Alas, our buyer will not exercise regularly. That's not what he
paid for! The promise of the exercise informercials is that
exercise can be rendered effortless.

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:16:01 GMT, "Sara Brum" <right@home.here> wrote:

I guess that as long as there are people in the world who believe that
buying an "Abtastic" will make them look like the bodybuilder in the
infomercial, we'll have people willing to buy into religions.

You ever had any doubts that religion was anything but the longest con
game in history?

Sara Brum wrote:

Insidious things. I see them often when I get up at/before daylight to
tend
to young master stinky britches. I really must try to convince him to
sleep
in, but I digress... It struck me today that infomercials and
televangelists share the same timeslot, and both have the same agenda:
To
sell worthless crap to the unwashed masses at a ridiculously high price.
Sadly, it must be effective, because we can't seem to get rid of either
of
them.

*sigh*

I guess that as long as there are people in the world who believe that
buying an "Abtastic" will make them look like the bodybuilder in the
infomercial, we'll have people willing to buy into religions.

And to me, the worst thing of all is that the infomercials have
replaced old movies on TV. In a "Dexter's Lab" cartoon, there was a
reference to the old "Late Late Late Show" and it went right over my
daughter's head. "Late night? Yeah, dad-that's when you turn on the DVD
player." The girl has never seen "Casablanca" or "The Thin Man".

OTOH, the local PBS station ran "The Manchurian Candidate" a few weeks
back. She sat through it with me. Reluctantly at first, but after it
was over, she said "I never knew there were movies like that..." Hear
that, Hollywood? Ya wanna fill those empty theatres? Try writing a
decent script *before* you plan the special effects & see what happens.

And to me, the worst thing of all is that the infomercials have
replaced old movies on TV.

Sara Brum wrote:

Insidious things. I see them often when I get up at/before daylight to
tend
to young master stinky britches. I really must try to convince him to
sleep
in, but I digress... It struck me today that infomercials and
televangelists share the same timeslot, and both have the same agenda:
To
sell worthless crap to the unwashed masses at a ridiculously high price.
Sadly, it must be effective, because we can't seem to get rid of either
of
them.

your tv doesn't have an off switch? mine does!