19th June 2011, 9:59 PM
Commercials often lie right to your face these days. It's not new that they are deceptive, though their brazenness is rather recent.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)