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Key translation note for non-Americans: AXE body spray (which must be written in all caps, always, according to law) goes by the name LYNX body spray in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. So it's one of those jokes partially ruined by international branding. The same socio-cultural associations apply, though, so just substitute 'LYNX' for 'AXE' and the joke still stands.
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Chapter: Prince of Dappled ShadeCharacters: Daphne Hannah Tyler (aka Taylor)Tags: axe body spray diagnosis evil mojo
THE GREAT WORD ADVENTURE CONTINUES!!
This year patrons weren't limited to just nouns. They chose words of all types, and I assembled them into 'mad libs' type sentences to provide demented inspiration for ridiculous pics. So…
VOTE FOR WORDS, WORDS, WORDS!!!
As for this comic...
Key translation note for non-Americans: AXE body spray (which must be written in all caps, always, according to law) goes by the name LYNX body spray in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. So it's one of those jokes partially ruined by international branding. The same socio-cultural associations apply, though, so just substitute 'LYNX' for 'AXE' and the joke still stands.
Considering the demographic that would be the core consumer… very scary.
The demographic is … disputed. Ask the company, and they’ll say that their demographic is cool dudes aged 18-25. But through trying to market to that demographic, they actually cornered the ‘goofy dudes aged 13-17” bracket.
That sounds like a great way to catch the goofy 13-17 market.
Apparently it was not intentional. In fact, the company rues the fact that they developed this target demographic and they wish they could age up their product. Hard to undo, though.
That’s cause 13-17 year old don’t buy their own deodorant usually so a lot of potential sales get blocked by disapproving mothers.
Very.
Considering that the demographic for that stuff also tends to think that a bottle is single use, it is terrifying. The joy of riding the bus to work when a lot of high school boys are on it in the morning.
Not good. A universal curse.
This should be fun 🙂
How did I not notice the shirt last week? Creating Tuvix was a mistake and Janeway got her crew back.
That shirt has been on Daphne for weeks. But sometimes the designs just don’t appear big enough in the panels for people to read them.
Especially in lieu of bathing. The Turnpike Bubble Bath, as I heard it called in Jersey.
Heh. I like that. There’s something distinctly Jersey about AXE. And I say that having never been to Jersey.
… but the ad with angels was great!
Was it? Was it really?
Never underestimate the powers of a blind person. They can surprise you in various ways.
Exactly.
AXE is this generations’ Hai Karate aftershave, only worse.
hang on, I think I’ve got a bottle in the cupboard… HK not axe! And one thing I do not miss is the aroma of a Junior High classroom, so concur!
The kiss of death for any product is to have said product inexorably tied to anything junior high.
HA!! Hai Karate was my first thought, exactly. And Satan is clearly old enough to have a bottle or two lying around.
Accurate.
Between Satan and Hannah, somebody’s in for a shock . . . but who? Ha. Wouldn’t surprise me to learn Hannah’s the secret loooove child of Satan and . . . Our Pet Juliette? (Look her up yourselves, time to learn a little more about Canadian tv history!)
Has Satan showered lately?
I doubt it.
At least you know its not Old Spice.
“That’s something a child would buy for their dad. There’s a ship on the bottle, isn’t there.”
I rather like the idea of Hannah sublimating her inner Hannibal Lecter
I rather like the idea too.
A whiff? Most guys in the 12-24 age group bathe in the stuff. Usually as a substitute to actual bathing.
Well, even a whiff is enough.
More than, I’ll admit. Stuff smells vile.
I miss Shower to Bath. I hope CVS brings it back.
What KIND of ice cream? Vanilla? Chocolate? Strawberry? Neopolitan?
You choose. A man must choose his flavor.
I’ll ask her. If deoderant smelled of ice cream, what would like a man to wear?
Just go nuts for your nuts and get Rocky Road.
And before anyone roasts me, yes I think Gecko would laugh at this. The man made a day dream about playing hockey.
I laugh at everything. I’m a jolly old fellow.
Oh, that reference didn’t work for my post, but I’m sooooo glade someone made it. 🙂
Wait… there a whole subcontext and code about men’s deodorant?
I thought the whole idea with deodorant was use whatever’s the least assuming and only as much to stop you smelling of BO?
I might be weird though. I have some neurodivergent sensitivities and cannot stand the feeling of sticky underarms.
For some people, there’s never, ever, enough.
Perhaps the trick is to combine odor with other information:
The smell of Axe on a middle-schooler = normal desperation, treat with kindness.
That small on an adult = lost in a timewarp, must avoid.
Valid. Given that Hannah is in late high school, she’s likely looking at it through that particular lens. If you’re 13 and wearing AXE, it’s understandable. If you’re thirty and wearing AXE, it’s sad. But if you’re eighteen and wearing AXE, it’s a warning sign.
But he’s got to be what .0081071004276x infinity?
Something like that.
Satan using Axe to cover up the smell of brimstone…
Hey, who wants to smell like boiled eggs?
. . . . I would have thought Daphne would be rather more into scents than any base-line human . . . dogs can smell fear, it’s said . . . mind you, living around Puck, Phoebe, Satan, would probably desensitise sharks!
Daphne has never shown any superhuman doggy abilities, like enhanced hearing or smell. Which doesn’t make any sense, given the fact that those ears are designed for enhanced hearing and the standard mammal ‘wet nose’ she possesses is specifically evolved to maximize smell ability. So she should.
We all ignore a lot of our input. If it’s not important or pleasurable, it’s a distraction. She might be a BIT better at those things than, say, Kevin down the street. But she also has so many years of learning what she doesn’t have to pay attention to. It’s just normal to her.
Baby spit-up can smell like ice cream sometimes, not the thing I expected to remember from having them but there it is.
t doesn’t matter if it’s perfume, deodorant, cologne or lack thereof, If you can smell yourself then it’s time for a bath. Aa faint hint is nice, too much just makes me gag, that goes for men and women, stink is universal.
Stink is universal. True. But man stink always seems to me to be a little stronger.