I dislike advertising as well but, as stated, it is necessary for economic reasons. Indeed, it serves an important purpose; I would HATE to pay to use Yahoo! mail .

Arcon - I'm a secret ginger beer drinker .

but i do the Shake'n'Vac and put the freshness back..

Just be happy that you dont have ads broadcast to your dreams...

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I used to be a guy called Cosmic Viator

Some ads are funny, until you see them too much. we have a lot of them here too, but I've noticed that American ads usually have nothing to do with the properties of the advertized product (heck, now locals are using this strategy for political ads [we're having parliament elections, which I can hardly understand). I was also surprised to hear that in the US (well, at least in Florida) the advertisement law stating that you can only advertize your goods without reference to the goods produced by any other company is non-existant - a friend of mine said he saw numerous ads saying that, for instance, GMC is way better than, say Toyota, and stuff. If this is true, there should be court trials every day

Life is only given once ... and most often by accident

mmm...broadcasted ads....they wouldn't go too well with my dreams of people falling off zeppelins and being squashed by toppling ladders and kittens being drowned in soup.