Saw a sign on the way to work the other day for a company named Damphousse roofing. If your name is Damphousse and you're going into the roofing business, it might not be the best place for vanity when naming your company. Sorta like having the name Whitehead and naming an acne treatment after yourself.
You may have seen ads for a national phone carrier who uses the tag line "It's always on", followed by relieved-looking people explaining that they use this carrier because their phone is simply always on. At first glance, it's a pretty dumb ad campaign, because, really? That's the best they could come up with: it's always on? What's next, The local newspaper: it always has words?
However, if you actually watch the ads, the implicit message is that carriers who depend on cable lines will go down when the power goes out, and mass panic will ensue because if you don't have television OR the means to complain about it via telephone, you might as well just end your life right then and there. But here's the thing - if you meet the (minimal) level of nerdery to have your cable company provide you with digital telephone service...I'd say the chances are approximatey ±100% that you own a cell phone - thereby obviating the need for your regular phone to always be on.
I saw Trot Nixon's walkoff homer to win game 3 of the 2003 ALDS, I sat through all 12 gut-wrenching innings over 5 hours and 49 minutes to see David Ortiz's single that won game 5 of the 2004 ALCS, but this is probably #3 on the list of the greatest things I've ever seen in person at a Sox game:
