More things which make me wonder

                 More things which make me wonder.....

A current commercial hyping the rigors of car buying  makes me wonder. Is  the process so arcane and difficult , and salesmen so  evil and accomplished that, no matter how hard one tries, the unsuspecting customer will be  browbeaten and coerced into buying  something other than what they really wanted?  

        The commercial features two persons, obviously in different locations, discussing the horrors of this process and maddeningly finishing each other's sentences throughout the advert.  Along the way we see buying an automobile analogized to ordering a meal in a restaurant, for Pete's sake!  "Gimme a  Big Mac, fries,  and a two door hardtop!"  Really?

        The leap of illogic here is that there must be a better way which, they are happy to point out, is to go to the sponsor's place of business and just pay whatever  price they happen to have pasted on the windows of their vehicles, because unlike all the other scumbag dealers in the marketplace, they and only they, are trustworthy, loyal, helpful (insert the rest of the Boy Scout's Creed here). "Trust us, we're here for you!"   

        What amuses me about this on reflection is that for me at least (and my wife, because I asked her) in this instance, and for all the production value and expense,  the first goal of commercial advertising has not been met. Neither one of us can remember who the sponsor is!

Short takes:

If "Ted" Cruz is so damned proud of his Cuban heritage, why doesn't he go buy his real first name - Rafael?

Now that Dodge has been forced to do a massive recall on their vaunted Ram Trucks,  will Sam Elliot do an apology commercial?  "Ram tough -  (some of the time)."

Are contestants  on the "Bachelor /Bachelorette" reality shows actual mentally defective sluts  or are they just playing them on TV?

Is there an ad agency somewhere which specializes in nifty and original names for local TV stations' radars?  We have  Accu-radar, Super Doppler 9,000, Storm Tracker 2 HD, Storm Authority 5K, and the list goes on. If I were a weather guy, I'd hold out for "Big Ass, All Seeing Sumbitch""

Speaking of weather, who exactly did the Weather Channel's Jim Cantore piss off all those years ago? It must have been intense, because ever since, if there's a really, really big storm, ol' Jim will be in the thick of it getting wet and blown around.

Finally, how is it possible for a fairly small dog to occupy so much space on a king sized bed that I have about an eight inch wide place on the very edge in which to sleep?