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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-05 02:46 AM
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I don't think I'm getting enough advertising in my life
I mean, admittedly cable features 200 or so channels that carry about 25% advertising even though we're PAYING to have this stuff funneled into our home and you can surf up to 10 channels in a row and hit nothing but ads on any of them. Admittedly radio is a warren of dumdum ads, including especially the ones for listening to radio. (Like the ones on Time-Warner for watching Time-Warner. Hey, thanks! I never would have thought of that!) Admittedly our roadways are bracketed by billboards everywhere, for restaurants where I don't want to eat and churches I have no interest in attending. But dammit, there could be more! I don't understand why there aren't advertisements beamed to my eyeglass lenses. Why aren't there ads preprogrammed into my CD-Rs so that I don't have to risk enjoying music without having idiots babble to me about acne cream. I know that there are cable channels composed entirely of advertising especially at this time of night, but half-hour infomercials and home-shopping shows lack ambition! There should be epic advertisements, days-long advertisements, advertisements that never end. There should be a channel devoted to non-stop 24-hour unsullied unedited unadulterated bullshit. There-- oh wait, we've already got that. Thank heaven for the Fox News Channel. Never mind!
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-05 02:59 AM
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1. Wanna make a billion dollars?
Invent a device that will silence a radio when the commercials play.

Oh, you won't get rich marketing the device to the general public. No.

But Clear Channel would pay you a billion dollars to own the patent.

:)
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-05 03:12 PM
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5. They own a goodly proportion of XM
I don't think they're too worried about it.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-05 04:17 AM
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2. Have you thought about a career in Advertising?
Just a thought :shrug:
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-05 07:04 AM
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3. why do you hate america?
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-05 07:11 AM
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4. That's Great!
:rofl:
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