Archive for May, 2003


But first…

I’d been delaying on this meme, since so many people jumped on this bandwagon. But now feels like the appropriate time.

Here’s the skinny. You ask a question. In a week or so, I post answers.
No questions are displayed during the poll. Whether or not they are with the answers… Dunno.

Apple Jacks has a new promotion. Apparently, after the “dread failure” of putting ‘red apples’ into apple jacks. The cereal that tastes nothing like it looks like has put up a mock election for you the public to choose the next incongruous shape to be added.

Mock election? How could I say such horrible things about the beauty that is democracy.

Well, having just waled past the rather elaborate commercial being filmed with the kid caucus celebrating the triumph of Blue Carrot. That’s right. You people who were hoping for Brown Banana or Orange Discs (Disc: One of my favourite fruits or vegetables), give it up. It’s fixed. The commercials are already in production and …

Does anyone actually still buy into any of this stuff?

In the wizened words of my good friend, colleague, and fellow member of my church and order, “Hand-wave, hand-wave, hand-wave.”

I am entering this on the mobile. This means typing will be a bit of a struggle. I want to get in the practice of more ‘what I did’ posts than the usual rant, rave, and stuff like that. We’ll see how I do.