Thursday, February 19, 2009

Tu Feo Chango (Not For the Legally Blind)

Big words make us look smart. Big words make things automatically fact. Just look at the newspaper for example! We see something in big letters and we go, "GASP! HOLY COW! WOW! DAFT! THAT'S A SHAME! etc."
Yet small words we ignore as if they aren't there. In all reality these small words are what's important. We like to call this the "fine print". So now I'll show you an example of mad consumerism and the idiocy of the human population.

FREE HIGH SPEED INTERNET!! EVERY ONE WHO READS THIS IS A GENUIS!!! COME EAT OUR FREE POPCORN!
High speed interent is free for first half hour, regular costs will reach $99.95 per month. People who do in fact read this are not legally classified as genuises. One free piece of popcorn per person. No cash in rebate. Offer ends 2/20/09.

Those little small words are also talked in hurried/hushed tones. I wonder why that is? Do those people who read the "fine print" in commercials have to go to school for that? Maybe they were born with it or maybe it's Maybeline.

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