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grammarpolice but it amused me so much I'm posting it here too.)
I don't know whether this is true where you live, but around here, in the Sunday newspaper you get these big packets of advertising inserts with coupons and stuff. Well, last Sunday one of them was inviting you to send away for an instructional video to help improve your sex life.
I thought it was super-funny and was reading bits of it aloud to my mom. The headline at the top said something like Order this "discreet" video today! which caused much derision from me.
Mom: Well, discreet just means they send it to you in a plain brown-paper wrapper.
Me: Yeah, and the quotes around "discreet" mean that they write across the wrapper, "YOUR SEX VIDEO IS ENCLOSED!"
I was also highly amused by the part where it claimed that the video consists of "Real couples demonstrating real sexual techniques!" You know, as opposed to all those other videos out there, with their fake couples and fake sexual techniques. I *hate* it when a fake couple tries to demonstrate a fake sexual technique to me. Especially for $29.95.
(I was further amused when I got to work on Monday and one of my coworkers started talking about the very same ad. Although his angle wasn't so much making fun of the text as more of a "can you believe they're selling porn videos in the Sunday coupon insert!" thing.)
grammarpolice but it amused me so much I'm posting it here too.)I don't know whether this is true where you live, but around here, in the Sunday newspaper you get these big packets of advertising inserts with coupons and stuff. Well, last Sunday one of them was inviting you to send away for an instructional video to help improve your sex life.
I thought it was super-funny and was reading bits of it aloud to my mom. The headline at the top said something like Order this "discreet" video today! which caused much derision from me.
Mom: Well, discreet just means they send it to you in a plain brown-paper wrapper.
Me: Yeah, and the quotes around "discreet" mean that they write across the wrapper, "YOUR SEX VIDEO IS ENCLOSED!"
I was also highly amused by the part where it claimed that the video consists of "Real couples demonstrating real sexual techniques!" You know, as opposed to all those other videos out there, with their fake couples and fake sexual techniques. I *hate* it when a fake couple tries to demonstrate a fake sexual technique to me. Especially for $29.95.
(I was further amused when I got to work on Monday and one of my coworkers started talking about the very same ad. Although his angle wasn't so much making fun of the text as more of a "can you believe they're selling porn videos in the Sunday coupon insert!" thing.)
