In looking at my email, I saw a silly ad where some muscle-head guy with gray hair stands there staring down the camera, and the headline reads: “How Can A 55 Year Old Man Have The Body Of A 30 Year Old?” Then it goes on to inform us that it’s not the result of crash diets, it’s not due to sit-ups or crunches, and it isn’t from cardio. And then it says “As Seen on TV”. (I haven’t seen it on TV, unless it’s that lame ad with the old bass player who plays in a “rock n’ roll band” at his old age {which is actually years younger than a lot of rock bands at this point!}.) And for me, the easy answer is one of these options: a.) It’s not the body of a 30-year-old anyway, b.) Maybe he stole the body after he murdered a 30-year-old and had his head grafted onto it (like in an elder male version of The Brain that Wouldn’t Die), or c.) It’s not his body after all: it’s PhotoShop! Maybe they just pasted his head onto someone else’s body, like we see so often in joke stuff.
Maybe this Internet ad is honest and trustworthy, and maybe it’s not. But most are not, as far as I can tell. But wouldn’t this sort of thing be a fun ad for PhotoShop? (Not that they need an ad campaign, especially for computer people!) And after starting small like this, they could have ad that say stuff like: “How Can A Healthy Man Have 3 Heads Of Differing Ages And Bat Wings?” “How Can A Man Be Half On Fire And Half Frozen?” (etc.) “It’s PhotoShop!”
(BTW: I wish I could show you this silly ad, but I don’t know how to link to an Internet ad. When you want to avoid them, they’re everywhere; but when you want to see one, you can’t find it. It’s Murphy’s Law again!)
