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Like cures like
I keep seeing ads for Zicam on TV. Zicam is a homeopathic cold remedy that, unlike most homeopathic remedies, has progressed beyond anti-modern medicine hippiedom and found a marketing department. Homeopathy combines two stupid ideas: the claim that taking a substance that causes symptoms similar to an illness will cure that illness and that such a substance is most effective when diluted to the point where you’ve only ingested a couple of molecules of it.
I guess the moral of the story is that next time you get a headache, hit yourself in the head with a bat. A really tiny one.
Can you tell I’m bored tonight?
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Are you ever awake at 3AM? Have you ever seen the ads for that product that enhances “that special part of the male anatomy?” It’s a pill you take to make your dick bigger. But never once do they use the word “penis”. I suspect if they used the word penis, they could be brought up for making blatantly false claims.
It’s hilarious, but the best part is this – they supposedly interview men on the street, and each and every interview is with a guy with a fabulous babe on his arm dressed in evening attire.
You’re not the only one who gets bored.
Do you have to be awake at 3 AM for those? Enzyte commercials are on during the day. They were, anyway; I believe they’re being sued now.