Allan Milne Lees
1 min readAug 12, 2020

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Surely "Call me Captain Birdseye" is worthy of inclusion in any literary anthology?

In addition, ad copy can sometimes inspire others to write in turn. My favorite example of what we may term "dem-lit" comes from the late 1970s in the UK when McSlop ran a campaign featuring enormous posters of their triple-bypass-burgers featuring the phrase "You'll remember it all the way home!" underneath which one wit added, "Or all the way to the nearest public lavatory, whichever is closer."

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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