Broadview Security

I've seen three different ads for this alarm system company and all seem to have a serious flaw.

1. Woman and child go inside house for lunch. A gruesome man kicks in the door. Mother and child scream and run upstairs. The phone rings, the woman answers, it's Broadview Security.

2. Woman returns home after a date. Her ex-boyfriend smashes through the door. The woman screams and runs upstairs. The phone rings, it's Broadview Security.

3. A man who has apparently just attended a party at a woman's house smashes in. The woman screams. Apparently she runs upstairs because she's shown sliding across a bed to answer the phone. It's Broadview Security calling.

It seems to me that running upstairs might not be the wisest thing to do - unless maybe these women have a gun upstairs. Most all houses have just one way out from upstairs - down the stairs. If you're downstairs you have multiple ways to get out.

BMW

BMW has a TV ad where a guy is standing in darkened area. He’s holding a fluorescent bulb. He says that Americans are responsible people and BMW is responsible too. That’s when about 10,000 fluorescent bulbs in the ceiling come on.

Car Insurance

Progressive ad says I can save $450/yr by switching from my present insurance.

GEICO ad says I can save $400/yr by switching from Progressive.

Allstate ad says I can save $350 by switching from GEICO.

So, I'm going with Progressive. Then I'm switching to GEICO and then to Allstate.

It'll be nice to get a check from Allstate every month.

The Slim Clip

I don't carry a wallet and I break credit cards a few times a year from them being in my pocket. I decided to buy the advertised on TV, "Slim Clip." It holds up to 6 credit cards and thirty bills. When you order for "just $10, we'll include, for free, our handy pocket laser light. Act now and we'll double your order. That's 2 Slim Clips and 2 pocket laser lights for just $10. Just pay separate shipping and handling."

I went to their site. As I placed the order there was a page that offered three more for just another $10. I figured what the hell. It's just $10 plus separate shipping and handling.

Nowhere did the site have info about shipping and handling charges! I checked.

The final order amount was $75.97! $20 for merchandise and $50.97 for shipping and handling.

I called them to cancel. "We can't cancel yet. The order won't be delivered from the website until tomorrow. You'll have to call back tomorrow."

I went back to the site and found a "contact form." I cancelled through that form 52 times - Once for each dollar of shipping and handling charges.

Today the charge was posted to my card account!

Tomorrow it will be charged back.

Obama

I have got to get one of these:

Chia Obama

Light & Fit

TV commercial again.

I’d love to meet this chick:

Watch the end of her commercial:

Light & Fit Commercial

Bad Ad

There's an ad for "Free Credit Report Dot Com."

The guy is singing about how he married his dream girl only to find out she has bad credit.

First off, he and his buddies are playing music while his (hot) wife is doing housework - laundry. Shouldn't he, at least, get himself and his friends out of her way, if not offer to help her?

But the worst is at the end: If he had known his "dream girl" had bad credit, he'd be a bachelor, living in the suburbs with a dog and a yard. Isn't there something a little twisted about that?

Gold!

TV commercial with Gordon Liddy. He over emphasizes "GOLD!" every time he says it. "Some analysts say GOLD! will reach $1500."

It made me wonder though: How much GOLD! is buried in graves? Could it be that there's more GOLD! in a large cemetery than the value of the money in a bank? How high does the value of GOLD! have to go before there's grave robbing?

How quiet can you make a backhoe?

But then, who would really know if an undertaker removed all the GOLD! (and other valuables) from the "Dearly Departed" before burial?

Thought on Medicine

Where do they come from? the latest I've seen advertised on TV is "Low T." I never heard of it before I saw the ads. Naturally, one of the major companies has a drug to treat this "Low T" malady.

I wonder - is this how it works: A drug company does all sorts of R&D only to have a drug fail. It's worthless. They're going to be out a bundle. No, wait! They create a malady this failed drug can treat. Advertise it enough and people will start to think they have the malady.

Another success! XXYY Drug Company cured this new malady!