Cyber Monday was invented by the National Retail Federation. It has nothing do to with people actually shopping more on line but they felt the public needed a push!
It's actually a useless media buzzword with no basis in fact but as the media keeps using it people are thinking there are more sales on Monday! Ya gotta love marketing (I do actually - I love watching these things).
In fact marketing this time of year is amazing. On CBS I found out the perfect Christmas present for DJ is a Pap Smear - that makes Christmas shopping so easy!! I asked her if this is what she wanted and said something on the order of me getting a colonoscopy! I mentioned I already had one and my ass was unremarkable (which I thought was rather disappointing until it was explained to me).
Is there a Pap Smear of the month club?
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Can anybody do any worse at trying to quell malicious rumors the Tiger Woods?? Seriously, does the guy have a press agent? A rumor comes out about an affair, a few days later he crash's his car at 2:30 in the morning, his wife who happens to have a golf club in her hand smashes the windows to get him out, he calls her act "courageous" (which I have to think most wife's would try to help?) and oddly Nike Ignite T40 19ยบ is embedded in his cheek.
Yet - all is good, nothing happened move along move along. Tiger! make something up, all you have to say is "My wife and I had a fight" and it will all go away, instead of "no comment, it's a secret". Now you got nobodies like me blogging about it. If you would have said "My wife and I had a fight" three days ago you would not be on the front page of the USA Today praising your wife (over and over).
Now you have to buy her something nice to make up. May I suggest a Pap Smear?
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Geez - I had 5 days off and no adventures. Unless you call Blake barfing all over my car and adventure. That will teach him for getting into the garbage and eating rotting raw turkey or whatever he put in his mouth.
We went to Beaver Dam shopping and he was the come-along dog, pulled into the garage and he is looking a little green. He jumps onto the passenger seat and BLAH!! Ever see the movie Four Christmases? I was Vince Vaughn when Blake blew chow!
BTW - Four Christmas's is a pretty good Christmas movie! Rent it. Here is the trailer.
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I have to comment on the Vikings. EVERYBODY is going ape shit over how good they are but come on now.
The combined record of all the teams they have beaten is 34-64. The ONLY team with a winning record they have beaten, are the Packers.
Their last 5 games are against 29-26 teams.
And just to be fair - the Packers have played opponents with a combined 51-47. However their 4 losses are against a combined 29-15 record.
Packers play a combined 27-28 the rest of the way out.
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I've been working on a new photo website and NOW I'm working on a NEW NEW photo website to replace the new photo website. I'm sort of Favre-ing it on website creation thang! This new one will be sweet though.
this was taken in Door County on eh Kangaroo Lake Causeway at sunset.--------------------------------------------
I just heard over a cubical "It's too close to Christmas, I can't make anybody mad". So it seems we are in the Christmas suck-up season!
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On this date in history in Sylacauga, Alabama, an 8.4 pound meteorite hit a house, bounced off a radio and hit a sleeping woman in the hip. Elizabeth Hodges became the first human injured by a meteorite. In 1911, a dog in Egypt was killed by the Nakhla meteorite.
The Nakhla meteorite was actually 40 and created a "cloud and detonations" when they all pummeled the earth killing a dog.
WHO's will like this one as it's bank related! In 1836 the Bank of Milwaukee was Incorporated. The Wisconsin Territorial Legislature passed into law legislation incorporating the Bank of Milwaukee, HOWEVER - the bank never opened its doors for business due to the panic of 1837 and other events.
Now he has some little bit of information he can hang over the Presidents head to show him who is really boss! Yea - knowledge is power. Use it for good Who's.
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Sixth warmest November ever in Wisconsin. Looks liker the next 10 days we will be in the middle to low 30's. Nothing radical.
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Caydence is getting less and less personal time with friends and family as she is ramping up for the big heart operation. No getting sick NOW Caydence. I think Josh is duct taping the house to ward off illness floating in the air. The process starts today with a trip to the doctor and December 14th is the big day. We're all hoping she will be home for Christmas.
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NUFF!
Have a great Cyber Monday!
Rod
Yep, this is a hilarious time of the year for observing shameless and witless marketing ploys. Last week, a Milwaukee TV network affiliate promo'd this feature for their 10pm news: Want to know where the really good Black Friday deals are? We combed the ads so you don't have to!
ReplyDeleteThe segment, inside their news broadcast, had their "reporter" inside a Walgreens saying that-- gosh-- you can find stuff for everyone on your list right here! Plus facetime with the manager, and a "customer" raving about shopping there. That was pretty much it. Wonder how much $$$ changed hands for that one?
And yet now that I've taken a potshot at the marketing/PR/spin industry (which I used to work in, so feel entitled)-- Tiger sure could use a more savvy brand manager. At least on this.
AWESOME PHOTO!!!!
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