You know what gets my goat? Commercials that push their products by telling us interesting sounding things that we've no idea what they are.

I mean seriously. What the hell is Retsyn™ and why would I want it in a mint?

And shampoo? Most people wouldn't know if Menaquinone was part of the vitamin b complex or not. Why not just say "We put all kinds of shit in here to make your hair shiny. Don't worry how."? How many people sit around at home and say "Gee, honey. That shampoo has cyanocobalamin which works to promote normal growth and development, helps with certain types of nerve damage, and treats pernicious anemia! Let's buy it!"

The best one? How many people reeeealy know just what the hell a Hemi is? Right now, somewhere in Wyoming, some guy is already liquored up and ordering breakfast at Denny's bragging about his new Dodge Hemi to the trucker next to him and he has no idea what the advantage of a hemispherical combustion chamber has over a flat head design, nor is he aware of the disadvantages of only having 2 valves per cylinder.

But he has a Hemi!

Update!

Found out what the hell Retsyn™ is

From: xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx (Steven B. Harris)
Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
Subject: Re: What's retsin?
Date: 7 Mar 1998 13:20:34 GMT
In <6drdm4$338_002@news.earthlink.net> anon@earthlink.net (anon)writes:
>The stuff in certs, what is it?

Retsyn. Copper gluconate.
Put in there entirely because it's green and gives little green flecks. Does nothing else. Now, don't you feel silly?

Not quite as bad as "T2-5" in Scope (aka ethanol), but getting there.