Category Archives: Quickies

Tuesday Twaddle

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H&R Block in Kansas City, Missouri, visited the widely known and vastly respected No Puffin Perspective on Sunday, about a year after I disclosed my findings in a mildly critical report of the operation of their tax program.

Corporate vanity surfing is becoming more common as companies seek to capitalize on (and protect) their brands. I wonder if the H&R Block visitor was an accountant, a webmaster, or simply someone in the office with time on his or her own hands.

They stayed only a moment and apparently had just one page view, so I’m thinking they may not have learned anything. On the other hand, the H&R Block Newsletter – March Tax Tips arrived by email this morning.

<sigh>

Tuesday Electrifying Twaddle

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Bumper StickerObama Motors has halted production of their campaign centerpiece vehicle, the Chevrolet Volt. 1,500 more workers at the newly refurbished Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant will be unemployed. Turns out buyers don’t want one

Taking a page from China’s marketing strategy (drop the price until people buy things they don’t want), the Administration will raise the tax rebate from $7,500 to $10,000. We expect about 4,300 Volt dealers to be repurposed as Dollar Stores by November.

Purchasing Plans

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I don’t have a thermometer here in South Puffin so I went to wallyworlddotcom to suss out a “Digital Fever Thermometer with Peak Temperature Beeper [and] Last Read Memory.” Just $4.88! In stock to ship to home, just 97¢ shipping (Will not arrive by Dec 24).

Like most shopping sites, wallyworlddotcom also pimps What Was Ultimately Purchased By People Who Viewed This Item:

Wallyworld First Aid Triple Antibiotic Ointment

That just seems odd.

Mercury thermometers require NO BATTERIES.