Brian: "To make a long story short" drives me nuts! Everyone who says this NEVER knows how to tell a story, let alone make it short.
My brother-in-law was one of the founders of the VML ad agency. Maybe you've heard of it? My brother-in-law was the "L".
Many years ago he lived in Kansas City, MO. His ad agency had the contract for ads for the Missouri State Lottery.
The commercial idea they had was that a winning lottery ticket was blown out of the hand of a lottery winner by that Midwestern Wind. The ticket landed in a field. A cow looked down and saw the winning ticket and stepped on the ticket hiding it from the human winner who was searching everywhere.
The punch line was, "Anyone can win the lottery."
The Lottery Board turned down the ad as it showed greed and theft. I guess milk cows can be greedy and prone to robbery. Who knew?
VML was also up for some Clio awards. Don't know if they won. VML is now a huge international ad agency.
Brian: "To make a long story short" drives me nuts! Everyone who says this NEVER knows how to tell a story, let alone make it short.
My brother-in-law was one of the founders of the VML ad agency. Maybe you've heard of it? My brother-in-law was the "L".
Many years ago he lived in Kansas City, MO. His ad agency had the contract for ads for the Missouri State Lottery.
The commercial idea they had was that a winning lottery ticket was blown out of the hand of a lottery winner by that Midwestern Wind. The ticket landed in a field. A cow looked down and saw the winning ticket and stepped on the ticket hiding it from the human winner who was searching everywhere.
The punch line was, "Anyone can win the lottery."
The Lottery Board turned down the ad as it showed greed and theft. I guess milk cows can be greedy and prone to robbery. Who knew?
VML was also up for some Clio awards. Don't know if they won. VML is now a huge international ad agency.