I want to take out the 72-year-old Avacor guy.

[mwb970]

Of the many, many inane commercials on progressive radio, I am the sickest of the Avacor one. How many more times can I hear this?

"Well, I'm 72 years old and I can honestly say I have a fuller, healthier head of hair now than I did when I was 18 years old. Avacor really works."

Let's see, call it twice a day for over a year...that's at least 700 times I've heard this guy say these words. (Those were the times I couldn't get to the radio to turn it off in time.) Enough!

The funny thing is, Avacor apparently doesn't work all that well:
http://www.wellnessletter.com/html/ds/dsAvacor.php

[RebelOne]

1. It sure doesn't work that well. Read these complaints.

http://www.infomercialscams.com/scams/avacor

[Bucky]

8. HA! Those are GREAT complaints! Read this one...

Reed writes:
Avacor is a hair regrowth product that just simply doesn't work. The company gets around this problem by putting some Menoxadil (sp?) (which has been shown to regrow hair in some people) into their product but it costs around $100 a month. Plain ole Menoxadil (the only truly active ingedient) costs around $11.95 a month. So buyer beware. Avacor is being marketed during the Dr. Laura and Rush Limbaugh shows, so I guess that gives some people the false belief that Avacor can be trusted.

:rofl:

[Bucky]

2. From your subject line, I thought you meant "take him out" like on a date

Kind of like how GHWB always wanted to "take out Saddam", but Rummy kept getting there with flowers first.

[Ganja Ninja]

3. For me it's the VW commercials.

The ones where the guy poses as a new owner of a used VW and calls the old owner or vice versa. They are driving me nuts.

[trotsky]

10. Or the ones that show a real-looking accident.

Ack, I just HAVE to change the channel when one comes on.

[KharmaTrain]

4. I'm Tired Of The Bad Bladders And The 4 Hour Stiffie...

It's bad enough television has to bombard us with all the warts of the human condition and try to package them with cute advertising, but I can't watch a sporting event without being bombarded with all these drugs for things that I really don't need paraded every 15 minutes. It was bad enough having to go through the "heartbreak of psoriasis" and all those Hair Club ads, I should have expected the downhill slide to continue.

I laugh at ost of these commercials...and I have long established my own slogans for Viagra..."when you absolutely, positively have to screw her". Also, now if an erection lasts more than 4 hours, my remedy is to find another partner...and somehow, 4 hour stiffies when I was 18 wasn't uncommon.

But then those big pharmas need something to shovel back money to the corporate media who have done such a fine job taking care of their "E.D." problem.

:rofl:

[JNelson6563]

5. Don't meaningless crap posts

go in the lounge? :shrug:

[mwb970]

9. You're probably right.

Although I wanted to suggest a larger point, that progressive radio's effectiveness is undermined by the low quality and high quantity of commercials they run (a pet peeve of mine).

They also seem to use 50-watt ham radio transmitters or something - I can't pick up the Columbus AAR station in some parts of town. Meanwhile, the other ClearChannel station in Columbus (right-wing WTVN 610) can be easily heard in Nepal.

[maine_raptor]

6. Mine is that stupid Sally Fields Ad

The one were she says that a friend of hers has to set aside "some time each week" to take a pill and therefore the reason to take the pill she's pushing will save you time.

That has to be the single most stupid reason to take a pill. You save, what, 15 seconds a month?

Jeesh, give me a break.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. Actually, a friend of mine takes a pill for a bone condition and has to

sit still in a specific position for a half hour or so. That's probably the time saving they're referring to.

[Bucky]

7. I want to take a machete to that Snuggles fabric softener teddy bear

Too cute for words, but not to cute for a hand grenade. Do I win?

[CTyankee]

11. The sad mother who drank/passed out while her baby napped

and now since finding AA she can be a wife to her husband and a mother to her baby and she knows who she is. Does anybody else find this ad strange? Plus, she sounds like a poster girl for grade A depression. The idea of this woman having a baby to take care of all the time is scary, even if she stopped drinking.

[catnhatnh]

12. Head On.....

...why not a hemorrhoid creme called "Stick It Up Your" ???