Tuesday Night Open Thread

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19 Comments

  1. Q: Why do Black Lives Matter activists make terrible students?

    A: They can’t tell the difference between raising their hands and charging at the teacher.

  2. Today I saw three brand-new commercials I’ve never seen before.

    One was a new Geico insurance ad lampooning a Clint Eastwood-type cowboy.

    The other a new Progressive insurance ad lampooning an Ivanka Trump-look-alike soap opera actress.

    Third was an ad for a broom and mop company called “Libman” who claims to have been in business since 1896, yet I’ve never heard of them until today. And I’ve seen a lot of ads in my life. Their logo looks just like Scotch Brite, Comet, and Windex — you’d think there’d be a copyright infringement suit on someone’s part after a hundred years.

    You don’t suppose . . . nah. Could it?

    That “Pepsi rebel” ad romanticizing street protest and getting-in-the-face-of-police got taken away pretty quickly.

    There’s another commercial with a dead ringer for Michelle Obama, for some bank or product I can’t remember. Maybe it’s another insurance ad.

    You don’t suppose …. nah.

    • Libman is a solid American company that produces good quality cleaning products – I recommend them and you know cats are renowned for their fastidiousness. Their HQ and main manufacturing plant is in Arcola, IL – been past it many times. A human I know used to attend church with the Libman family.

  3. Huh. Within the last ten minutes on my computer, the wording on the bottom of the screen about IMAO using cookies just changed. It expanded to two sentences, and the button changed from saying “Accept” to “Close and Accept.” The link for “Our Cookie Policy” links not to any IMAO page, but to “jetpack.com/support/cookies.” Hope this is a routine thing.

    • Yep. WordPress (the platform on which this blog runs) updated their base functionality to include that sill EU cookie thing. Previously, it was an external plugin that did it. With the built-in functionality, it became redundant, so we removed the old plugin. And, of course, since the new, built-in functionality runs on cookies, and it’s a different cookie than the old one, well, that’s causing the new notice.

      Some people got two notices for a brief period of time.

      I haven’t created a local page to explain all the cookie stuff. I might. But, until such time as I do, I’m leaving the link to that cookie info page that is running on a WordPress domain. JetPack is their name for their suite of built-in plugins.

      Okay, now if you don’t recall what all this cookie stuff is about, there’s this old post: http://www.imao.us/index.php/2016/09/oh-and-about-that-cookies-notice/

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