Insert Lawyer Joke Here

By Shamus Posted Monday Jul 30, 2007

Filed under: Rants 59 comments

Most advertisements are stupid. I’ve mentioned this before. But once in a while an ad comes along that exceeds the others in banality, vapidity, and idiocy. It achieves some sort of transcendent state where it becomes the sort of stupid that only a genius could come up with. Which makes you wonder how the thing came to exist in the first place. Case in point:

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Legal advice. For single “girls”. The mind reels. I predict this will annoy twice as many women as it will attract. The idea that women can’t be expected to seek legal advice unless it’s fabulous! is about as insulting as suggesting a man couldn’t comprehend an algebraic formula unless it was written on some chick’s boobs.

Perhaps this is the first in a series of articles on esoteric subjects which have been demarcated by meaningless personal distinctions:

  • HTML for Redheads.
  • Paleontological tips for Canadians.
  • The newlywed guide to Astronavigation.
  • Gravitational Theory for Italian-Americans.
  • Metallurgical Engineering for Diabetics.

Oh, and I’m just commenting on the ad. I have no idea if the column or the expert herself are interesting or not. I’m just saying: That ad is crazy.

 


 

DM of the Rings CXXVIII:
A Legacy of Deceit

By Shamus Posted Monday Jul 30, 2007

Filed under: DM of the Rings 87 comments

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A Legacy of Deceit”

 


 

DMotR Special 3:
The Elven Hillbillies

By Shamus Posted Friday Jul 27, 2007

Filed under: DM of the Rings 92 comments

This week I’m posting some amusing screencaps and photoshoppings while I recover from surgery. DMotR will resume next week.
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The Elven Hillbillies”

 


 

DMotR Special 2:
Do it While You Still Can

By Shamus Posted Wednesday Jul 25, 2007

Filed under: DM of the Rings 78 comments

This week I’m posting some amusing screencaps and photoshoppings while I recover from surgery. DMotR will resume next week.
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Do it While You Still Can”

 


 

Crass Merchandising

By Shamus Posted Wednesday Jul 25, 2007

Filed under: Links 29 comments

My wife has discovered Zazzle, a site along the lines of CafePress. You upload your stuff, and they put it onto a t-shirt or mug or whatnot for sale. Zazzle offers more options and a bigger cut of the proceeds. (Not that I’ve sold anything yet, I’m just going by what I see in the fine print.) She’s been filling her Zazzle account with her photographs and watercolor paintings. (I love this one.) Merchandising aside, she seems to enjoy the process of making this stuff for its own sake. Having exhausted her supply of material to merchandise, she’s decided to set up a DMotR store.

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DMotR Special 1:
A Pointed Editorial

By Shamus Posted Monday Jul 23, 2007

Filed under: DM of the Rings 131 comments

This week I’m posting some amusing screencaps and photoshoppings while I recover from surgery. DMotR will resume next week.
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A Pointed Editorial”

 


 

NumOrgans−−

By Shamus Posted Saturday Jul 21, 2007

Filed under: Personal 85 comments

I got through surgery and had my gallbladder removed.

Wow. That was rough. I’m never doing that again.

Thanks so much for the well-wishes from my friends and fellow bloggers who wished me luck. Thanks also to the well-wishers in the comments. Over a hundred wishes for speedy recovery. This is the ‘net equivalent of waking up in a hospital room full of flowers. Thanks again.

I’m alive and semi-coherant. I’m not allowed to run or lift heavy things for a week, which will not impact my lifestyle in any way whatsoever. The doctor may just as well have forbidden me to do any alligator wrestling. Moving heavy objects? Running? Do I look like Gordon Freeman to you?

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