The MirrorARCHIVES: May 14 - May 20 2009 Vol. 24 No. 47  
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BEST SUCKER
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Toppingsy-Turvy: A British customer service call recording has been floating around the Internets, in which a man calls to complain about how a frozen pizza he bought is completely devoid of toppings—no cheese, no tomato sauce, but plenty of hilarious Welsh accent. Turns out, drumroll please, the pizza was upside down. The controversy is whether this is a staged prank or someone who’s actually dumber than Peter Griffin. Decide for yourself at bit.ly/pizzamoron.

Recession-proof: Gone (so they say) are the days of conspicuous consumption, where every copy-shop employee and sandwich artist could get his or her own jewel-encrusted BlackBerry, six-bedroom McMansion with 12 plasma TVs and an H2 on 24s, all on low-monthly-payment credit. Now (apparently) we have to start living like regular wage-earners. Well, this blog is here to remind you of where you shouldn’t be spending the money you don’t have—a $5K carbon-fibre motorcycle helmet, $225K platinum-bottled tequila and a $32-million gold-encrusted bathroom, fit for a king with the royal runs at maybeyoushouldntbuythat.com

—Michael Citrome
Comments? mikecitrome@yahoo.com
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