By Frank B. on August 6, 2010
Dear Dr Boscoe, I am contacting you in regards to the *email sent to you yesterday which implied you had previously published in BioMed Central’s Journal of Translational Medicine. Please disregard this email and accept my apologies for any confusion and inconvenience this may have caused you. This email was sent in error and was […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged confusion and inconvenience, meta
By Jack Silbert on January 23, 2010
Hi Doctor Schneider! Or is it Doctor “Shneider”? Your email address in my in-box indicated the former, but your message steers me toward the latter: Did you receive the e-mail which I sent to you recently (copied here-below)?Please confirm since I have had problems lately with emails intercepted by spam-filters set too high.Cordially, Marc Shneider, […]
Posted in satire | Tagged meta, spam
By Jack Silbert on April 15, 2009
I was at baggage claim at Newark Liberty International Jingleheimer-Schmidt Airport, and I thought to myself, “That’s an amusing sign. I shall photograph it and post it on the blog.” For in its listing of oversized items that could be claimed elsewhere, they’d duct-taped over the first item. And I continued to think, but this […]
Posted in anecdotes | Tagged airport security, baggage claim, meta, photography, super powers
By Jack Silbert on March 24, 2009
But come on—that old salt from Gorton’s sitting directly across from the salty little Morton miss, forming a perfect isosceles triangle with that Planters’ nut-job? Something vaguely Last Supper-ish about it, if you ask me. Oh, and they’re all having a great laugh at my expense! Well, we’ll just see who laughs last, advertising mascots. […]
Posted in satire | Tagged advertising, Christ figures, conspiracy theories, meta, salt
By Jack Silbert on March 21, 2009
I’ve become rather adept at viewing TV shows that I’ve recorded on the DVR. I’ll zip through commercials at the two-little-triangles speed, or if I’m in a big hurry, three little triangles. So it’s all the more impressive when an advertisement catches my eye, forcing me to be kind (to sponsors), rewind, and watch at […]
Posted in opinion | Tagged advertising, health, meta, salt
By Jack Silbert on February 8, 2009
We’ve had a bit of snow and ice here in the Northeast of late, so there’s a container of rock salt inside my apartment building. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that the manufacturer was the Morton company. What with their association with salt and all. I looked at the label and thought, “Oh, […]
Posted in opinion | Tagged advertising, meta, salt
By Jack Silbert on January 29, 2009
If a respectable record label will donate 5 dollars to a wonderful animal-rescue organization, Best Friends Animal Society, and all I have to do is post a link to download the new single from the excellent Neko Case, who am I to say no?
Posted in opinion | Tagged good causes, meta, Pets, unpopular music
By Jack Silbert on July 15, 2008
…when real estate offices are available for lease.
Posted in opinion | Tagged Hoboken, meta, real estate
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