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"No joke - you could be a winner!"
winnoch2 - Impostair Syndromair Extraordinaire Started conversation Apr 8, 2009
I thought such drivel was the preserve of prawn sites (I was told
), but now Yahoo mail has one of those stupid banner ads that flashes up with the most annoying phrase in advertising. "No joke ....!"
Oh and just in case you have any doubts that they are addressing you personaly, there is the killer line "You are online at "
Wow how do they know what time I'm online - It must be me who's won! 
There must be people who click on this rubbish or they wouldn't continue to advertise. My question is why are there such stupid people out there
Stop the world I want off
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Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Apr 8, 2009
Worrying, aint it?
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Apr 8, 2009
"My question is why are there such stupid people out there"
Someone has to populated the other half of the bell curve 
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Apr 8, 2009
.. yes, and the reason these ads, and spam as well, is still around in huge amounts is that the other half of the bell curve responds to it .. so there are actually people who buy pron, bigger 
s, or bigger .. aahh.. whatever ..
think about this next time you're in a train, metro, bus.. half of the people surrounding you are very likely to ..
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Apr 8, 2009
TO be fair, it's only a hundredth of all those people who ctually will, but if 2000 people see it, that's 10 taken in, which is all they need.
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Apr 8, 2009
and those 10 are the people next to you in the bus
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Apr 8, 2009
My maths teacher would have given me very bad marks if I had told him that one hundredth of 2,000 is ten. 
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winnoch2 - Impostair Syndromair Extraordinaire Posted Apr 8, 2009
It's scary and depressing in equal measure. Like the creationists amongst us. Unfortunately we live in a society that celebrates and condones stupidity, so I reckon these ads will be around for the foreseeable future
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Apr 8, 2009
I was starting on the pre-stated principle that it was the lower half of the bell-curve.
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cornflake queen Posted Apr 9, 2009
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One per cent of 2000 equals 10 
Makes me wonder which half of the bell-curve we're talking about
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Apr 9, 2009
no, half the bell curve will be half the population, so 1000. And 10% of that is 100.
I knew what you meant Bob
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Apr 9, 2009
Just like the "meet girls from your area" ones, who have the same nicknames and pictures no matter where they're allegedly from
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- 1: winnoch2 - Impostair Syndromair Extraordinaire (Apr 8, 2009)
- 2: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Apr 8, 2009)
- 3: IctoanAWEWawi (Apr 8, 2009)
- 4: Hapi - Hippo #5 (Apr 8, 2009)
- 5: Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk (Apr 8, 2009)
- 6: Hapi - Hippo #5 (Apr 8, 2009)
- 7: aka Bel - A87832164 (Apr 8, 2009)
- 8: winnoch2 - Impostair Syndromair Extraordinaire (Apr 8, 2009)
- 9: Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk (Apr 8, 2009)
- 10: cornflake queen (Apr 9, 2009)
- 11: IctoanAWEWawi (Apr 9, 2009)
- 12: Malabarista - now with added pony (Apr 9, 2009)
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