January 7, 2003: For sale?
Is there anyone at Lycos who can explain this text, found at the bottom of every page on a "Jake Dobkin" search? I mean, shouldn't it be possible to write a basic script that detects if any words in a phrase are items that can be bought and sold, and if not, to substitute a different paid advertisement like "Find your old pal Jake Dobkin at www.classmates.com"? It seems to me that some web companies do not think at all.
Seriousness aside, it brings to mind a quote from the Puerto Rican parade episode of Seinfeld, in which Kramer, posing as the "rich industrialist" H.E. Pennypacker utters the immortal line: "I buy and sell men like myself everyday."
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Obviously what's on sale at ebay.co.uk is your soul.
i prefer to think they are selling little jake dobkin action figures or commemorative figurines. But you are probably right- and it's obviously selling cheap.
Well, here's a link to the personlized action figure company - you can make a Jake Dobkin action figure, but you'll have to pay more for it.
Personalized Action Figures
I must have this. Can you imagine how fresh it would be to have my Buffy action figure and a Jake Dobkin action figure together in one scene?
Dude, you think you're the first person to think of that? That's what these action figures were made for - so nerd boys could pose with their favorite superheros in various situations.
Speaking of Buffy, last night, I liked how Andrew said he was bored..."Episode 1 bored."
Andrew is turning out to be the best character on the show this season. If Buffy gives one more freaking rallying speech to her troops, I may throw up.
I don't know what I'm doing differently, but I don't get the option to buy and sell Jake Dobkin. What I get at the bottom of each page is an invitation to find my match at Matchmaker.com, infinitely more disturbing in this context.
Are you suggesting that Lycos has developed a personlization system so sensitive that it actually configures itself to my egotism?
That, or your arch-nemesis got a job with Lycos and is conducting a subtle, yet effective, mindfuck campaign against you.
Nah- last I heard he was getting ready for a job at Mckinsey...
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