Pitchmen TV

Does any one really enjoy garden and yard work? I know that show like King of the Hill portray men who love to do nothing but mow their lawns during the time off work, but is it really that realistic to believe some people kinda live for their yards and gardens. Despite that I am sure there are a very few exceptions I would have to say the answer is no, no one out there lives for their gardens and such. That is why it is called yard work, not yard play. I don’t know about anyone else but when I am not at work, I don’t want to do any kind of work. I even say I am going to play out when I exercise just to eliminate the negative context of “working” out.

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So then you are left with two questions. Should I do the necessary yard work to keep my yard looking nice and presentable, or should I neglect my yard and buy a broken down truck motor for the front yard to go with weeds and complete the redneck ensemble? Preferably, I would rather go with the first of the two, but why does it have to suck so badly? Well, now that the Awesome Auger is out, I guess I can at least cut some of the “work” time out simply by using this little guy to weed, dig and till. No longer do I have to break a sweat by bending over to dig holes for shrubs and flowers or get cuts in my hands from pulling weeds or even hurting my lower back (runs in my family) by manually tilling the ground. This thing does all this and more. I could write volumes about how many uses I could come up with for this truly awesome, Awesome Auger, but I suggest you just get one and find out for your self how easy it is to use and how much more free time you might find you have on your off days. Here is to cat napping in the back yard and not having to “work” on your weekend.

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A large group of pre-teen girls getting faint. They jump up and down and scream and fan each other. It’s a concert for the latest boy band, right?

Well, in most cases, but in this case, it’s the participants in the commercial for BRAINIACS, as teeny-boppers get all emotional and giggly because they’ve managed to memorize the square root of an incredibly complex problem.

Let me state going into this, I have tutored for many years, and I absolutely love any program that helps kids learn advanced math concepts and helps them to master basic memorization. And at the same time, I absolutely was annoyed to no end by this commercial. Sorry, just no fan of shrieking girls, even when they’re shrieking over the value of pi.

Other little things annoyed me, too. For instance, when the announcer talked about “squaring a 3 digit number in your head without a calculator.” Umm, as opposed to squaring it in your head WITH a calculator? If you used a calculator, doesn’t that mean it wasn’t in your head? And doesn’t that mean, therefore, that this statement by a man advertising an educational product was redundant?

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But by far, the part that annoyed me most was when the man asked a classroom how much is 61 divided by 91, and he applauded when a boy said. 6,703,296. That’s fine—except it’s wrong. It’s .6703297 (if you’re rounding up). Not griping about the 6 instead of the 7 as the lack of the decimal.

Guess the producer of the commercial just forgot. Guess he needs BRAINETICS.

Outstanding product—REALLY bad commercial.

DOG PEDIC SLEEPING SYSTEM: Infomercial Review

Like many people, one of my pet peeves are people who dress up their dogs in human clothing. He’s not a human, so why do we try so hard to pretend he is? Especially when the dog hates it so much.

I’ll say one thing for the DOG PEDIC SLEEPING SYSTEM, which I just saw advertised on a late-night commercial: At least this is one case where the dog loves being treated like a human. Even if it is still–well, weird. Here’s the concept. You’ve seen those adjustable mattresses for people, right? The ones with “memory foam” that adjust according to each person’s body? Take that, chop the mattress down to “doggy size” and produce a memory-foam mattress for Fido. That’s what you have with Dog Pedic.

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My mother is such a huge animal lover, that of course, both of her basset hounds sleep inside on her bed with her. Or they did, until she heard about Dog Pedic. Now they each sleep on their own “bed.” But still in her room. Is there any room really cut out for three mattresses, doggy-sized or not?

When the commercial says, “You sleep soundly in a comfortable bed, but what about your best friend?” my response is, “My best friend sleeps better than most of his family. You know, the wolves and wild dogs who sleep out in the forest at night?”

One other amusing fact about this commercial: I don’t know if there are different sizes of Dog Pedic mattresses or not, but clearly they have not yet produced one St. Bernard size….since that dog in their commercial looks like he could fall off the Dog Pedic at any moment. But it could be worse: He could be sleeping in the Alaska snow, where his brothers and sisters are.