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“So the lady says to the talking margarine…” (Participles and dumb TV ads) Posted by on Jan 16, 2013

The title of the post is drawn from a list of “Stupid TV Commercial Cliches” that I found on a Russian humor site. I got a kick out of it because “idiotic advertising” has been a staple of English-language humor for generations, but in Russian, poking fun at consumerism is mostly a post-Soviet development. Apart…

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