George Orwell should’ve been an advertising copywriter

When I went to Costco Sunday, I saw that they’re already selling Olestra II…I mean Alli. I first heard about it on The Colbert Report but I thought he was kidding. No, it’s real and it is comic gold for the Adam Sandler crowd now that Viagra has run its course. I love how the pharmaceutical industry (aka Big Pharma) uses the Marketing dialect of Newspeak to spin the product’s side effects (see above). Then again, one will have more success selling diet pills to people too lazy to exercise and stop eating Fuddruckers if their told they’ll have “gas with an oily discharge” instead of skid marks and wearing shorts may be unwise. Their description of the oil resembling the grease slick on a pizza definitely has curbed my appetite, thanks Big Pharma for ruining one of my favorite foods.

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