Witty, pointed retorts

Usage examples of zingers.

Red Razberry Zingers, however, was aimed at a segment of the market with a sweeter tooth: at those prepared-cereal caters who bought such cereals as Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Lucky Charms, and similar pre-sweetened breakfast foods which were somewhere in the twilight zone between cereal and candy.

Which meant, Vic assumed, that the kid was using the Zingers debacle to dump them at last.

A doctor told Vic that if a child who had just died after ingesting a big bowl of Red Razberry Zingers were the subject of an autopsy, the postmortem would reveal a digestive tract as red as a stop sign.

Instead of going to Cleveland with their necks shaved for the drop of the guillotine blade, they would show up with battle plans drawn to reverse the effects of the Zingers snafu.

Up until this morning she had treated the Red Razberry Zingers affair as a joke - a rather good one at Vic and Roger's expense.

If not for the crazy Razberry Zingers business and the rotten trip hanging over his head, he would feel that this could be a pretty good summer too.

The cereals themselves had shown a sudden dip in sales but had since made up most of the ground that had been lost after Zingers showed its treacherous red face.

Since the Zingers fiasco, two clients (including Cannes-Look jeans) had canceled their arrangements with I-E, and if Ad Worx lost the Sharp account, Rob would lose other accounts in addition to Sharp.

We can maybe pitch it to the old man as the final scene in the Red Razberry Zingers farce.

If pressed for his best guess, he would have said that probably Harrington would have to be stroked a little - he had been just miserable over the Zingers affair and what he considered it had done to his image.

The old man sees the Zingers thing as a replay of the Alamo - we're the good guys standing on the battlements, standing by to repel the boarders.