Perfect It Aint

As the title indicates, perfect it aint. I'll rant and rave, maybe even curse once in a while. You are welcome to join me with your comments. At worst I'll just tear out the rest of my hair. At best, I may agree with you. Or maybe I'll just ignore it, because you know, perfect it aint!

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Retired, Financial and Management specialist, lived all over country, but for some reason, decided to retire to West Virginia (that's the new one, not the Richmond one). Please note that all material appearing on this blog is covered under my own personal copyright as creator, except those items appearing in the Comments that do not appear under the screen name of Tanstaafl or are attributed to others by citation. No license is intended or given to copy or redistribute anything appearing in this blog unless written permission is first obtained from the author.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

TICK TOCK TICKS TOCKS, SLAM BANG, GRAB YOUR SOCKS

OK. I'm ticked off again.

Folks.

There aint no such thing as a 'free gift.'

Unless you want to wallow in redundancy, again.

By definition, a gift is free.

Saying 'free gift' is akin to saying 'wet shower' or 'little shrimp.'

It's redundant, again.

All over television and radio broadcasts, magazines, newspapers, you name it, I see or hear 'free gift.' Call this number for your 'free gift.' Write to this address for your 'free gift.' Go to this website for your 'free gift.'

Children, I must tell you there aint no such thing as a 'free gift' and there aint no such thing as a free lunch. Robert Heinlein told us that years ago, and it aint changed a whit.


HOOT HOOT HOOT

1 Comments:

Blogger kelsie said...

Yeah my "free gift" I am supposed to get for signing with my satellite provider is actually going to cost me $30 for shipping and handling. The thing is, I don't have to send in the certificate to get it. Not to mention that it would cost me a lot more to get a video camera someplace else.

Still debating......

12:17 PM, August 25, 2007  

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