Tuesday, 19 February 2008

2006_05_07_archive



It's All a Dream

Golf equipment and personal grooming products have a great deal in

common. Golf clubs, lipstick, golf balls, eye liner, mascara, male

pattern baldness remedies, putters, tooth whiteners, wrinkle removers,

wedges, even boob jobs -- are all marketed alike.

The manufacturers sell dreams, not products. Just dreams. Nothing

more.

They try to hoodwink us into believing their new golf clubs will help

us win a club championship or their new eye liner will get us "Mr.

Right."

It's merely an illusion.

If you butcher golf courses with the crummy clubs in the back of your

Chevy pickup, you'll gum-up just as many shots with the clubs in the

slick full color ad.

If you are as bald as a boulder and apply the heavily-advertised

miracle hair restorer with a spatula you have as much chance of

growing curls as soy beans.

If you are uglier than a prune, and guys in a singles bar ignore you

at two in the morning after downing a pail of vodka you will still be

dateless if you apply the new, sexy eyeliner with a roller. You can

prance through a men's prison batting your eyes, wiggling your ass,


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