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Happy Anniversary DotCom Bubble Burst!

March 10, 2010 By Godfather Leave a Comment

Not that the headline gives it away, but today marks the 10-year anniversary of the DotCom bust. So who were my favorites and how much cash did they burn through?

Flooz.com – Pushed by Whoopi Goldberg, it was meant as an online currency to replace credit cards. The Loss? $35 Million (not counting late fees).

Boo.com – Online fashion at its finest. Too bad most people were still on dial-up and you could knit a sweater faster than your computer would show you one. The cost? A cool $165 Million.

MVP.com – Full of big name endorsements like Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky; nobody still has a clue what the heck there where suppose to be offering – not that it didn’t stop them from blowing through $65 million.

Go.com – Disney’s attempt to take on Yahoo. This Mickey Mouse operation lost about $790 Million.

Pets.com – The $82.5 Million Dollar Sock Puppet. Need I say more?

Kibu.com – Lasting a record 45 days, it targeted teenage girls forgetting the fact they didn’t really have any money. The $22 Million could have been used for a really great trip to the Mall.

Got any favorites of your own? The above ones are real, but feel free to make up your own (never let the truth get in the way of a good story).

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John Lennon’s New Car Commerial

March 6, 2010 By Godfather Leave a Comment

So many people are upset about the John Lennon car commercial you would think they have shrines set up in their closets and voodoo dolls of Sean and Yoko burning in a dish.

Posting on Twitter, Sean Lennon said the ad was “not for money” but was intended to keep his father “out there in the world”.

Let it go already. If Sean and Yoko are ok with it – to keep their father/husband out in public once in awhile, so be it. It is not like they are doing it for the money (they are pretty set at this point).

Besides, would you rather see Yoko on a commercial to remind us of John Lennon? - I think not!

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Do It Yourself Dental?

February 26, 2010 By Godfather 2 Comments

Disclaimer: First off, I am not a Dentist and I have never played one on TV (or any movies for that matter). So my dental skills are limited to listening to my ipod while someone cleans my teeth and talks incessantly about Matt Lauer.

I do have a Facebook account and I am trying to understand the method of which I am targeted by advertisers. Most are pretty harmless but this one kind of threw me off, but then again, I am also intrigued.

Should I currently be a dentist or is this my opportunity to offer theslowbleed readers some supplemental dental coverage courtesy of yours truly?

I do have some space in the basement and I do have something that could work as a dental chair.

I am not sure what to do about anesthesia.

I have gasoline for the lawn mower and some hydrogen peroxide – just not sure if they would work or if there is a “safe” mixture I should adhere to. Perhaps the Dental Implant course comes with a quick course on anesthesia?

Ok, I am game. Who is up first?

UPDATE 2/28/10: OK, now the advertisements are getting even creepier.


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TIGER versus PETA Billboard Advertisement

February 25, 2010 By Godfather Leave a Comment

What happened to the good old days when PETA members would just grab a bucket of red paint and throw it on some 90-year-old women wearing a fur jacket at the ballet?

I guess red paint is hard to find now and no one is going to the ballet. Time to change the game plan…

PETA – the defender of, among other things,  “spay your cats and neuter your dogs,” is going after the big cat himself; Tiger Woods.

Putting aside the fact that I just beat up Tiger the other day for his press conference, this really is over the top on PETA’s part. What amazes me the most is PETA’s thinking that Tiger will think it is all in good fun?

Seriously? You think when Tiger drives outside his home and sees this billboard he will just start laughing at the whole thing?

He will probably find the “big tiger” “little tiger” part really amusing. So much so in fact he will probably pull over, take a picture of it with his camera phone, and email it to all his friends.

I suspect (or maybe secretly hope) that this really ends up being a hoax. If not, then all I can say is,  “Really PETA, just go to the paint store already and leave Tiger, and his family, alone.”

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Tiger Announces Return to Sex, I mean Golf, I mean WTF?

February 23, 2010 By Godfather 1 Comment

Ok, I am still trying to figure out just what the heck Tiger’s press conference last Friday was actually about (or who it was really for).

I get it. The affairs are private. Between you, your wife, some dancers, couple of waitresses, your caddie, some stewardesses, and Hooters Stores #423 and #345.

So, why the press conference?

You didn’t announce a return to golf as speculated (to meet an entry deadline) and there was nothing new in the statement.

Perhaps it was just part of the therapy but…

You decided to announce it during a golf tournament (on final cut day I may add) AND in the middle of the Winter Olympics.

Seriously? Were you falling out of the limelight so much that you had to try and make everyone stop and look at you?

In my opinion Tiger was right in his first set of statements from behind closed doors. The affairs are private. They are for him and his family to deal with and I hope he gets his stuff together because he is a hell of an athlete.

Just don’t take away anything from the athletes that are still out there trying to do their jobs and fulfill their, in some cases, Olympic dreams.

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Please Rob Me Website?

February 18, 2010 By Godfather 1 Comment

Sure you wouldn’t wear a sign that says “please rob me,” but would you put it in front of your house when you left? Some people are doing just that and Van Amstel created a website just to prove it.

His site is PleaseRobMe.com and it doesn’t really break any laws or make any milestones in the world of computer hacking. He is using it to warn people of the information they put on the web for all to see.

All Van Amstel (yes, he is Dutch) is doing is scraping social sites like Twitter and Facebook to see what people are talking about and re-posts on his site.

Many people say things like…

“Left home 5 minutes ago…”

“On vacation this week, sent the dog to the kennel”

“Spending the weekend at the lake…cat will be fine alone for that time”

It made me think: I am going to change what comments I write on Facebook or Twitter to help combat such a thing…

“Just left home, I hope the Pit Bull does not maim another Mailman.”

“On vacation this week. Really worried about having my NASCAR friends watch the house with all that ammo around.”

“Running to Starbucks for 30 minutes. I know I shouldn’t bother setting the landmines and booby traps, but I hope to catch someone (er something) someday.”

Yea, that should do it…(feel free to add any of your own below).

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Sarah Palin complains about Family Guy

February 17, 2010 By Godfather Leave a Comment

I am not one to normally point out when a politician is correct.  Fortunately for me, it doesn’t happen very often so I don’t have to. In the case of Sarah Palin and her complaints against The Family Guy cartoon, I, gulp, have to agree with her.

Don’t get me wrong, although I think Sarah’s overall knowledge and sense of reality are just short of being frozen herself; I think she has a legitimate complaint in this case.

If you missed it, and I think most of us did, The Family Guy featured an episode of the Griffin family’s son bringing home a girlfriend with Down’s syndrome. When quizzed by his parents about her family, she said that her mother used to be Alaskan governor.

Although I am guessing Palin’s issue is with the Down’s syndrome part (and not the daughter of an Alaskan governor) in either case, the show stepped over the line.

Palin herself is a fair target for late night parody (and there is sooo much to choose from) but leave the children out of the picture…special needs or not.

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