Friday, October 5, 2012

It's the age of age-defying active ageing...

Active ageing... the lighter side

I remember coming across a certain poster in the pre-Internet days. I was young then, and found it funny. I did a search and --  Viola! -- here it is, now set on a decorative plate:


Active ageing... the darker side

But sometimes there is a more sinister twist to "active" ageing, as this stranger-than-fiction story unfolds:


Checking online, I found an even more detailed story about this "Internet Black Widow":

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/10/04/internet-black-widow-fifth-estate.html

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Roger not quite the dodger

The actor Roger Moore should thank his lucky stars that the women in his life weren't the Black Widow type!...


Incidentally, the headline too is amusing. You get the impression Moore was being attacked on the same occasion by his ex-wives!

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Just what is "age-defying"? 

Remember my blog entry on women letting snails crawl all over them in the name of rejuvenating their complexion? As a man, I find cosmetics ads intriguing for their choice of carefully chosen words and phrases, such as "age-defying" (and all within the ambit of most advertising codes). Examples:




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Flawless complexion in mama's time? Few words were needed then...

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