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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (beth d. christy)
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Subject: Re: Ambiguous Advertising
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 21:03:30 EDT
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>[From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag), Message-ID: <829@mhuxt.UUCP>]
>>    What about the diet Pepsi commercials:
>> 
>>           "100% taste"
>> 
>>I can't seem to imagine something that only has 50% or 75% taste. What would
>>something that only had 50% taste would taste like? Would you want to
>>buy something that only had 50% taste? I wish it had no taste at all so
>>I wouldn't gag on the stuff when (if?) I drank it. 
>>
>>   roger

>   This reminds me of advertisements that say something like: '90% fat free'.
>Does this mean that the product is 10% fat?  Apparently.
>-- 
>Jeff Sonntag

Personally, I always wondered about the commercials which claimed that
Ivory is "99 and 44/100 per cent pure".  If it's well-mixed, it's either
pure or it's not.  Is there a little corner of the bar/bottle that has
some impurities in it, or what?

-- 

--JB                                                  "The giant is awake."