Small rant about cosmetics' ads

[Milz]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> This is wildly OT, but I just have to say how much I hate one 
current TV commercial featuring Buffy star, Sarah Michelle Gellar.  
It's for some sort of mascara and she endorses it with the line:
> 
> "It's like I have a billion lashes, all outrageously full and soft!"
> 
> She looks like a rabbit trapped in headlights at the best of times, 
but, to me, this conjures up an image of two mutant tarantulas 
nestling in her eye sockets.  Does anyone else 
think,  '100,000,000 "outrageously" full and soft eyelashes - that's 
way too much eyelash for one human head!!!'?
> 
> There's also an infomercial running on cable in which Wonderwoman 
(Linda thingy) 'interviews' Victoria Principal about - quel surprise -
 her innovative range of facial cosmetics, "The Principal Secret".  
All sorts of cod scientific phrases are bandied about and there are 
several vox pops of women wearing too much make up, raving about the 
products.  One woman reveals that her face is "luminous again" -  so 
what is this: she glows in the dark?  The way they talk about the 
products, you'd have to conclude that Victoria Principal is verily 
the Madame Curie of facial preservation.
> 
> I'm sorry, I just have this niggly thing about ridiculous science 
in advertising.  How stupid are people to fall for this?
> 
> Neil (yes, I know: I should get out more)

I realise that Sarah Michelle Gellar has a rather large fan 
following, but I don't think she makes a very convincing spokesperson 
in the tv commercials I've seen. She looks like she's being forced to 
endorse the cosmetics, imo.

I don't know if these are shown outside the US, but the Crocodile 
Hunter commercial for Federal Express is one of the funnier ones I've 
seen in a while.