{"id":3692,"date":"2006-04-27T08:46:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T13:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/04\/27\/random-thursday-2\/"},"modified":"2022-03-12T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T18:32:32","slug":"random-thursday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/04\/27\/random-thursday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none; border: 0;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/scans\/dodgead.jpg\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/scans\/dodgead-t.jpg\" alt=\"Scan of Dodge ad\" width=\"133\" height=\"133\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"8\" \/><\/a>This is so much easier than actually giving any thought to a post&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Print Ad of the Week goes to the new one for the Dodge Caliber, which I scanned from the new issue of <em>Mountain Bike<\/em>. Click on the thumbnail at right to see the full-sized version (minus all the annoying-but-inevitable fine print at the bottom urging you not to try to xerox your car&#8217;s butt at home). It may be carrying the American tendency to anthropomorphize our vehicles to an extreme, but it&#8217;s still funny. If you like junior high humor, of course. Which, of course, I do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Did I mention that I drive a Dodge?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And speaking of ads, remember back a few days when we were talking about the Alltel wireless phone ads that showcase the competitors&#8217; spokesmen\/women\/things? (No? Shame on you.) I wondered whether Alltel would build on that first ad, and the answer came this morning when it ran on Fox &amp; Friends. Instead of the ending group hug, however, it concluded with the geeky Can-You-Hear-Me-Now? guy from Verizon (thanks, <a title=\"And Then I Woke Up\" href=\"http:\/\/andtheniwokeup.blogspot.com\/\">Beth<\/a>!) leering at the Catherine Zeta-Jones clone, asking, &#8220;does this mean I can call <em>her<\/em>?&#8221; Pseudo-CZJ responds with a silent eye-roll that forever brands Verizon Guy as the all-time loser we figured him to be. Excellent. And, again, gutsy for Alltel to conclude the ad with the spotlight on the competition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Here&#8217;s it<\/em> is fun to type and funner to say. Try it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Which classic rock group did a song referring to the all-time loser?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I see that a distinguished Congressional panel has done intensive study and concluded that FEMA is broken, can&#8217;t be fixed, and needs to be replaced. I dare that panel to study Congress. Double-dare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of Fox &amp; Friends, I liked E.D. Hill&#8217;s suggestion this morning that if all Mexicans and illegal Mexican immigrants are going to boycott US products and services on May 1 in protest of the immigration reform movement, they should go all the way with it and refuse to accept any of the free government-subsidized social and medical services. The US taxpayers might just come out ahead on that deal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In closing, let me just say that any blogger worth his or her salt should be willing to make a fool of himself or herself, just to prove that he or she isn&#8217;t taking himself or herself too seriously. As if I haven&#8217;t already sufficiently shown my capacity to do just that, there&#8217;s a good chance that I&#8217;m going to take that sentiment to a whole new level tomorrow. Stay tuned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just another Content Free\u2122 post from the Fire Ant Gazette, where we take seriously our pledge to always be &#8220;cheap but not inexpensive.&#8221; I urge all my readers to show your support by not buying any Fire Ant merchandise on May 1. (After all, why should May 1 be any different than the other 364 days of the year?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random is as random does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-random-thursday","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8677,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/8677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}