Advertising

Definition

(Noun; Business) Advertising: The art of convincing people to buy things they don't need with money they don't have.

Advertising: An alien spaceship hovering over a city street while giant billboards display ads for intergalactic travel packages in every language imaginable...

Usage

I'm not sure what the ad said but it must've been persuasive because now I own a llama!

Insight

What do you call an advertisement that's always late? A procrasti-commercial!

Origin

Advertising was invented by ancient cavemen who wanted to convince their neighbors to trade them shiny rocks for woolly mammoth meat and firewood - without having to leave their caves!

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