If you have a blog or web page and you want to increase the number of hits it gets, here’s some free advice: mention the name of a product that has it’s own infomercial.
Awhile back i wrote this http://sedatedape.com/2008/04/23/shamwow/ about these super towels I saw on TV.
I’m still getting about a hundred hits a day from people searching for “Shamwow” on Google, and you have to scroll through a LOT of more relevant pages about the Shamwow towels before you get to my page. . So a lot of people are very interested in that kinda thing.
Anyway, someone wrote me a letter about what I wrote. I thought I’d answer it here
I find the remarks as mentioned (pasted below) is HORRIBLE and should NOT be used to represent ANY product. It’s dispicable, disgusting and ignorant. That post should be REMOVED!
Quote referred to: I feel that creating a product this wonderful is Germany’s way of saying “I’m Sorry”. And while I can’t speak for the people who died in the Holocaust , (Well, - I guess I actually could speak for them, but when I’ve done so in the past a lot of the families complained) for me personally, I just want to tell Germany “Thank you - apology accepted - From now on we’ll call it even!”.
Dear crazy person.
Thank you for your letter which was made up of mostly complete sentences. I can tell you feel strongly because of the many words that were written in all capital letters.
I must disagree with you, however. I don’t find what I wrote “despicable” at all. In fact, I find it hard to imagine that anyone would be able to despic anything at all about my fine web-page.
Furthermore, I think before you accuse me of being insensitive you should know that I’m a Holocaust survivor.
It’s true that I was born thirty years after the worst of the holocaust was over. It’s also true that I was in less danger than many Europeans because I was born in Martinez, California - which is almost four thousand miles away from the concentration camps.* So I was never in as much danger of being rounded up by the Nazis as the people who were alive in that era and place. I admit that.
The fact remains, however, that I did not die in the Holocaust. So by definition, I AM a Holocaust survivor.
If you still feel that I was out of line please feel free to complain directly to Shamwow’s customer service line 1-866-879-3813 . They’ll probably be confused by your complaint and claim that they’ve never heard of me or my webpage, but it might make you feel better.
-Tony
*Not counting the ones we built for the Japanese in the ‘40’s… and we didn’t kill them. That would be unsporting. We let our enemies run loose before we kill them**. Sure we burned plenty of our enemies in the war, but we had the decency to only do it from long distances!*** That makes it more morally defensible for reasons I’ve never been clear on.
** Not counting capital punishment
*** Not counting flamethrowers.
June 5, 2008 at 12:48 am
Keep it going Tony! Your acceptance of Germany’s apology has made the world a better place.
June 6, 2008 at 10:28 am
I really don’t see how your comment was “ignorant”. You said the right country and everything.
And since when is forgiving people a bad thing? I recall Jesus encouraging it.