Oddities

Ok, now this is really cradle-to grave marketing. Today I received an offer from the Gerber Life Insurance Company for funeral expense insurance. Yup, the baby food company has a life insurance division. Talk about getting your customers early and keeping them forever.
From ABC’s The Note comes a column in the Des Moines Register which The Note says won its daily award for ROFL.
If I only recognize one song (really!) on VH1’s 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs, I suppose if it’s number one that counts for something, right? (Link snagged from Off the Kuff).

3 Comments

  1. I wonder what their criteria were for the list. Some of these are, yes, awesomely bad (the Billy Joel one in particular!), but I wonder what their reasoning was behind the inclusion of, say, Broken Wings (bland but inoffensive IMO).

  2. I don’t know what the criteria was; I was too busy being astonished that I couldn’t recognize a thing. I’ve been an NPR listener for 13 years, but I still hear music sometimes! 😉

  3. What were they thinking?

    On the 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever they got some things right. Anything by Michael Bolton belongs on that list, in fact, Michael Bolton needs to be shot for subjecting the world to his whiny screeching. And “Achy Breaky…

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