Truth In Advertising...

[Little Miss Risk]

I was checking out my friend's blogs on Live Journal today mostly because there's nothing good on television and also because I'm nosey. I came across on one of the community posts an old 60's ad featuring a mermaid hawking a product called Groom And Clean... You can see it here.

The product promises to groom a gentleman's hair making it grease and dandruff free, while also styling it. It has convincing product demos of how it mixes it water and how much of a dandy it will make you. I don't want to sound cynical here, but as convincing as the sales pitch is, I'm not entirely sure how much I'm willing to believe with a mermaid selling me on a product. Similarly, we see an ad for Gilette's Venus razors do the same thing; a mermaid underwater using her razor in order to breach the surface and emerge a biped, ready for bare-legged romance.

I'm pretty sure that there is some mermaid conspiracy out there at the moment that is trying to get me to take better care of my appearance. Honestly, if I lived in the deep, I'd be more worried about barnacles. Either way if a fish lady is going to sell me on a grooming product I'd like it to have faery dust (free range and organic) in it or something... for now the I'm going to leave the hotel to forage for a coffee from the only mermaid who's product I trust: The Starbucks Siren.

Christ. Next there'll be a unicorn hawking insurance...

Ciao.

Little Miss Risk