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Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 2 years ago.
...bigger is not always betterA while ago, I was asked to run to the store to pick up a few items for an upcoming family dinner. More specifically, I was told that we needed a soup bone for use in a soup of all things.While shopping for the soup bone, it ...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 2 years ago.
I mean seriously, it's everywhere. You really have to hand it to the "Got Milk" people. Since the advertising campaign's inception back in 1993, the California Milk Processor Board has absolutely hit it out of the advertising agency, so to speak. How man...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 2 years ago.
That is until we take it too farAround the world, local cities and communities work hard to promote themselves in order to attract tourists. It's like, Nashville has country music, Dallas has all things cowboys, Los Angeles has showbiz, Chicago has taxes,...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
Here is the latest sighting It's still out there. The dreaded backwards capital "N". As was first chronicled in MMeM, Vol. 4 Issue 3, it is harder to properly display a capital "N" than one might think.Here is the latest sighting...Interestingly enoug...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
...people have gotten passports fasterthan that. So, I just finished a mail-in rebate on a recently purchased piece of merchandise. What a sense of accomplishment!!! After that, I'm ready to apply for graduate school, the GMAT, or maybe even law school...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
...it looks like it's not your fence. This is a HUGE pet peeve. Why do some people put their fences up "backwards" Here we have a nice wooden fence. It is put up correctly.Next is an example of a fence that "goes both ways". This is perfectly accepta...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
I did what any fine upstanding citizen would doLook, I tried flagging her down. I pulled up beside her in the parking lot and tried to get her attention.I honked.I flashed my lights.Finally, I did what any fine upstanding citizen would do.I whipped out m...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
...do we really need to do more to make shopping carts inoperableThis sign was recently discovered in a Walgreens parking lot. I'm not sure what is more disturbing, the fact that shopping carts get stolen from Walgreens or the fact that they are so val...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
...not many things turn my frown upside downAfter such an epic collapse of the Cubs, not many things turn my frown upside down. I mean, seriously, the best record in the national league and you get swept in the first round of the playoffs for the 2nd y...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
Public transportation is so much better for the environment.No but seriously, it's better but it's not perfect either. Cause, like, my car... doesn't do that.
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
When you really look at the numbers it's a no-brainer.Look, it's no secret that $4 a gallon gasoline is the pits. It goes without saying that filling up a car today is a real hardship.And, this hardship is particularly difficult in the spread-out Midwes...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
There are poor choices of words, and then there is this. There is a phenomenon that occurs more often than one might think. It happens when you see a local merchant advertising something on their store front sign. We've all received the chain emails showi...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
I'm pretty sure I heard angels singing... Acouple of months ago I was walking through Baltimore/Washington International Airport on business. My flight had just landed and I was feeling a bit hungry but nothing in the terminal looked affordable or even te...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
I say bring it ...on non-windy daysThere is a great injustice that is going un-checked in American society today. It is gender discrimination and it's time that someone shined a light on this horrible miscarriage of justice and inequality.I'm speaking of ...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
I say bring it ...on non-windy daysThere is a great injustice that is going un-checked in American society today. It is gender discrimination and it's time that someone shined a light on this horrible miscarriage of justice and inequality.I'm speaking of ...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
NOW HIRING 1O GRILL HELPYou could make the argument that they are using the backwards number "1" as a letter "T".However, the sign then reads "NOW HIRING TO GRILL HELP". Does that advertisement really pull in the applicants Surely they are hiring peopl...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
I would rather have five pennies than one nickelAnnouncing the motion to get rid of the U.S. 5 cent piece, otherwise known as, the nickel. The nickel. Are you kidding me This stupid thing is bigger than a dime yet is worth less than a dime. It's the fatt...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
Do I do the guy-nod, or just wave my hand Retail. Oh how I hate thee. First off, "rewards Programs". "Rewards Programs" are really corporate ways of asking, "Can we track everything you purchase EVER and then sell your demographic information with sp...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
I am going to have an aneurism...or run for office Let me get this straight. I do yard work and trim a bunch of bushes and trees. I have trimmings left over after doing all of this work. Now, I can't burn this waste because of well, you know, global wa...
Posted by Midwest Meditations eMagazine 3 years ago.
...He is wearing sunglasses Here we have a family of four riding in a sport utility vehicle. They have a roof, four doors, and bumpers.They have driver and passenger side air bags.They have side curtain air bags.They have anti-lock brakes.They are all w...
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