Bits & Pieces, Odds & Ends…

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Just some idle thoughts…

 

Have you noticed the proliferation of commercials on TV by the major pharmaceutical companies advertising their newest drugs? They all look the same.

 

They set out the problem: like itchy eyelashes. They show how it’s ruining your life. Then the mood music begins as the announcer with a soothing voice tells you you should ask your doctor about new Wondo-drug… It’ll fix you up.. Now, we see the same people whose lives were once in ruin—flitting happily about the world! Wondo-Drug has made life beautiful…

THEN, as the happy people cavort, the announcer quickly mentions the side effects of Wondo-drug while the mood music gently underscores…

And usually the stuff is serious…

Heart attacks…T-B..brain hemorrhages…even DEATH ! !

I don’t know about you– but when the cure is worse than the disease, I’d rather live with my itchy eyelashes!!!

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The Presses are stopped !!

 

As a kid, I read a lot of comic books… and I NEVER really gave ‘em up.. They just changed form. I’m talking about the Weekly World News.

 

Where else could you get updates on Elvis’s comings and goings, find out the latest Bigfoot diet, discover what the Space Aliens were up to? Only in the TAB that liked to bill itself as “The World’s Most Reliable Newspaper.”

ALAS….

We will no longer be able to learn why Lincoln was a woman, Cheney a robot, or what Bat Boy is up to anymore.

The Weekly World News has ceased publication.

A victim of declining circulation–and quite possibly the Internet. They just couldn’t make up fake stuff as good as what you can find in cyberspace these days–especially on some blogs.

Beyond the fact that I’ll miss the laughs it used to give me– I’m in a quandary. Now, what am I supposed to do with that rare wedding photo of the Loch Ness Monster and Elvis I snapped last week?

 

–Steve

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