QUOTE UNQUOTE: On Canned Milk, Decadence and Other Matters

Advertising people are nothing if not quotable, so it’s no surprise that several agency heavyweights are among those cited in The Executive’s Book of Quotations, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. It’s also no surprise that David Ogilvy has the lion’s share of ad-oriented citations, including a jingle he attributes to an anonymous dairy farmer: ‘Carnation milk is the best in the land;/ Here I sit with my can in my hand – /No tits to pull, no hay to pitch,/ You just punch a hole in the son-of-a-bitch.’