A bird-brained test, a horse (non)sense ad, and more...

I had recently written a commentary article in ST's Review page (23 April, see my blog entry of that date) which I titled "Rocket science". That must have prompted CC to send me this hilarious piece...

A SUPPOSEDLY TRUE STORY FROM Rolls Royce's OWN MAGAZINE

Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)
Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens
at the windshields of airliners and military jets all travelling at maximum
velocity.

The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne
fowl to test the strength of the windshields.

American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the
Windshields of their new high speed trains.

Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the American engineers.

When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled
out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to
smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's
back-rest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin like an
arrow shot from a bow.

The horrified Yanks sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of the
experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the British
scientists for suggestions.

You're going to love this......

Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:

"Defrost the chicken."

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Can you figure this ad out? I can't!...

It's about Sunday's big horse racing event, but what have the two statements -- about a horse's teeth and your smile -- got to do with each other? Unless the ad is saying that when you smile, your teeth show like a horse's and people can then figure out your age! Bad ad.

Then there's this other puzzling ad...

This card can save us? From what? As for this next ad below...

See Richard Branson live in Singapore? See Richard Branson live? And you gotta pay 49 bucks (only!) I had previously blogged about this redundant use of "live" (within quote marks) to mean "in person". It is unnecessary, and is plain silly without the quote marks.

But I like this clever ad by Scoot...

I must have been still thinking of the ad above when I saw this movie ad below...

I thought, "How did such a movie title get through our censors? Were they just sitting on their behinds?". Then I saw the small print part (just below "Laughing in cinemas now", on the right-hand side). Ah. Poor choice of font type! But even then, "Love in the buff" is still a strange movie title.

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I'll end on another clever word-play ad...

You bet! I'll be checking out this restaurant.