humanly raised family farm meats

[Jonathan Lighter]

How about the Ally Bank commercial (one of a series) in which the greedy and
mendacious developmental psychologist (I guess that's what he is) pretends
to a little girl that he's the slave of a robotic phone-answering doll that
looks just like him?

Why shouldn't they charge extra for allowing us access to a human being?
Human beings are busy people and, in the long run, more expensive than
robots to keep on the job. It's simple fairness that customers should help
defray the cost of wetware, especially public-contact wetware.

Not satire, prophecy.

JL

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net>wrote:

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> A commercial for one of the persoanl injury law firms around here features
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> testimonial from a woman who says her attorney is not only a lawyer, but
> also a human being. I wonder if she pays extra for that.
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> > On a page accessed via the Gloucester Stage web site, the Alchemy
> > Cafe and Bistro advertises -- or is advertised -- as having "humanly
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> > I prefer meats raised by extraterrestrial humanoids myself.
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