Chemical Advertising: Sad but untrue. Of course.

Heard a funny story lately? Here’s one on Escape Pod.

“What do you see?” he asks.

I want to say a menace, but instead I tap the delivery barrel and give the context-appropriate answer. “Unused ad space.”

Suddenly he’s a schoolmaster who has finally found a bright pupil in a classroom full of dunces.

“Exactly, Ms. Monroe. Exactly. No square millimeter wasted, that’s what I say.” He leans across the table and whispers conspiratorially, “We’re looking at co-branding an AOL-Time-Warner-Starbucks Lattepaloosa Crave with a Forever Fitness session discount.”

Rated R. Contains sexual innuendo, advertising warfare, and better living through chemistry.  

After an introduction like that, I’d like to see you resist ‘Just do it’.

Just another gratuitous and mildly irrelevant picture to go with a link. Of course.