Yeah, okay, so sex sells. Everybody knows that. If that’s the case, then these new Tom Ford ads should put him at the top of the Billionaire list next time.

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Boingboing points out that there is a whole other ad campaign that is eerily similar to the Tom Ford campaign. Its for VULVA, billed as a ‘precious vaginal odour’ to be used for your smelling pleasure. The website is full of images (NSFW at all) and tags/key words that will certainly attract the attention of all the good little search engines out there. The website address is smellmeand.com - I’m not kidding! Here’s an example.

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You’d have to pay me more than $650 to give a butt facial to anyone and I’m not paying anyone for one. Well, probably not.

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I saw this story, and there WAS NO PHOTO of the building! Or rather no photo of a drawing of what the building will look like after it’s built.

Architect: Building Is ‘Very Phallic’
AP
Posted: 2007-07-09 16:51:05
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The developer said his design for a 40-story resident tower proposed as a gateway to downtown San Diego looks like a flower. A city consultant said it looks like a giant phallus.

“With its rounded forms and swelling of the uppermost floors…this building structure is very phallic,” wrote Gwynne Pugh, a Santa Monica architect hired by the downtown redevelopment agency to review building designs.

San Diego-based Sandor Shapery’s proposal for a 160-unit hotel and condominium tower was expected to go before the redevelopment agency for initial feedback this month. Instead Shapery has asked for more time to “revisit” and perhaps “tone down” the design because he does not want to offend anyone.

“If it looks like a phallic symbol, someone has a strange perception,” said Shapery, who was trying to create an “organic form.” “You can find sex anywhere if you want to…There’s just some sick people out there.”

The building’s architect C.W. Kim of La Jolla said the goal was to create a unique building.

“You know, it’s the mediocre buildings that anyone can do,” he said. “Anyone can do a square building.”

I want to see the building, but then again - once you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. Or so they say.

Hazel, I’ll bet you could PhotoShop an interesting “phallic” building. Will you accept the challenge? It sounds possibly hilarious…

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Adeline,

I went ahead and bought an Alli Starter Kit. I know, I know, you wrote that it was just too disgusting to use it, but I need to lose a few pounds for swimming this summer.

I’ve been researching it and if you eat a healthy diet the side effects you wrote about are not quite that severe. I’m going to try it anyway.

The price in my local drugstore is $59.99 but I found it online for $49.25 at drugstore.com

All you have to do is do a search through the chitika mall in the sidebar on the right to get the best prices for Alli or any other product you are interested in purchasing online. It also gives you the rating of the store that has the product and whether or not it’s in stock.

Alli Starter Kit.”>You can buy Alli online here.

You can do a search in the chitika mini-mall to see if that is still the best price. Or search for other online products.

I’ll let you know how it goes!

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I hate dieting. Back in the late 1990’s I went across state lines to a doctor who would prescribe Phen-Fen. I loved it. I took two pills each morning, and I had absolutely no desire to overeat all day. I’d actually be surprised when it was time for lunch or dinner because I was doing other things and hadn’t even thought about food. No desire for snacks. No desire for bad food choices. I lost weight and felt wonderful. I kept the weight off for several years - great years for the most part. I stopped taking the Phen-Fen - and occasionally would take just the phentermine part of the pair when the other part was outlawed. The phentermine helped me to maintain the weight loss. Over time, though, it stopped working.

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Tonight, my HMM and I stopped by a drugstore to pick up some toothpaste and shaving gel. At the cashier’s register, I saw a display for Alli which is a weightloss drug. The display was completely sold out. No Alli available - all sold out. Then later, while watching TV, I saw an ad for Alli. And a few minutes later, another television ad for it. Let’s see: Big displays at the register of a big-name pharmacy, repeated ads on prime time television. This company is in a major sales campaign! I looked at their webpage and it all sounded good. But then I looked at the questions on their online “Readiness Quiz” and I got to the following part:

I understand that if I take Alli with a meal containing too much fat, I may get treatment effects, such as gas with oily spotting, loose stools and more frequent stools that may be hard to control . . .

Remember the diet drug that came out a few years ago that blocked fat absorption. I don’t recall the name, but it had the same side effects. That must be what this is. It’s nothing new - just something that’ll give you some bad digestive problems if you eat too much fat. I guess it’s a type of aversion therapy.

No thanks. I’ll continue to work on eating healthful foods rather than rely on a drug that will give me “gas with oily spotting” or “frequent stools that may be hard to control.” Nope, I don’t think so. Yuck!

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