Wednesday 9 February 2011

Lynx: late to the game

People still seem to be a little shocked by nasty Lynx deodorant adverts ironically promising lots of sex of you spray their foul potion over your spotty adolescent crevices.

Corporations aren't new at this - have a look at this Swinging Sixties Old Spice ad:

11 comments:

Zoot Horn said...

Don't worry. I'm a doctor.

Ewarwoowar said...

Hey! What's so bad about Lynx?

The Plashing Vole said...

If you don't know, then you're doomed to bachelordom forever.

Benjamin. said...

Quite right, Vole. But then again Lynx is in every damn supermarket and half empty, half robbed shop in the Dark Place. I yearn for some Brut.

ed said...

Have you seen the 'new' Old Spice commercials? Very funny (or unsettling in that advertising has appropriated deconstruction to sell us stuff...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af1OxkFOK18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE

Ewarwoowar said...

I still don't know what's wrong with Lynx.

Sinéad said...

he was not your dad... he was the dad your dad could have been if your dad used old spice... swandive!!!!!!

Sinéad said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtF13U5t8xE

The Plashing Vole said...

All those Old Spice ads are making my head spin. Much like Ewar's Lynx.

Ewar: Lynx is wrong because it's the smell of Telford: artificial and unpleasant.

Zoot Horn said...

I've just realised that my first comment here - Don't worry. I'm a doctor - was supposed to go under the next blog entry, which was about chat-up lines. I suppose it's too late to move it now. But just think how funny it would have been if I had put it there. Under the right blog post. Instead of here. Where it is now.

The Plashing Vole said...

I was very confused by that.