Laugh out loud lyrics dispelled the gloom

AS JANE Austen intended to say before last-minute notions of pride and prejudice distracted her, it's a truth universally acknowledged that one's funnybone can often be tickled by the unlikeliest of things.

- Phil Evans

Which was proved one recent Sunday afternoon, when I was feeling particularly cheesed-off because it'd been raining all day, it was almost dark, and twice (within half an hour!) I'd heard an annoying ad on the radio that featured a man telling me that a well-known electronics superstore was offering "twelve mumfs interest-free credit!" Yes. Twelve "mumfs".

Is it possible the Advertising Standards Council have lowered the bar on their standards?