Today is the day that everyone has been waiting for. Everyone went to sleep last night at a leisurely 8 o’clock, with stomachs stuffed with pumpkin pie and turkey, to prepare for the havoc that has already broken forth today. Sadly, I am not a participant (I have an appointment to get an ingrown toenail cut out, hey; someone has to make sure the hospitals make a profit to right?) However, the thing I’m sure of is that at 5:00 this morning, all hell broke loose in what is known as consumer and retail heaven: Black Friday. Black Friday gets it’s name because the day after thanksgiving is generally the day that puts retailers out of debt (the red) and into their profit margins (the black) thus: Black Friday. Here are just a few of the things that might be making stores go black today.
Xbox 360 – Remember that other console…? That one that people can still buy… yeah, that’s the one.
The new Tickle Me Elmo – For some reason people still buy this confounded thing year after year…you can get the same responses from a newborn-child. And those are a lot easier and more fun to get.
Gift Cards – For some reason, people go to the store early to get some great gifts, realize that they are already sold out, and buy gift cards…
Notice, the PS3 and Wii are not on this list. The only people they’re making money for is people selling them on Ebay.
My favorite part of Black Friday is the fact that you can watch on the news people fighting over “must have” items. And it’s sort of funny really. These people want to save an extra 10% on an item that they could just buy next week, and then they end up paying a couple of grand in hospital expenses because they broke their nose fighting over said item. Of course, none of that really matters because all of it’s on a credit card that they’re never going to pay off anyway. Gotta love America!
Myself, I think I’m going shopping tomorrow…
~ The Wonder Waffle
Letterman rocked black friday oh it was so great no I mean great I gave a big huge smile. I got flash drives, a deep fryer (wonderwaffle we will soon commence deep frying experimetns, a blender, a hard drive some 1 gig disks, a black eye i got from the guy from the labeler. Laughs at the people waiting in the best buy line that went aroudn the store and half way into the next store overs parking lot. A lot less sleep then I should have. The mad rush into stapples. If you were not at some shot gun start this morning I do piddy you.
~Letterman
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Friday, November 24, 2006
Thursday, November 16, 2006
A TDB Retrospective
A TDB Retrospective
Last year around this time, there were a few major news events, both nationally and here in Wisconsin. Today, I’m going to go back and take a look at those events in a special post I’m calling “A TDB Retrospective” (for those of you who are too lazy to read the title).
The two topics I am going to discuss are: Xbox 360 Launch, and Phillip Schuth.
Xbox 360 Launch – Around this time last year, we were all enjoying a nice chuckle at Microsoft’s expense. There weren’t enough 360’s to go around and the one’s that did make their way into people’s living rooms were buggier than the potato salad at a Fourth of July picnic. I even went so far as to make this bold statement:
"The worst launch in console history."
Good luck to Billy and all the other folks at Microsoft, I'm getting a PS3!
Well, this year, I am forced to resend that statement. I don’t believe I’ll be getting a PS3, I guess I’m a Microsoft fanboy this season. There are many reasons, but the main reason is cost. I don’t want to pay $600 for a console that I can’t even use most of the features of right now. Maybe in the future when I have a Hi-Def monitor…but why spend money now on something you don’t need now. Spend money later on something you need later.
Phillip Schuth – This is the man who put LaCrosse, Wisconsin on the map for freezing his dead mother in his basement deep freeze for months. As it turned out, he was doing it because he thought people would think he killed her (I wonder why…?) and he was collecting her social security checks. She was discovered after a complaint by someone who he shot at led to a search of his house. He is currently serving jail time I believe. However, there was one good thing about this situation: T-Shirts like this:
“My mom is cooler than your mom.”
And
“What do you have in your freezer?”
Ahh, the good times.
Well, that concludes my TDB Retrospective for today. I’d like to take this moment to let you know about the TDB podcast at audio.xanga.com/the_daily_beef or for download at www.myspace.com/tdbpodcast. Check out our myspace profile at www.myspace.com/the_daily_beef and you can email us at thedailybeef@gmail.com.
Wow, I’m writing this in Word and it’s onto it’s second page. This is defiantly one of my longer posts…
Waffle out-
~ The Wonder Waffle
www.xanga.com/the_daily_beef
Last year around this time, there were a few major news events, both nationally and here in Wisconsin. Today, I’m going to go back and take a look at those events in a special post I’m calling “A TDB Retrospective” (for those of you who are too lazy to read the title).
The two topics I am going to discuss are: Xbox 360 Launch, and Phillip Schuth.
Xbox 360 Launch – Around this time last year, we were all enjoying a nice chuckle at Microsoft’s expense. There weren’t enough 360’s to go around and the one’s that did make their way into people’s living rooms were buggier than the potato salad at a Fourth of July picnic. I even went so far as to make this bold statement:
"The worst launch in console history."
Good luck to Billy and all the other folks at Microsoft, I'm getting a PS3!
Well, this year, I am forced to resend that statement. I don’t believe I’ll be getting a PS3, I guess I’m a Microsoft fanboy this season. There are many reasons, but the main reason is cost. I don’t want to pay $600 for a console that I can’t even use most of the features of right now. Maybe in the future when I have a Hi-Def monitor…but why spend money now on something you don’t need now. Spend money later on something you need later.
Phillip Schuth – This is the man who put LaCrosse, Wisconsin on the map for freezing his dead mother in his basement deep freeze for months. As it turned out, he was doing it because he thought people would think he killed her (I wonder why…?) and he was collecting her social security checks. She was discovered after a complaint by someone who he shot at led to a search of his house. He is currently serving jail time I believe. However, there was one good thing about this situation: T-Shirts like this:
“My mom is cooler than your mom.”
And
“What do you have in your freezer?”
Ahh, the good times.
Well, that concludes my TDB Retrospective for today. I’d like to take this moment to let you know about the TDB podcast at audio.xanga.com/the_daily_beef or for download at www.myspace.com/tdbpodcast. Check out our myspace profile at www.myspace.com/the_daily_beef and you can email us at thedailybeef@gmail.com.
Wow, I’m writing this in Word and it’s onto it’s second page. This is defiantly one of my longer posts…
Waffle out-
~ The Wonder Waffle
www.xanga.com/the_daily_beef
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