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Afternoon all,
Some people see opportunities where other see only problems. Often this is a good thing. But it's a greyer area when you see global conflict not as a human tragedy on a massive scale, but as the ideal way to market beef tea.
It's difficult to believe now that advertisers saw World War One as a chance to increase sales of Bovril...
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And use anti-German feeling to sell bottled water...
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And then there’s this soap advert, which appears to be saying make sure you smell nice before you kill someone.
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"You don't like her? Why not? She got two legs, she got two arms, she's a professional. How can you not like her?" It was questions like this which made Wakefield-based entrepreneur Adeem Younis realise that - while he had nothing against arranged marriage - his parents might be a little less fussy than he was about his future wife. Instead, he set up SingleMuslim.com - not simply an online dating agency, but a place where young Muslims could find a future life partner. Why millions of Muslims are signing up for online dating | |
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In these days of email and text, it's quite possible that your only trip to the letterbox is to post a Christmas card. But consider this: Charles Dickens wrote - at the very least - 14,000 letters between 1820 and 1870. Even by Victorian standards, this was productive. So it's perhaps not surprising that he was given his own postbox. It was in the wall of his house, Gad's Hill, in Kent. Other people were allowed to use it but essentially the box was his own. Why did Charles Dickens have a personal postbox? | |
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That's it from us today. All that remains is our own hard sell - if you want to be in the know and/or occasionally distracted from what you were meant to be doing, follow us on Twitter and like us on Face |
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