Get Me Some Eyeplugs

Hmmm... An ad for sleeping pills. Quick, witty - you might even say intelligent. Except a glance at the logo indicates that the product is earplugs... are earplugs?... is earplugs? Actually, who gives a crap. If you're reading this blog, you've got enough insight to know what I'm talking about.

The bottom line is that earplug people don't make legit ads. "How can you say that?!" I hear all the goddamn hippies gasping in unison. Well, my badly-coiffed, vegetarian friends, when last did you see an earplug ad? Even if - for some bizarre reason - some company selling foam rubber pellets did decide to spend on a nice glossy DPS, where would they publish it? I can assure you that earplugs are used far more by hairy men with chainsaws and the guys who run around aircraft carriers carrying bombs all day than they are by mildly attractive female crack addicts (as above the scamvertisment would have us believe). Think about that for a second.

Then think about this: "More creatives are killed each year as a direct result of publishing scam than are crushed by Mac monitors."

There's a lesson to be learnt here. And it's got nothing to do with computers.