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20th Mar 2015

Pic: The frontpage of The Sun features some incredibly clever solar eclipse based marketing

Delicious and dark

Paul Moore

Delicious and dark.

You may have noticed that a lot of jokers this morning are claiming the solar eclipse to be a sign that the world is ending.

Of course it is.

This astrological rarity has nothing to do with science or the fact that the moon is creating a shadow as it passes between the Earth and the Sun.

Logic be damned.

It may be odd to hear but there are some people that still think the earth doesn’t revolve around the sun. Cue Grandpa Simpson shouting, ‘Burn him!’.

EarthSimpsons

If these jokers are correct and we are indeed entering our final hours on earth then we would happily meet our maker via death by a gigantic chocolate biscuit.

While this probably won’t happen, it didn’t stop the people at Oreo’s from pursuing a very clever marketing campaign in The Sun.

Hey, if Ghostbusters can have a gigantic Marshmallow Man destroy the world then why not this?

 

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