Category: Ironic

Don’t Be Like Larry, Don’t Miss Out On FTX Fraud

FTX’s ad [on Super Bowl LVI (2022)] featured comedian and actor Larry David (in his first appearance in a commercial) in period costume dismissing various technological and societal achievements in history, including the wheel, American independence, Edison’s incandescent light bulb, the Walkman, and finally, cryptocurrency. The ad was directed by Jeff Schaffer, whom David had worked with in the past on Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Ironically, the company would go bankrupt later that year.

FTX Trading Ltd., commonly known as FTX (short for “Futures Exchange”), is a bankrupt company that formerly operated a cryptocurrency exchange and crypto hedge fund. The exchange was founded in 2019 and, at its peak in July 2021, had over one million users and was the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume.

A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. On 11 November 2022, FTX Trading Ltd., a cryptocurrency exchange, which also operated a crypto hedge fund, and had been valued at $18 billion, filed for bankruptcy.

In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

This isn’t Heaven, Got Milk?

Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that originated in the United States and features chocolate chips (small morsels of sweetened chocolate) as its distinguishing ingredient.

The flip or clamshell is a form factor of a smartphone or other device which is in two or more sections that fold via a hinge.

A semi-trailer truck (more commonly semi truck or simply “semi”) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight.

Got Milk? (stylized as got milk?) is an American advertising campaign encouraging the consumption of milk, which was created by the advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners for the California Milk Processor Board in 1993, and was later licensed for use by milk processors and dairy farmers.

The [California Milk Processor Board] was created in 1993 to counter falling sales of milk as Americans switched to soft drinks, health drinks, and other beverages.

Budweiser is Brewed The Hard Way

[Budweiser] is made with up to 30% rice in addition to hops and barley malt.

Hipsters are typically described as affluent or middle class young Bohemians who reside in gentrifying neighborhoods.

“Craft brewing” is a more encompassing term for developments in the industry succeeding the microbrewing movement of the later 20th century. The definition is not entirely consistent, but it typically applies to relatively small, independently-owned commercial breweries that employ traditional brewing methods and emphasize flavor and quality.

McVitie’s Are English But They’re Good

A digestive biscuit (originally known as a Wheaten), sometimes referred to as a sweet-meal biscuit, is a semi-sweet biscuit originated in the United Kingdom and popular worldwide.

It rains [in England] on fewer days in every month throughout the year than the rest of the UK, and rainfall totals are less in every month, with the driest month, May.


McVitie’s is a British snack food brand owned by United Biscuits. The name derives from the original Scottish biscuit maker, McVitie & Price, Ltd., established in 1830 on Rose Street in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The Fred & Farid Group is a French advertising agency operating in Paris and Shanghai, founded by Frédéric Raillard and Farid Mokart.

At Men’s Wearhouse, Profit Meets Purpose

Men’s Wearhouse is a men’s dress apparel retailer in the United States. The company was founded by George Zimmer in 1973. The chain runs television and radio commercials featuring Zimmer, and the oft-repeated slogan, “You’re going to like the way you look; I guarantee it.” On June 19, 2013, the company dismissed founder and Executive Chairman George Zimmer for undisclosed reasons.[10] The company later stated that Zimmer was dismissed due to “difficulty accepting the fact that Men’s Wearhouse is a public company with an independent board of directors and that he has not been the chief executive officer for two years. He advocated for significant changes that would enable him to regain control.”

George Zimmer (born November 21, 1948) is an American entrepreneur, the founder and former Executive Chairman of the Men’s Wearhouse, a men’s clothing retailer that has more than 1,200 stores across the U.S. and Canada under the brands Moores, Men’s Wearhouse and K&G Superstores. Zimmer’s style of corporate management (for example, the company’s June 2004 nomination of spiritual guru Deepak Chopra to its board) is peculiar in the view of some, while others perceive his style as cutting-edge.

Deepak Chopra (born October 22, 1947) is a Hindu Indian-American physician, a holistic health/New Age guru, and alternative medicine practitioner.

Change may refer to the process of becoming different.

Dress clothes are clothing that is less formal than formal wear but more formal than casual wear. For men, this includes items like a necktie, a dress shirt, trousers, dress socks, dress shoes, and underwear.

You Know When You’ve Been Tango’d

Tango is a carbonated soft drink sold primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland, first launched by Corona in 1950. The first “ironic” campaign introduced the now-common catchphrase “You know when you’ve been Tango’d”, produced by advertising agency HHCL. The campaign began in 1991 with an ad featuring a man being slapped around the face by a portly man painted orange (Peter Geeves) immediately after drinking Tango. It received widespread condemnation after a craze for “Tangoing” people swept the nation’s playgrounds, and there were reports of children receiving serious injuries or even being deafened by being slapped on the ears.

HHCL (formally Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury and Partners) was a London based advertising agency prominent in the 1990s. HHCL’s most celebrated piece of work was a commercial for Tango in 1991 (co-written by Trevor Robinson OBE). The ad took soft drinks advertising away from US lifestyle and planted it firmly on the streets of Britain. When a young man drinks some Tango, a large orange man runs up to him and slaps him on the face – the ‘hit of real oranges’ – while two astounded commentators report on the action. The commercial was voted the third best commercial of all time by Channel 4 in the UK. After children began copying the orange man’s slap, the commercial was banned and reshot with the orange man planting a kiss on the Tango drinker.