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Episode 202 – Marketing Ploys

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Supposedly, these are actual advertisements that have appeared in papers across the country.

Lost: small apricot poodle. Reward. Neutered. Like one of the family.

Dinner Special — Turkey $2.35; Chicken or Beef $2.25; Children $2.00.

For sale: an antique desk suitable for a lady with thick legs and large drawers.

Four-poster bed, 101 years old. Perfect for antique lover.

Now is your chance to have your ears pierced and get an extra pair to take home, too.

We do not tear your clothing with machinery. We do it carefully by hand

Mixing bowl set designed to please a cook with round bottom for efficient beating.

Semi-Annual after-Christmas Sale.

And now, the Superstore–unequaled in size, unmatched in variety, unrivaled inconvenience.

We will oil your sewing machine and adjust tension in your home for $1.00.

Episode 201 – Buzzwords

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Some buzzwords are reviled, despised, mocked, and hated by people in and outside the world of business. Maybe because…

They say: Extensive effort is being applied on a fresh approach to the problem.

They mean: The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.

They mean:  We just hired three new guys; we’ll let them kick it around for a while.

They say: Preliminary operational tests are inconclusive       

They say: The entire concept will have to be abandoned         

They mean: The only guy who understood the thing quit.

Episode 200 – We’re baaaaaack. With Cheese.

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Friday, October 13, hell will officially freeze over as Kat and Joe hit the airwaves again with a new improved version of KatSoup. Details to come.

And here we are, talking about CHEESE:

Curious Sayings/Words
From wikipedia  

The moon is made of green cheese   The Moon is made of green cheese” is a statement referring to a fanciful belief that the Moon is composed of cheese. In its original formulation as a proverb and metaphor for credulity with roots in fable, this refers to the perception of a simpleton who sees a reflection of the Moon in water and mistakes it for a round cheese wheel.

It is widespread as a folkloric motif among many of the world’s cultures, and the notion has also found its way into children’s folklore and modern popular culture.

The Scottish tale of the wolf fishing with his tail for the moon reflection is one such iteration.

“The Tale of the Fox’s Tail”  
One day the wolf and the fox were out together, and they stole a dish of crowdie. Now the wolf was the biggest beast of the two, and he had a long tail like a greyhound and great teeth. The fox was afraid of him and did not dare to say a word when the wolf ate most of the crowdie and left only a little at the bottom of the dish for him, but he determined to punish him for it; so the next night when they were out together the fox said,

“I smell a very nice cheese, and (pointing to the moonshine on the ice) there it is too.”  

“And how will you get it?” said the wolf.  

“Well, stop you here till I see if the farmer is asleep, and if you keep your tail on it, nobody will see you or know that it is there. Keep it steady. I may be some time coming back.”  

So the wolf lay down and laid his tail on the moonshine in the ice, and kept it for an hour till it was fast (definition=stuck).   Then the fox, who had been watching him, ran to the farmer and said, “The wolf is there; he will eat up the children — the wolf! the wolf!”  

Then the farmer and his wife came out with sticks to kill the wolf, but the wolf ran off leaving his tail behind him, and that’s why the wolf is stumpy-tailed to this day, though the fox has a long brushy tail.  

Episode 109 – Broadway

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Theatrical Logic

In is down, down is front. Out is up, up is back. Off is out, on is in. And of course, left is right and right is left. A drop shouldn’t and a ‘block and fall’ does neither. A prop doesn’t and a cove has no water. Tripping is OK. A running crew rarely gets anywhere . A purchase line buys you nothing. A trap will not catch anything. A gridiron has nothing to do with football. Strike is work (in fact, a lot of work). And a green room, thank God, usually isn’t.

Now that you’re fully versed in theatrical terms, break a leg.  But not really.

Episode 106 – Amazon

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Amazon Reviews

Book – Where is Baby’s Belly Button — Do NOT buy this book, you can see the ending right in the cover! – This book is completely misleading. The entire plot revolves around finding a baby’s belly button. The titles makes this clear from the beginning. However, there is no mystery. There is no twist. Baby’s belly button is right where it  is supplosed to be, on baby’s stomach. Right where it clearly show you it is on the COVER OF THE BOOK.

Episode 104 – Isms & Ologies

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Melissopalynology (Me-Liss-o-pal-en-ol-ogy)

It’s not the study of a girl named Melissa. For those of you who have believed all these years that Winnie the Pooh was just a bear with a seriously disturbing honey addiction, it turns out, he’s just a bear with a seriously disturbing AND career-oriented honey addiction. Nothing wrong with that at all.