When I say, "Are WE stupid..." I really mean other folks, not me. Is it just me, or is stupidity really at an all-time high?
For instance, take these brainiacs who will stand in line for 48 hours to buy a video game. Admittedly, most do it so they can sell the video game at a profit. Maybe the folks at Sony are the stupid ones. Why don't they just take all their x-boxes, or whatever they're called and sell them on E-bay themselves for thousands of dollars.
And tell me this...how stupid do you have to be to pay three thousand dollars for a six hundred dollar game in order to be the first on your block to own that x-box.
I think Best Buy and Circuit City should take the folks who line up to buy the game, and make them do some sort of community service during those 48 hours they're just hanging around, getting their pictures taken by the stupid people at the newspaper who think there's something interesting about all this.
And, then what about those stupid people who write columns about the stupid people who do all those other stupid things mentioned above. Now, that's really stupid.
I tell you what else is stupid. I heard this morning that when this new movie, Dreamgirls comes out, they're going to sell tickets for twenty-five dollars for the first ten days. So, if you want to impress all your friends by telling them you were one of the first to see the movie, you have to shell out twenty-five bucks.
Listen, take some advice from an old man who has been around the block a few times. If you want to impress people with stuff you have or stuff you've done, impress them the old fashioned way...lie. It's easy and it doesn't cost a dime. I have the new x-box. I love it, and you know what, I've already seen Dreamgirls. I had to pay a thousand dollars for a really good seat, but it was worth it.
Impressed? I thought you would be. But, surprise. I made the whole thing up. I did this only for demonstration purposes...just to show you how you can save big bucks, as well as precious time waiting in some stupid line, if you simply lie.
There's one more really stupid thing I wanted to talk about, but I'm a little reluctant to do so. I write this little piece for entertainment purposes only (please, no wagering) and there's nothing entertaining about O.J. Simpson, or in Fox TVs decision to air a two-night interview in which Simpson will explain how he would have killed his wife, but, of course, he didn't. Who could conceive of something so stupid.
Actually this goes way beyond stupid. It's about the most immoral thing I've ever heard. Obviously Simpson has no morals or conscience, for that matter. But I'd think there'd be someone at Fox who makes the big decisions who'd not be so stupid to air this. I guess I'm wrong.
It's painfully obvious that Simpson has no regard for his children's feelings, but isn't there someone somewhere who might have the decency to step in and say we're not going to subject his children to this?
Maybe I shouldn't say this, but if you watch that interview on Fox, you'd have to be pretty stupid.
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Maybe those cultural warriors, Fox, who stand up for impeccable morals and by thier programming magically makes everyone else moral by thier mere existance, will team up with Playstation and OJ (Simpson, not the beverage), and make a video game out of it.
Then again, I heard someone got shot while waiting in line for a play station. I guess someone couldn't wait to get home before engaging in violence. Maybe the shooter will plead innocent and years from now have a TV special, "If I did it, here's how..." And they'll just zoom in on the play station...
I was hoping someone would write about the stupidity behind standing in a 48 hour line for a game system. We can always count of you, Steve. The same morons standing in line for The Sony Playstation 3 complain when Walmart only has 2 registers open with 50 customers waiting to check out! Go figure! Anyway, you should be glad that you wrote about his before anyone gave you the idea to do so...then you could not take credit it for it. I am sure we will not think you are crazy for this thought. By the way, I feel much more intelligent knowing that I was totally unaware of the OJ interview. Seems as though not paying attention to current events has actually improved my IQ.
Anonymous and TEN, you both make some good points. Anonymous, of course, has once again, gone me one better, making people wonder why I can't write stuff like that. And TEN, I appreciate you both recognizing and calling attention to the fact that I want credit for everything pithy or funny that's said here. I really do.
By the way, TEN, did you ever stop to think how much your IQ then goes down by reading my blogs.
I guess my blog has kind of an equalizing affect, like the International Date Line. If there were no International Date Line, you could travel into the future, or the past, just by continually going around the world.
Thank goodness the powers that be at Fox had the good taste to cancel the OJ interview (supposed to destroy the tape, too!) and the book is being pulled and will not be sold. Finally some good sense has prevailed in this fiasco.
As for standing in line, there's not much I'd camp out in line for, and certainly not some stupid game. The last time I waited in line for 3 or 4 hours was in the early 80s when the Cabbage Patch dolls were the craze. The store had 50, and my dad, my husband and I counted and there were about 40 people in line ahead of us. When the store opened its doors, several people got out of their cars and ran to catch up with their spouses who had been waiting in line, so guess what? We didn't get our dolls......never again!!!
Darby
Obviously, Darby, when it comes to doing whatever it takes to get a Cabbage Patch doll, it's well worth whatever time and effort must be invested. There are few things in my lifetime that were as vital as those dolls. Maybe a pet rock, but other than that, nothing comes to mind
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