Some things you just cannot make up...

My friend Liz asked me, on Instant Messenger, to check if I could get into Ebay.com. I was able to, though she was unable to see anything but code. While she tried to fix the problem on her end, I checked out the page and at the bottom was a list of “Featured Items”.

This caught my eye: “Lose 95 lbs by Nov Guaranteed”.

By November? Hmm. That would be nine days from today. Lose ninety-five pounds by then? How?

Sadly, I think I figured it out... someone will come to your house and amputate parts of your body, most probably your limbs. It has to be the answer! Certainly starving yourself isn’t going to make a dent in weight loss... in nine days!

I mentioned that to Liz. Then I thought, what if you already weigh ninety-five pounds?

Then I saw this... “Lose 95 lbs by Dec Guaranteed”.

Oh, much better! They must have realized their mistake!

"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
~Stephen Butler Leacock