reporting from the consumer world

[threeplusfire]

I love having a job where all my funny work stories are not bound up in strict confidentiality laws and don't usually involve something bad happening. Instead, I can present you gems like a series of reviews left on every Toshiba product on a certain site with title like "WARNING: TOSHIBA KILLS SANTA FOR MY KID" or "TOSHIBA is the GRINCH THAT STOLE XMAS FOR MY KID." Each was an exact copy, a long and fairly boring customer service complaint about the trouble with repairing televisions. When I saw the first title I was really hoping it would be a story about how a giant Toshiba logo fell out of an airplane and crushed someone in a chimney pretending to be Santa. Alas, it just wasn't that creative.

Joan Rivers has a line of jewelry for sale on QVC. It includes these perfectly innocuous snowflake pieces, which are shiny and sparkly and look like snowflakes you might cut out of paper if you have steady hands. One reviewer evoked the ghost of Mommie Dearest though, writing: The earrings and necklace are lovely, but SNOWFLAKES ALWAYS HAVE SIX SIDES. NOT EIGHT. EVER!

I was totally unaware. Hah!

Comments

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

When I saw the first title I was really hoping it would be a story about how a giant Toshiba logo fell out of an airplane and crushed someone in a chimney pretending to be Santa.

BWA- *that* should've been my NaNo idea!

[mielikki.livejournal.com]

She is RIGHT though! That always bugs me.

BTW, when I clicked on that link there was a banner on the site that said "Barry Manilow is coming!" Now I will never get a boner again.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

HAHAH BEWARE OF BARRY MANILOW!

Really? I've never heard this rule of sides. Mike and Google seem to agree. Clearly I have missed this crucial bit.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

You need to work into your story somehow - it's epic!

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

I should have failed elementary school art with my many sided snowflake.