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| Comic #178: The Importance of Lines |
February 26, 2007 Ok, I guess I really didn't have an idea where the vacuum thing was going and it ended up here. Funny how things happen like that. The whole reason I put a vacuum in the comic was because of an infomercial I saw. Judge Judy was supposed to be on, but there was an infomercial on Oreck vacuum cleaners instead, and I was far to lazy to get up and change the channel. Anyway, they were trying really hard to sell these $700 vacuums by showing people that you could run them over with a truck. (Shoot, I'd rather keep the $700 and go over my floors with a piece of scotch tape.) Anywho, near the end of the commercial, they show a guy who lived in New Orleans and had his house completely destroyed by hurricane Katrina. Everything of his was gone... except his Oreck! The guy found it down the street, still in one piece. He later turned it on to show that it still worked. Now let me just say that I had my tv turned down pretty low, but when this guy turned on the vacuum that had been through hurricane Katrina, it was so loud the windows rattled and it made the dogs bark! And the guy shouts over the vacuum at the top of his lungs, "SEE? IT'S GOOD AS NEW!!" Sure, it's good as new. If you don't mind going deaf every time you vacuum your living room. At the end of the commercial I was considering buying one. Not for vacuuming the floors with, but for storing my important documents and valuables in. I'll bet it could get hit with a nuclear bomb and still be in one piece. |