Tiny Money Land

AT LEAST I FIGURED SOMETHING OUT TODAY: One of the most ridiculous direct marketing ads I've seen lately was for Propolene, another in the seemingly endless line of so-called fatburner pills. The ads for these pills are smeared all over the local airwaves, and I noticed they have been leaning heavily on the hook that "it's so powerful, it's patented", ignoring the fact that a lot of things that aren't really practical (or even original) have been constantly registered. So yeah, it's on the list at the patent office. Was it FDA tested to prove it actually did anything? Hell no. So how many bottles can we put you down for?

Besides the endless stream of testimonials and all that crap about the patents, we're also informed that this supplement is designed to shed large amounts of body fat, and to only use it if you want to lose a lot of weight. This sounded like standard infomercial medical quackery, so I put up my BS shields up and left them in place. However, it dawned on me just ten minutes ago the second life diet pills used to lead on the underground market. Could it be that the "only order this if you want to lose weight" line is code for "THIS ISN'T SPEED. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT"? Looked at that way, the the company almost did a responsible thing. An even more responsible thing would be to take that money and just open a Weight Watchers office with it, but you can't count on quacks to have that much of a conscience.