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I've been quite quiet this week as I've been ever so busy, but seeing as it's Friday, it's not like I've done much in the way of actual work this morning. I know I ought to - I've got a drift of paperwork to the left of my computer which is threatening to take over my desk - but sometimes the siren lure of the internet calls to me too strongly to resist.
My subject of interest this morning has been beserk self-published books available on Amazon. The sort of stuff which no actual publisher in their right mind will ever look at, but which someone feels so strongly about they've put their own money into running off a few hundred copies. This has ranged from truly awful-looking novels to the really nutso end of the market.
The sort of stuff which, in fact, a few years ago I might have bought and spent an evening reading out in silly voices.
Anyway, my surfing eventually brought me to the delightfully sane self-published tome Birth Control is Sinful in the Christian Marriages and also Robbing God of Priesthood Children!! . The caps appears to be the author's own. Clearly this is a subject she feels strongly about.
Now, you know me. I'm not one to mock the afflicted unless they're fans of Gordon Brown, so I shall leave any comments about this book to your imagination. However, what did catch my eye was the list of "Customers who viewed this item also viewed" at the bottom of the page which, when I visited, included:
A horse-head mask,
A copy of a book called Hookers or cake,
A copy of How to disappear completely and never be found,
A set of six shot glasses, and
A computer cable.
It reads like the list of prizes on a spoof game show.
Anyway, seeing as it's Friday and a lot of you work in the public sector so you won't exactly be pushing yourselves this afternoon, here's a challenge. I want you come up with a good, convincing reason, why someone - anyone, in fact - might have bought all six of those items for use in some sort of combination.
Because frankly, I'm flummoxed.
My subject of interest this morning has been beserk self-published books available on Amazon. The sort of stuff which no actual publisher in their right mind will ever look at, but which someone feels so strongly about they've put their own money into running off a few hundred copies. This has ranged from truly awful-looking novels to the really nutso end of the market.
The sort of stuff which, in fact, a few years ago I might have bought and spent an evening reading out in silly voices.
Anyway, my surfing eventually brought me to the delightfully sane self-published tome Birth Control is Sinful in the Christian Marriages and also Robbing God of Priesthood Children!! . The caps appears to be the author's own. Clearly this is a subject she feels strongly about.
Now, you know me. I'm not one to mock the afflicted unless they're fans of Gordon Brown, so I shall leave any comments about this book to your imagination. However, what did catch my eye was the list of "Customers who viewed this item also viewed" at the bottom of the page which, when I visited, included:
A horse-head mask,
A copy of a book called Hookers or cake,
A copy of How to disappear completely and never be found,
A set of six shot glasses, and
A computer cable.
It reads like the list of prizes on a spoof game show.
Anyway, seeing as it's Friday and a lot of you work in the public sector so you won't exactly be pushing yourselves this afternoon, here's a challenge. I want you come up with a good, convincing reason, why someone - anyone, in fact - might have bought all six of those items for use in some sort of combination.
Because frankly, I'm flummoxed.
