The Dallas Morning News must be hurting for subscriptions, if they’re resorting to reminding their readers they’re paying $4 a gallon at the pumps as a marketing hook. Today I received an email sporting the following subject line: “Save gas, have news delivered to you!”
Since when has saving gas been the straw that broke the [...]
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Irony
Yesterday an advertisement for Oprah’s Bestlife Challenge 2008 (”This is your year to end the struggle with weight!”) was immediately followed by a commercial for all you can eat pancakes at IHOP.
Should I write Oprah and let her know? Do you think she would champion me and together we could crusade against WFAA-TV and IHOP? [...]
Cutting For Dummies
For those of you who didn’t master “can hold and use scissors properly” in kindergarten, there’s just the product for you. It’s the Craft-Lite Cutter. Don’t be afraid to order and admit that you lack basic motor skills — as you will see in this infomercial, someone is even more inept than you: