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The Crying of Natter 49  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Feb 09, 2007 12:04:30 pm PST #9694 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Other viral marketing campaigns haven't bothered with permits.

But that's because the cost of getting busted isn't so high, usually. It's illegal here to have ads on scaffolding (or whatever it's really called -- I can't pull the term to mind at the moment), but companies do it all the time anyway, because the fines aren't that high compared to the value of the advertising, which is huge.

well, the dr. didn't say so, but I am pretty sure it is a rare thumb cancer.

Did you catch it from bon?!!

Snerk.


Connie Neil - Feb 09, 2007 12:05:37 pm PST #9695 of 10001
brillig

t fuddy-duddy Hmph, scofflaws. t /fuddy-duddy

I get the hipness POV, but it's still dumb. I think I'm getting old.


Nutty - Feb 09, 2007 12:07:12 pm PST #9696 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Viral marketing is edgy -- don't you know that? Edgy people do not get permits. Also, even if they'd been granted, the permits would have been expensive. Viral marketing isn't worth doing unless it's cheap.

You'd hope someone would be suspicious by strange people fiddling around under bridges and such.

Well, as Tommy notes, they could do it quickly; but also, the place the first one was found? A bus stop. Directly next to the T station. Underneath an overpass.

It is like, How did Jimmy get his boogers into his sister's hair? Well, they were two of the nine chidlren mashed into the back seat, so it's possible he just breathed too hard on her.


Connie Neil - Feb 09, 2007 12:08:57 pm PST #9697 of 10001
brillig

so it's possible he just breathed too hard on her

And if he aimed just a little bit, well, it was probably by accident.


aurelia - Feb 09, 2007 12:11:13 pm PST #9698 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

if this marketing plan was in any way examined or approved by the executives, I do NOT understand how anyone looking over the plan didn't think, even for a millisecond, that it needed to be run by Legal, and that they definitely needed to get permits and the like from each city in question

I suspect there wasn't much oversight and outsourcing to boot. No place for the buck to stop which is why the top dog is now the one going down for it.


lisah - Feb 09, 2007 12:13:09 pm PST #9699 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

I have been instructed to please not lance myself anymore and also soak my thumb.

This reminds me of the HILARIOUS (no, really) story of my bff getting a splinter in her thumb, fishing around with a needle a la msbelle, and ending up having to be operated on by a hand specialist. Our mutual other bff who is an er doc gave her massive amounts of shit about it because it was totally something one of her junky patients would have done.


Sean K - Feb 09, 2007 12:13:46 pm PST #9700 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

It is like, How did Jimmy get his boogers into his sister's hair? Well, they were two of the nine chidlren mashed into the back seat, so it's possible he just breathed too hard on her.

I [heart] Nutty, and this analogy, SO MUCH.


§ ita § - Feb 09, 2007 12:14:40 pm PST #9701 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have been instructed to please not lance myself anymore

Some doctors are no fun.


Sheryl - Feb 09, 2007 12:15:30 pm PST #9702 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

G is back from his trip. Yay!


shrift - Feb 09, 2007 12:16:42 pm PST #9703 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I looked up a moment ago to discover that a coworker was wearing leather pants.

I just used up all my remaining willpower for the day by not pointing and laughing at him.