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I really enjoy how businesses are lightening up in the modern era. Stiff collars are being loosened, walls pulled down and the sausage making business revealed with the “we are as human as you” disclaimer working well.

Case in point is an email I got from NetFlorist today. It started thus:

We couldn’t think of anything humorous to say about Proteas and Gerberas
they are fantastic value at R150 and R160 respectively but just not really
funny flowers (unlike strelitzias, for example, which are just hysterical).

So, we thought we’d tell you a joke:

Q: What goes ha, ha, ha … bonk?
A: A man laughing his head off

The good news is that we are much better florists than comedians.

Terrible humour but rather clever as it leaves me feeling familiar and friendly towards what is a large corporate.

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    What caught my eye was this: "they are fantastic value at R150 and R160 respectively"
    I read that, and i thought, "a *fantastic* price, eh? I wanna get me some of them pro-teas..."

    Then i stopped, and thought, "wait - how much is R150? And what would a not-so-fantastic price for pro-teas be? How 'bout an average-run-of-the-mill price? What about a not-good-at-all price? And what would the delta be between that fantastic price of R150 and a terrible, horrible, no-good price? Ten R? Ten *thousand* R? And if i'd thought "ten R" as "ten Rs", how much would i be off once both were converted to dollars?!"

    Finally, i thought, "i don't even know this company - why am i spending so much time estimating currency conversions when for all i know they're practically *famous* for using the word "fantastic" to describe things that aren't..."

    Then i decided to reply, because frankly, all of this was more interesting to me than the joke that followed. Especially the realization that, if you'd thought to put a "Buy Now!" link in your post, i'd have an express shipment of pro-tea on its way to me right now, based only on the "fantastic" rating it received from a company that may well know nothing at all about tea. It's just scary how gullible i am, really...



    BTW: do these comment boxes accept HTML? If so, which tags? If not, why not?
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    Dude, what *are* you smoking? :-D

    Proteas are lovely flowers, unique to South Africa. Pretty expensive normally and R150 (US$20) is a decent price.

    I'll tell them to put in that Buy Now link ;)

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