Who Actually Buys This Stuff?
As scrawny little ten or eleven year old boys, my next door neighbor and I saved up our allowances for a "Body Building" book advertised in a magazine. For those of you too young to remember back in the 60’s, one of the first famous body builders was a guy named Charles Atlas. His big advertising gimmick was a cartoon portraying a big bully kicking sand in the faces of smaller guys at the beach. I suspect more because our bodies started growing and matured than any exercise program, but we were amazed with the results and it kept us occupied for a while. What amazes me now… or I think for the most part amuses me, is the vast array of gimmicks and cure alls available now through email and the Internet. In one day, if I bought every item sent to me as spam in my email I could have: Bigger Boobs A Smaller Iron Butt Smoother Legs A Twelve Pack Stomach (Twelve Pack?) A Four Hour Erection Add Twelve Inches to My Penis A Couple Hundred Thousand Bucks Worth of "Free" Loans An Instant "Degree" for a "Prestigious" sounding University and on… and… on… and on and… Every Drug Known to Mankind at Half Price Wow…for a nominal fee I could be the Man Of Steel walking around stoned, with huge boobs, a butt you could break walnuts with, baby-butt smooth legs, and a python in my pants who would get his head caught in doors and toilet seats when he wanted attention. I would need the bogus degree to find a job to pay for all the loans and medical bills. Such a deal. What human being in their right mind actually buys this stuff online, or for that matter, most of it anywhere? Not only that, but what nutcase is actually sending all this stuff to everyone? Must be just my warped sense of humor. I get this picture in my mind of all these pimply faced teenagers spending mommy and daddy’s hard earned money on all this junk. Funnier than that, fast forward a few years to when they get to be adults… lol talk about some weird looking people. I must be in the wrong business, just think about all the money I could be making just sending mail out to all the suckers. You just can’t beat the Free Enterprise system. Hmmmm…. anybody interested in Incorporating? DB