsche of America, Florists Marketing Council, a couple of unions,
trade associations and ads and PR for Ringling Brothers. No cigs, booze,
crappyburgers or sodapop. Even handled a couple of local car dealers and
a department store. Most of the ads were aimed at building traffic,
e.g., getting customers to the dealer's showroom. After that, it was up
to the salesman or saleswoman. Had a lot of fun doing Mercedes and Fiat
radio commercials for a local dealer. Back then the car dealers were
individually or family owned, much better than dealing with "the suits."

Did you believe your ads were going to coax someone into buying your
product who might not have if they didn't see the ad?
That was the point.

Most of the problem with obesity has to do with income and the cost of
real food and the rampant availability of fast food in cities.

It's cheap to stuff your face with fast food crap. Going to a store
to buy fresh fruit, vegetables and meat is freakin' expensive.

The lower our income, the worse our diet. You can't even feed your
family crap on minimum wage, which is becoming the case for more and
more Americans. Average age of fast food workers at McDonalds is 29.

Welcome to the new America, where money is held by the rich and the
rest of the country can go **** themselves.

Bull****. We went to the Great American Buffet last night. The place was packed and it seemed as
though most of the folks there were obese - some extremely so. When I looked at their plates, I
didn't see fish, vegetables, salad, or other low calorie foods. What I saw was heaps of mashed
potatoes, mac and cheese, fried chicken, and fried breading with a miniature shrimp therein. Their
choices of food had nothing to do with income. We all paid the same $10 (seniors) or $12 a head.

You liberals continue to blame obesity on the conservatives - who rip off the obese folks and make
them eat Big Macs and mashed potatoes.

More bull**** on bull****.

And, the additional cost of corn, due to the ethanol demand of rich liberals, is raising *all* food
prices - even mashed 'taters and fried chicken!

John (Gun Nut) H.
--

Hope you're having a great day!

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On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:17:31 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 17:20:34 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 8/2/13 5:08 PM, wrote:

I dunno. I remember when cigarettes were being aggressively marketed on
TV. I wasn't convinced I needed to smoke them. Same with booze. Or meals
from McDonalds. Or sugary soda pop.

Maybe being in the business jaded you to the ads but if they didn't
work, ad agencies would not be able to sell them and it would not be
12-14 minutes of every hour on TV.

It is also why ads cost a couple billion dollars an election cycle
these days. Somebody must believe ads work.


In Detroit, I wrote ads and news release stuff for a reference book
publisher, Motown Records, financial PR, and then in DC, I wrote ads for
Porsche of America, Florists Marketing Council, a couple of unions,
trade associations and ads and PR for Ringling Brothers. No cigs, booze,
crappyburgers or sodapop. Even handled a couple of local car dealers and
a department store. Most of the ads were aimed at building traffic,
e.g., getting customers to the dealer's showroom. After that, it was up
to the salesman or saleswoman. Had a lot of fun doing Mercedes and Fiat
radio commercials for a local dealer. Back then the car dealers were
individually or family owned, much better than dealing with "the suits."

Did you believe your ads were going to coax someone into buying your
product who might not have if they didn't see the ad?
That was the point.

Most of the problem with obesity has to do with income and the cost of
real food and the rampant availability of fast food in cities.

Most of the problem with obesity is due to lazy people. It takes effort to eat right but, it
is easy to just stop by McDonalds and get a couple of Big Macs.

It's cheap to stuff your face with fast food crap. Going to a store
to buy fresh fruit, vegetables and meat is freakin' expensive.

Take your family of four to McDonalds for three meals a day and record how much you spend ono
food. You will find out quickly that you are spending more money at the McDonalds than you
would by going to the grocery store.


The lower our income, the worse our diet. You can't even feed your
family crap on minimum wage, which is becoming the case for more and
more Americans. Average age of fast food workers at McDonalds is 29.

This has been true throughout the ages. It is not going to change by closing down McDonalds.

Welcome to the new America, where money is held by the rich and the
rest of the country can go **** themselves.

Shouldn't you be saying welcome back to the dark ages?

On 8/2/2013 10:11 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:54:17 -0700, jps wrote:

Most of the problem with obesity has to do with income and the cost of
real food and the rampant availability of fast food in cities.

It's cheap to stuff your face with fast food crap. Going to a store
to buy fresh fruit, vegetables and meat is freakin' expensive.

The lower our income, the worse our diet. You can't even feed your
family crap on minimum wage, which is becoming the case for more and
more Americans. Average age of fast food workers at McDonalds is 29.

Welcome to the new America, where money is held by the rich and the
rest of the country can go **** themselves.

It is obvious you don't eat a lot of fast food.

For the price of McDonalds for 4 ($20), I can buy a whole chicken ($6)
a few potatoes ($2) and a package of fresh broccoli ($2) and still
have $10 left over.
I won't even try to explain how much rice and beans that will buy.

People go to fast food joints because they are lazy.


Exactly, but they have special "vegetable vouchers" coming out now above
and beyond the traditional food stamps. It's really just another way to
move cash, but we won't tell anyone

On Friday, August 2, 2013 9:11:51 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:54:17 -0700, jps wrote:



Most of the problem with obesity has to do with income and the cost of

real food and the rampant availability of fast food in cities.



It's cheap to stuff your face with fast food crap. Going to a store

to buy fresh fruit, vegetables and meat is freakin' expensive.



The lower our income, the worse our diet. You can't even feed your

family crap on minimum wage, which is becoming the case for more and

more Americans. Average age of fast food workers at McDonalds is 29.



Welcome to the new America, where money is held by the rich and the

rest of the country can go **** themselves.



It is obvious you don't eat a lot of fast food.



For the price of McDonalds for 4 ($20), I can buy a whole chicken ($6)

a few potatoes ($2) and a package of fresh broccoli ($2) and still

have $10 left over.

I won't even try to explain how much rice and beans that will buy.



People go to fast food joints because they are lazy.

I was behind a gal in the groce3ry check-out and she had a cart load of chips, soda, candy,various other snacks, a gallon of milk and some sugar laced cereal, but nothing else substantial.

The bill was about 60+ bucks. She paid for it with a WIC card....

This shows that low-income doesn't 'force' people to eat unhealthy stuff....
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