[2418] in Humor
Power of an ad
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikhail Khusid)
Mon Aug 17 16:04:42 1998
From: "Mikhail Khusid" <Mikhail_Khusid@notes.teradyne.com>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:01:19 -0400
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Subject: Sex Scandal used to sell detergent
10:55 AM ET August 17, 1998
Sex scandal used to sell detergent
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) - An Israeli soap powder company is
using the U.S. presidential sex scandal to sell stain-removing
detergent.
In a television commercial, the Lever Israel company suggests that
its Biomat detergent can deal with even the most stubborn stains
caused by what has euphemistically been called DNA material.
It shows "FBI agents" entering the "home" of Monica Lewinsky to
remove, wash and return the dress at the center of an investigation
into whether President Bill Clinton had an affair with the former
White House intern and told her to lie about it.
For what the company called legal reasons, the spelling of
Lewinsky's name on a mailbox outside the house was Monika
Lavinsky.
But the two agents slip up in their apparent mission to protect the
president.
On leaving the house, they report by wrist radio the dress is now
"whiter then white" -- only to be told by a voice in their earpieces:
"White? But it's a blue dress."
The commercial, already aired on Israeli news programs,
premiered on Monday to coincide with Clinton's closed circuit
television testimony to a federal grand jury.
"We believe that this kind of humor will help us reach the
consumer," Yair Sharett, a Lever Israel representative, told
Reuters.
