Like bringing pasties to Portland
Peter Sagal of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! addressed a full house last night at the Schnitz (paraphrased): "Look at all of you out there. You've spent your money, gotten dressed up in your finest fleece, and come down to watch the taping of a radio show. You really need a major league baseball team in this city." After someone in the balcony referenced Sagal's very bald pate, the radio host spent the rest of the night impugning our city, pointing out our largest strip-club-to-resident ratio in the world and that there would be no virgins left to sacrifice to the Mount Tabor volcano. And we loved it. The full show will be available online in a few days.Weapons and democrats: two audio stories
Andrea Carlisle can't find her WMDs (audio): "You'd think I would've put those weapons of mass destruction away very carefully, in bubble wrap at least." And Aaron Freeman opines that picking a Democratic candidate for 2004 is like dating (audio): "Al Sharpton is really cute and was practically raised by James Brown. Can you imagine an inaugural party hosted by the Godfather of Soul? Owww! Papa's got a brand-new cabinet! But, Sharpton is what Blanche DuBois said of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire: 'A man to go out with once, twice, three times if you've the devil in you, but to marry and bring home to your family? Never."This week's odd search queries
Google and its ilk sent people with the following queries to my site this week:- cross dressing your little brother
- marfy design 2003
- define the word vicariously
- pictures of hitler's mother
- who sang climb every mountain in the sound of music
- legs in the air
- design my own fake id
- photos of clothes a 42 year old woman should wear
User testing of Wal-Mart customers
Why is Wal-Mart so phenomenally successful? One reason is detailed user profiling and that elusive ability to connect data trends to real-life reasons. Case in point: Ant and roach poison was flying off the shelves in most of the country last year, with the bizarre exception of Minnesota. There, no one would buy the stuff. In interviewing customers, Wal-Mart learned that to Minnesotans, owning a can of roach killer represented slovenly housekeeping. So, did Wal-Mart pull the product? No, it convinced the manufacturer to remove all pictures of insects from the cans in that state. Suddenly the product appeared more socially acceptable, and sales soared.
Related quote: One Wal-Mart representative said he could tell you how many cans of chili were purchased in the last hour, divided by state. (From NPR's series on the social and economic impact of Wal-Mart.)
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