God help those poor ad execs. Their time is coming.

I've just seen something truly awful. It was bad enough that it's one of those banner ads which tries to trick people into clicking on them with promises of free ipods, free trips, free sex, etc. Those are pain in the butt enough, but this was too much.

There have been a recent rash of these ads which incorporate a small game; Click the flower, for example, and you'll be whisked away on a dream vacation to Malibu to see Courtney Love slaughter punk music. It's a lot like those damned carnival games. "You want the bigger prize, don't you son? Well, just plunk down $3 more and you can trade in your crappy plush snake for this deluxe plush python! Listen, I'm only telling you this because we're such close friends, but the plush snake is just for losers who don't understand the concept of 'value.' So just give me the money and everything will be ok." And the bottles never fall. You could hit them with a bazooka, and they'd still be standing, mocking you from within their modest pyramid.

The ad in question said that if you "Shoot the bunny" you get an ipod. As an animal lover I was appalled. As the owner of two bunnies, I was incensed. Damn damn damn them! My loveable little dwarfie and mini-rex will be doing cute little bunny things like cleaning themselves and standing up for treats on those ad execs graves I tell you!

Xerox & Memo are members of my family, and I don't take kindly to this kind of crap. It was bad enough when the ads promised an ipod in exchange for shooting the terrorists. What the hell is so great about an ipod anyways? Stop enticing people to violence for electronic crap (that they won't even get, by the way without filling out hundreds of forms and handing over their credit cards, bank accounts, car keys and the deed to their houses!). I think I found my new enemy. Shoot the ad exec and I'll send you an ipod.

And for interest's sake the bunnies' full names are Gen. Xerox McHopsalot and Memo Bis Punitor Delicatum, or just Memo Bis for short.