Bad Advice $1.99

Not having told someone off last week, this week I ran into a fellow on 42nd Street with another creative panhandle: “Bad Advice, $1.99.” He was standing right next to a Verizon store, looking in, while holding the sign towards the sidewalk.

I wish I had photos of these signs, but something in me does not want to take a photo of someone without their permission, and I did not really want to negotiate a fee.

I think this bad advice service is slightly less useful than telling someone off is (at least you can let off some steam). But then we might expect someone who gives bad advice to devise a bad money-making plan.

I then came home and logged on, only to find a rather exciting Hasselhoff photo. Now, I am not a prude, but this was a tasteless photo to have hanging in a posting about even a fictitious soldier-kidnapping. (It was also quite nausea-inducing, because it was an animated photograph, and Hasselhoff’s crotch kept zooming in at an alarming speed.) I linked to the google cache here, because the photo was so funny, but it has gone down now.