Now That I've Got Your Attention, Buy Some Produce
Miscellaneous notes of the day:
...Since I turn on NBC on Thursday evenings to watch The Office, I see a fair number of promos for E.R., which after something in the neighborhood of a decade looks like it's slid pretty far from its groundbreaking-medical-show peak into the valley of implausible melodrama and frequent gun battles. I was talking to Jack and his friends about this last weekend and he made the great suggestion that the show should go out with a beat-for-beat reproduction of the climactic hospital-soap scene in Tootsie. The camera would then cut away to Bill Murray saying, "Now that is one nutty hospital". So consider this an open letter to the network.
...This afternoon I was walking past the cafe in the office and had my attention grabbed by a couple of cardboard boxes of Topless brand premium green leaf lettuce. The logo under the writing was a cartoon of a spinning top, which is not at all like the image that sprang immediately to mind. Maybe there's some interesting background to the name but it seems like a pretty shameless way to brand your vegetables.
...Also shameless was a Geraldo segment I couldn't help but see with some coworkers yesterday, since it was blaring from the TV right over our table at the wings place where we were having lunch. It was a piece about the recent shooting at an Amish school near Lancaster; mostly I noticed that the title at the bottom of the screen was "Tragedy in Paradise". I think this was a coded Weird Al reference. I can't decide if that makes the segment better or worse.
...Since I turn on NBC on Thursday evenings to watch The Office, I see a fair number of promos for E.R., which after something in the neighborhood of a decade looks like it's slid pretty far from its groundbreaking-medical-show peak into the valley of implausible melodrama and frequent gun battles. I was talking to Jack and his friends about this last weekend and he made the great suggestion that the show should go out with a beat-for-beat reproduction of the climactic hospital-soap scene in Tootsie. The camera would then cut away to Bill Murray saying, "Now that is one nutty hospital". So consider this an open letter to the network.
...This afternoon I was walking past the cafe in the office and had my attention grabbed by a couple of cardboard boxes of Topless brand premium green leaf lettuce. The logo under the writing was a cartoon of a spinning top, which is not at all like the image that sprang immediately to mind. Maybe there's some interesting background to the name but it seems like a pretty shameless way to brand your vegetables.
...Also shameless was a Geraldo segment I couldn't help but see with some coworkers yesterday, since it was blaring from the TV right over our table at the wings place where we were having lunch. It was a piece about the recent shooting at an Amish school near Lancaster; mostly I noticed that the title at the bottom of the screen was "Tragedy in Paradise". I think this was a coded Weird Al reference. I can't decide if that makes the segment better or worse.
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What confuses me about that Topless Produce page is that their logo features a spinning top. This is a direct contradiction of the one piece of information their company name communicates.
Their logo should feature an empty space, obviously free of any kind of top, thus suggesting "See? We possess no tops, or even one top." And then since you had an empty space in the logo, you could drop in a picture of a topless chick.
Pure marketing gold!
No, the topless refers to the produce itself. There are no tops included with the lettuce. None. And don't think you can spin a head of romaine the same way. You'll be sorely disappointed.
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