I was flipping through a copy of this DIY magazine I get and found a very amusing page toward the back, among the ads. There are always several full page ads for male enhancement products, secrets of “better sex” and instructional tools for pleasuring women. Now, I don’t usually pay any attention to these ads – ahem, the ladies know why – but one of the lesser pages got my attention.

It was a page with several ads, all 1/6 page or less in size. It was not so much any particular ad that got me going, it was the combination of ads that seemed, well, so fortuitous as to be exceedingly humorous. (Pretty Shakespearean there, huh?)

Here is a run down of the ads on this particular page:

 – Two male sexual enhancement ads, one that specifically promised a “minimum of 4 to 5 additional inches.”
 – One ad selling plans to make your own pull-down Murphy-style bed.
 – One ad for an energy supplement.
 – One ad for a discount condom assortment to try out a variety of styles and options.
 – One ad for discount cigarettes – “roll your own and save!”

Is it just me or is this particular ad really targeting a specific consumer? One who needs a convenient bed that can be yanked out of the wall at any moment because he’s got a lot of energy, a well-prepped tool, safety measures, and smokes for relaxing afterwards.

It seems the only thing missing was an ad to buy weight loss pills, but there were a few of those on the next page. And anyway, who needs weight loss pills after all that good wholesome cardiovascular exercise?

Building the bed, of course. That’s what I mean. There’s a lot of exercise required to build a pull-down bed.