CEO of the year

That's better than the "Who's Who" scam ;-) ...Jim Thompson

With the pound low it's totally worth it. (Probably $300 in the US)

George H.

I'll make you one for less.

Since the payment is in pounds, I must be the *international* CEO of the year.

I'll put you on the list of Engineer of the Century for way less. Or if you prefer some other title , let me know.

I know a guy, a real estate wheeler-dealer, who has a gorgeous conference room with fancy chandeliers and a wall covered with trophies and plaques, to impress clients. I'll ask him where he gets them.

He did recently set the all-time record for selling a piece of dirt here. About 140 million dollars per acre.

Best I could come up with on such short notice:

John

Sloman would be listed in 'What's What'! ;-)

Google finds "A W Sloman" in a bunch of peer-reviewed scientific papers. Adding "What's What" produced no hits at all, so Mike's hypothesis has been falsified.

Oddly enough, I did get a couple of hits with "Mike Terrell" and "What's What", but it didn't look as if he'd paid money for any of them.

Or listed in "Who?"

Was it this guy? Does he have a miniature giraffe, too?

Can't be, the guy in the video has way too much hair.

The woman lifting the tray of gold bars must be about the strongest woman in the world, too!

Or in 'Why bother, there's nothing here to see so move along...'

I've seen more than one movie in which someone, sometimes a woman of average build, handled several standard gold bars as if they weighed no more than a few kilos.

Gold painted Styrofoam is almost weightless. :)

More likely, "What's That".

Yup, the reason I remember that ad all these years later is because they pulled off the satire well - even those details!