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Is there a dumber ad campaign than Varian Medical Systems’ TV and radio commercials featuring letters from cancer? Their website works for me, but their TV and radio commercials with the letter to cancer that ends, “Love, Me,” don’t. I think being inspired by cancer patients courage is a wonderful idea and for each letter they post on their website Varian donates $10 to cancer research, up to $100,000. That’s great too. Look at the letters on their website instead of watching or listening to the commercials: http://www.varian.com/. The first one I looked at is signed, “Your sworn nemesis.” That’s much more like it. When I think about cancer, a number of four letter words pop into my head, but love isn’t one of them.
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Did you know I’m being plagiarized by someone I don’t know and never heard of? I said plagiarized for effect: I don’t really mean it. The blogger in question doesn’t credit the Sisyphus Project by name, but does link to it if you want more. http://download.gamers-haven.com/here/things-i-want-or-need-to-know. I’m flattered. If I didn’t know me really well, I’d be impressed too.
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Job hunting is very frustrating. I know why a prospective employer won’t give you a reason they don’t hire you. Nevertheless, how are you supposed to improve your act for the next interview if you never get any feedback about the mistakes you’ve made or how you could improve?
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I’d understand the whole thing about Bernie Madoff and bail, if he were free on bail as reporters keep saying and writing that he is. But he’s not free on bail; he’s under house arrest that he’s paying for. And if he is guilty as charged, he’s paying for the guards and the monitoring with money he stole from the people he swindled. As long as he’s under house arrest, I don’t understand why they don’t just throw him in jail.
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Near the end of that TV commercial Billy Mays does hawking some miracle fabric glue, he says, “You get everything for just $19.99.” I doubt he really means that, don’t you?
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Are hamburgers really that difficult that we need the Big City Slider Station?
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Would someone please explain to me why watching amateur video of people hurting themselves is funny? I cringe and change the channel if I inadvertently tune into “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” but the show has been on the air for many years now.
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Why does the Viking raider in the Capital One credit card commercial have a British accent?
