Judy Gruen writes a column for a give-away magazine called Jewish Life. In the February 2009 issue she wrote an article called YOUR RESULTS MAY VARY.
Judy Gruen's latest book is "The Women's Daily Irony Supplement." Clever title!
to quote the article...
"Most of us have been severely chastened by bad economic news, along with an epidemic of business chicanery. Now we are left to wonder: How can we protect ourselves from bunco artists, flimflammers, bamboozlers, rouges and the otherwise slippery, shifty, and shameless? ... One relatively easy way to protect ourselves is to pay closer attention to advertisements, because darned if those ads are not always cleverly sneaking in critical information about their products and services right under our noses.... I became suspicious, however, when it finally dawned on me that the woman pictured in the ad looked young enough to be far more likely candidate for acne cream rather than wrinkle filler. Sure enough, when I whipped out my handy Hubble telescope, I was just able to make out the words: "Model pictured is not an actual customer. In fact, she's not even old enough to buy liqueur legally in most states."
