Here is a pet peeve that I have; timed offers in radio commercials. Like "call in the next 50 minutes and we will give you a free waffle iron, free!" Here is a tip, they will give you the waffle iron, whenever you call. They certainly don't track the replay of commercials, and then start time zone specific timers.
I know it sounds petty, but it's just another form of lying. Accepted. Indocronated. Lying. And I find it really offensive when it's tacked onto a commercial where they use their honest policies and practices as a selling point. We have one window and door vendor on my local radio station where they tell a story about how they went into business after being shafted by another vendor. So their pitch is the whole honesty and integrity thing. But then at the end they tack on one of the these timed offer things! Grrr....
Hey, I know the idea. It's easier to sell something under the pressure of time. The limited edition DVD. The day after Christmas sale. The big weekend sale at the car lot. I get it. But at least those things are basically true. The prices will generally go up after the sale, though they were artificially high in the first place. Where the whole 'timed offer' thing is just a straight out lie.
Anywho... Enough from the soap box. Back into my hole.
Posted by jherr at March 1, 2006 03:51 PMJack, Darling, we love you, but I don't know when you ever get off the soapbox.
That is why we keep coming back.
Thanks for saying it Blarb!!
Posted by: Jacqueline at March 2, 2006 07:51 AMOk, I'll take the hit on the soap box thing. But 'Blarb'? That's just nasty. From the moment I heard it I thought that was the nastiest nickname I have ever heard for anyone.
Posted by: jherr at March 2, 2006 08:56 AMJust curious, when did you first hear it? Because she's had that nickname since the first time I mispronounced it in college.
Posted by: Jacqueline at March 2, 2006 01:45 PMThe first time I heard it was in our email conversations with Barbara about 'jacquelinejacquemain.com'.
Posted by: jherr at March 2, 2006 02:07 PMI've never been offended by it. It's just a silly nick name with no meaning beyond affection.
Well, alright then, blarby. ;-)
Posted by: jherr at March 2, 2006 02:35 PMBlarby-Blarb to you mister!
Posted by: bsaz at March 2, 2006 05:08 PMExactly! Names should not be mixed with potentially demeaning classes of lighter than air craft. And I don't mean, 'barbareppelin'. Or maybe I do.
Though that sounds like a drug name on E.R. "Dammit, give me 20 units of barbareppelin. And no smoking in here!"
And really, no mixing of names with other things like tank, applied to me creating 'jank', or jerk, making 'jark'.
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