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[MurphOnMillerAve]

Oh, I get it. It's all phony. Pretend products. Cute.
Hardeeharhar.

[webenda]

Ad agency Publicis in São Paulo, Brazil created a fictional line of “educative toys for badly behaved kids” which were for an episode of the reality TV show Super Nanny. Empty boxes of these these fictional “Control Toys” (which included the “Lovely Strait jacket,” and the “Funny Cage”) were placed on toy store shelves in Brazil to capture the attention of parents. The back of the boxes read, “There are better ways to discipline your child. Watch Super Nanny.”

Reference: http://www.publicis.com.br/

Super Nanny is available on YouTube. Don't know which episode used these Control Toys.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I wonder if it comes with some kind of gag..........

That's included the next level up in the bondage series of toys,

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Just strikes me as funny - tuna squeezing - could be a new Olympic sport......

[rogruth]

You can do that with the can lid and save some money.
Oh. But then you would be depriving others from making a few cents.

[webenda]

You can do that with the can lid and save some money.

How unprofessional... using the can lid. That made in China, cheap plastic gadget looks much more professional.

Here is a professional tuna press:

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Can double as a laminating press or for holding O-Scale windows in place while glue sets up.

[webenda]

Grammar: Check!
Spelling: Check!
Nothing wrong with that sign.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That bike has a high quality look to it; solid and dependable .
Murph

[webenda]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

You have me theorizing about what letters are hidden behind that tree trunk.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

You have me theorizing about what letters are hidden behind that tree trunk.

You can choose from ~26 +/- a few...........but it's the lad out front and his pose that makes the picture,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I dunno - he seemed superfluous to me, somebody who wandered by at the moment and got shoved into the frame.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I dunno - he seemed superfluous to me, somebody who wandered by at the moment and got shoved into the frame.

Which is in part why it's humorous; his not being aware of his participation in the scene....

Then again.........maybe just waiting for his pager to go off telling he's next in line.....

Or he's just waiting for his man, with $26 in his hand, up to Lexington 125......

[Big Jim]

BEST LAWYER / INSURANCE STORY OF THE YEAR, DECADE AND POSSIBLY THE CENTURY...

This actually took place in Charlotte, North Carolina.

A lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire.

Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars, the lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost 'in a series of
small fires.'

The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion.

The lawyer sued and WON!
(Stay with me.)

Delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous. The judge stated nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company, in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable 'fire' and was obligated to pay the claim.

Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the cigars that perished in the 'fires.'

NOW FOR THE BEST PART...

After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!! With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.

This true story won First Place in last year's Criminal Lawyers Awards contest.