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- From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
- Newsgroups: alt.tv.infomercials
- Subject: Re: Infomercial Favorites
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 03:37:04 GMT
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- I hate to admit it but I enjoy watching the show pitching hand hammered
- woks. I don't exactly know why, but the host grabs my attention.
- I guess I like the stream of facts he gives out, like how a shortage
- of cooking fuel in densely populated China led to quick, meal-in-a-bowl
- cooking and that the indents from the hammer blows provide the
- required retaining friction for pulling up individual ingredients. It's
- just like a PBS documentary to me. BTW, I never think of buying the junk.
-
- On the laugh side, whenever I come across "you too can make millions
- in wireless cable" I shout back "if there is so much easy money to
- be made why the f*** arn't you out living the good life and not making
- TV pitches about it?" I liked the part I scanned through where this
- guy was explaining that the reason banks etc. arn't providing the
- funding is because they have made loans to the existing cable companies
- and as such wish to keep them as monopolies--hence this great opportuinty
- for the small investor to step in. As though banks don't give loans
- to both Ford and GM or United and American or CBS and NBC. Like banks
- stop giving out construction loans because more houses means lower
- home prices and smaller home mortgages.
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