In Celebration of the Stupid Holiday

I don't know about you, but those diamond ads really rub me the wrong way. I've always wanted to make a spoof of them, but I've found that somebody has already done a great job. The above ad is one of the least offensive of the batch. Another rather clever one was:

The Beatles Lied:
You can buy love.

They get much ruder than these... if anyone's interested, I can forward them.

I guess I have problems with the diamond ads for many reasons. Among them, the blatant manipulativeness, grotesque sentimentality, the clear materialism (of money buying love), the way that the commercial/advertising mind has done a good job of actually making this into reality, and the general sliminess of the diamond industry (completely artificial pricing created by industry--the fact that DeBeers is so monopolistic that they cannot operate in the US, because they would get nailed by antitrust regulations).

Enh. My two cents for the stupid holiday. Unfortunately, I don't count any single people among my social circle up here at school, so there's no option to have a "Luv Sux" dinner replacement (kudos to Bradley for hosting the dinners over the years, and best regards to all of you in the Bay Area who are going this year. Yeah, that means you, Perlick).