Anybody Watch Those Shopping Networks?

[JSngry]

My daughter does, and all I can say is....

Whole 'nother world...

[couw]

you should see, or rather hear, the translated version

[AfricaBrass]

My mom and my wife were really into the Suzanne Sommers jewelry for a while. It was pretty frightening and EXPENSIVE.

I was clicking through the channels the other day and saw Jessica Simpson hawking some stuff.

My favorite is Esteban. I didn't know Zorro played guitar.

[JSngry]

I mean, I'm puttering around the house this morning getting ready for a road trip this afternoon, and HSN is on (my daughter watches either it or the Today show while getting ready for school, and I just left it on to have some noise going). There's these PERKY women on a VERY biright-lit set selling adjustable drawer dividers, and one of them says, "You buy it, and you use it. You use it, and you SAVE TIME. You'll always know where all your disposable razors are!" I'm all like, "Wow, why don't you just put them in the same place every time? That works." But apparently mine is an unpopular and/or naive point of view, because these things are selling like crazy!

Whole 'nother world...

Edited February 11, 2005 by JSngry

[Jim Alfredson]

There's a hilarious video floating around the internet of some dude on the HSN hawking these cheap swords. They are real swords, real metal, but really cheap. He's saying all this stuff about how great they are, stainless steel, strong, stay sharp forever, and all this stuff, and he starts whacking the sword broadside on the table.

All of a sudden, the blade cracks in half and flies right into him and stabs him in the stomach! He falls behind the table, so you can't see him, but you just here him saying, "Oh man... oh man.... it got me. Oh that hurts.... guys? Oh, that hurts. It really got me."

Classic.

[WD45]

My mom and my wife were really into the Suzanne Sommers jewelry for a while. It was pretty frightening and EXPENSIVE.

I was clicking through the channels the other day and saw Jessica Simpson hawking some stuff.

My favorite is Esteban. I didn't know Zorro played guitar.

Segovia taught Esteban, I think. I will buy anything from someone who was taught by Segovia...

They should have Cuscuna on there hawking Mosaics.

[JSngry]

Now there's some lady on selling skin-care products. She's talking about "resurfacing your skin". I'm allegic to asphalt...

Thank goodness, the alarm just went off in the other room (yeah, I'm supposed to be sleeping, because I'm driving, but oh well...). It's KNTU & it sounds like it's Tina Brooks w/Jimmy Smith.

Finally, something that I can relate to.

[Man with the Golden Arm]

a friend of mine went on there with a product called "The Dirt B@ll". a rubber ball on a stick that you put a little micro fiber shower cap onto and spray with solution to help get scuffs off the floor and clean around tubs and such. SILLY! but he actually sold these things!! the hoops he had to jump thru to get on that show. he was ready to strangle this little queer eye for the straight guy host that kept talking over him the whole time.

truly a whole nuther world.... but, hey, if your average viewer ever tuned in here...

my mother watches that stuff as well. actually called to ask me about Chris Botti!!!! fer god sakes i told her "lets just say he's no Wynton Marsalis!!!"

[AfricaBrass]

My mom and my wife were really into the Suzanne Sommers jewelry for a while. It was pretty frightening and EXPENSIVE. 

I was clicking through the channels the other day and saw Jessica Simpson hawking some stuff. 

My favorite is Esteban. I didn't know Zorro played guitar. 

Segovia taught Esteban, I think. I will buy anything from someone who was taught by Segovia...

They should have Cuscuna on there hawking Mosaics.

That would be classic. He might be able to move a lot of those Four Freshmen sets.

Esteban really plays up the Segovia connection. From what I've read, Esteban did follow Segovia around and met him, but he doesn't seem to have been held in the high esteem by Segovia that Esteban maintains.

I don't care... he's frickin' Zorro!

If he makes people happy then that's cool with me, but there's no way I'm going to buy one of his guitars he's hawking. He compares those things to expensive Martin guitars and there really is no comparison.

If he was smart, he'd put a giant Z on the faces of his guitars Zorro style. That make them much cooler to me.

[AfricaBrass]

There's a hilarious video floating around the internet of some dude on the HSN hawking these cheap swords. They are real swords, real metal, but really cheap. He's saying all this stuff about how great they are, stainless steel, strong, stay sharp forever, and all this stuff, and he starts whacking the sword broadside on the table.

All of a sudden, the blade cracks in half and flies right into him and stabs him in the stomach! He falls behind the table, so you can't see him, but you just here him saying, "Oh man... oh man.... it got me. Oh that hurts.... guys? Oh, that hurts. It really got me."

Classic.

I have to find that video!!!!

[JSngry]

truly a whole nuther world.... but, hey, if your average viewer ever tuned in here...

Well, yeah, exactly.

Amazing, really, how people you might know, or work with, or live next door to, or, as with my daughter, share a house with, can lead lives so totally removed from each other's and still function as a society.

I mean, if somebody offered to resurface MY face, I'd take it personal. Yet, there's thousands of people on the phone lines to get it one to them. And if some of them were to hear Jimmy Smith and Tina Brooks come on the alarm radio, they'd probably think they were being attacked or something.

Life. What a trip it is.