{"id":383,"date":"2006-09-04T15:24:42","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T23:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2008-06-22T09:43:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T16:43:10","slug":"oh-for-the-love-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Oh, For The Love Of…."},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought about putting this one in the “Truth In Advertising” section, but decided that might be misinterpreted as a tacit endorsement of the very objectionable qualities that made me bring this up in the first place.<\/p>\n

I recently began getting a “complimentary” subscription to PC Magazine<\/a>, as a reward for filling out an online questionnaire. The mag’s okay, yet another missive with which to divert myself from undue reflection whilst on the throne (John Dvorak’s kind of a prick in my opinion, but I’m not sure he can help himself. When you earn your bread and butter yelling about stuff, it’s hard to know when enough is enough).<\/p>\n

However, some of the ads in this thing leave me wondering what the editors were thinking. The following comes to mind:<\/p>\n

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See the problem? Allow me to elaborate: “We’ve got $3 million in advertising, and<\/em> we have Annika Sorenstam….it’s what you call a hole in one<\/em>.” Get it?<\/p>\n

What kind of dickbrain was paid to put this ad together? I have a little trouble imagining that this was a totally innocent error. Don’t we computer nerds have a bad enough reputation without someone implying that we think this kind of thing is funny? “Heh heh, he said ‘hole’.”<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I guess I shouldn’t be terribly surprised, given the other ad that caught my eye some twenty pages further:<\/p>\n

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Between these and the full-page ad for Skoal Bandits<\/a> on the inside back cover, you get a pretty distinct\u2014and unfortunate\u2014picture of who they think is reading their fine publication. Don’t think I’ll be renewing my subscription when the trial period lapses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought about putting this one in the “Truth In Advertising” section, but decided that might be misinterpreted as a tacit endorsement of the very objectionable qualities that made me bring this up in the first place. I recently began getting a “complimentary” subscription to PC Magazine, as a reward for filling out an online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}