Family Guy has revealed my pizza scam!

In the episode "Prick Up Your Ears" Mayor Adam West orders a pizza. When the pizza man comes, West opens the pizza box and goes "You brought me canadian bacon, and I wanted regular bacon!" and throws the pizza box down.


In college we would order two pizzas. One pepperoni and one canadian bacon. A few times the pizza place would send one with regular bacon. Then we would call them up, inform them of the mix up, and BAM! free pizza.

Well, Sony does ONE thing right.

And that is the ads for Ratchet and Klank. The commercials are all similar, just like the games. And also similar to the games, they're consistently good.


The current commercial is for the PSP version of the game. The kids are showing off the new shrink ray. It's a quasi-nightvision shot during a a camping trip. Four guys are gonna use the shrink ray so that the one guy can see the girls changing. They shrink him (a nice looking effect for a commercial) and as he makes a run for the girls' tent, an owl swoops down and steals him.


This is the clever advertising Sony needs. not the creepy anamatronic baby commercial from the PS3 launch.

Someone take an AXE to their marketing department!

I hate the current Axe commercial. Their commercials are pretty lowbrow, but this one is just... I'm suprised it's still on the air. I would have thought a feminist group would havescreamed to high heaven by now.

There are several versions of different length, but in general it's a mass of attractive women in bikini's swimming, running through a jungle, and hurdling over one another in an attempt to grap a man who is spraying two cans of Axe over himself. The camera zooms out to show the breathtaking scale of the stampeding women, and we're greeted with the new commercial's tag line "Spray more get more."

Spray more get more. Get more what? Women in general? Sex? I know it's purposely ambiguous, but come on, be a little more original in showing that this aerosol spray scent is going to get me more women.

LAME!
LAME!
LAME!

Can someone explain something to me about economics?

I'm an Accountant, so I have a better than average grasp of financial issues. One thing that continues to mystify me is how on one hand we are happy that consumer spending is up and then lament the negative savings rate.

If the savings rate has been negative for awhile now, wouldn't it seem that the only way consumer spending could go up is if savings continued to go negative.

We also wring our hands over the fact that the house-come-ATM market is going belly-up and the deplorable practices of Capital One, while depending on the money that comes from these sources.

We need to strike a balance between being able to make money as a business and protecting the individual (who is often too stupid to know better).