Thursday, July 10, 2008

What In The Wide, Wide, Wide World of Sports?

I was watching TV the other night and an ad came on for "Aussie" shampoo. The premise of the ad is that a giant stuffed purple kangaroo is getting a massage. I don't know how this is supposed to make you want to buy this brand of shampoo, but the masseuse for some reason finds it necessary to do an elbow drop on the kangaroo and a bottle of shampoo goes flying out of her - pouch? Is it her pouch? You decide.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

It hard out here for a 'ho

While I was playing Zuma tonight, I heard the TV in the other room. As usual, it was a reality show, which is why I was playing Zuma and not in the other room. Anyway, I heard someone refer to Paris Hilton as looking like a "high priced hooker." This got me wondering...is that supposed to be an insult? I did a search on "high priced hooker" on google, and amongst the real ads for hookers were some images of the hooker that got NY Governor Eliot Spitzer busted. She's pretty hot, looking at the camera in a sultry kind of way. I then looked for images of Paris Hilton and found one where she's looking similarly sultry, and is pretty hot too.

I mean, if you're a high priced hooker, I think the odds are that you're above average looking or you could not command a high price. It's simple economics...a 'ho can only charge what the market will bear.

Take the next two for instance. On the left a real hooker. On the right, a smelly pirate hooker from Whore Island - AKA Brittney Spears. Adam Smith is long dead, but I bet 232 years ago when he was writing The Wealth Of Nations he would have postulated that the invisible hand wouldn't have touched either of these two for more than a few bucks, while Girly Sue above was pulling $4000 a visit out of the NY Gov.

My point, if I have one here, is that saying a woman looks like a high priced hooker is not much of an insult. Women obviously spend a lot of time and money to look that good.

Also, mailmen aren't the only ones who have to work in the rain. If you're a hooker, invest in a good umbrella.