Flour People

 

We just published post number 900. We’re also approaching 100,000 views. Thanks readers! I thought we were at “gold record” levels, but I checked and a record is not gold until 500,000 copies are sold. So, we might have to wait a few months. A record reaches platinum when 1,000,000 copies are sold. What’s with there being a level higher than gold? Shouldn’t gold be the top level? Has anybody who has won gold in the Olympics ever had a gold record, I wonder? I can’t think of one. I bet Simone Biles cuts a record at some point…

I bet the song “Gold Finger” went gold. Heck, I bet it went platinum. I bet they tried to get the singer to do a follow up song called “Platinum Finger”…

Gold Medal Flour must have won a gold medal at some point but that company’s been around so long who knows when they won that award.  I bet it gets confusing when people win gold medals at the fair for their flowers…

New Territory

 

I heard a commercial on the radio for an online bank yesterday. The commercial went into new territory. The guy said that he had applied for a loan at his local bank and that he and his banker had had a 15 year relationship. But after he applied he didn’t hear anything for 8 weeks. So he finally called the bank only to find out he’d been turned down for the loan.  And that decline led to his divorce.

Wow. This is the first time I had heard the phrase “led to his divorce” in any commercial. Seriously?  Hair loss, weight gain, sleep number? None of these commercials ever mention divorce caused by the problem being addressed in the commercial…

The guy of course got the loan in three days from the online bank. But there’s no mention of his wife coming back.  I think if the loan decline led to divorce, she’s gotta come back when the loan gets approved by the new bank. I need the new bank to make that happen.

Is that asking too much?