Promoting Your Blog
After photographing the traffic cone the other day, my eye was drawn to a Post-It note affixed to the light pole. The Post-It note advertised Proscar® (finasteride), currently the leading medication to shrink one's prostate. There is questionable marketing value for any drug that appears to be promoting scarring, but I believe the name was a portmanteau formation of PROSTATE + NASCAR. Written on the Post-It note in shaky, loopy cursive was the message: "Go to allreligions.blogspot.com. You will be benefitted (sic)".
Unfortunately, I failed to take a close-up photograph, and the blog name that I remembered does not seem to exist. When I went back the Post-It note was gone. I believe they are only rated for 5 mph wind shear, enough to handle most office environments, but not the outdoors.
Overall, an unsuccessful promotional effort in so many ways.
Labels: meta, portmanteaus, wind shear
posted by frank b. at
4:36 AM
4 Comments:
Proscar. How do you think it's pronounced? if it's "pro-scar", that's odd, and if it's "pro-scare" isn't that even worse?
Because it doesn't look like Prostate- Care
I'm going to pronounce it like Proscar the Grouch.
Meanwhile, over at allreligions.blogspot.com, Badhshah promised the "ultimate truth to mankind," but only made one post, on September 6, 2006. In the industry, this is known as a textbook case of "one's mouth writing a check that one's ass can't cash." However, if his Post-It stayed stuck for nearly two years, perhaps Badhshah was onto something.
Hmm, the first time I tried it I got a "not found" error. Clearly, there can only be a divine explanation.
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