I Am Clearly Misinterpreting This

[ladysprite]

Okay - so I'm working the late shift today, which means that I'm spending my morning tidying up, going running, and (now) sitting around on the sofa eating a late breakfast and watching Supernatural reruns. This, in turn, means that I'm treated to the delight of daytime-tv commercials. Which mostly seem to advertise lawyers, diet aids, and distance learning programs.

I was just treated to an ambulance-chaser commercial which included the suggestion that 'If you or a loved one have suffered (symptom X), (symptom Y), or death, please call our offices.'

And all I can imagine now is a line of zombies, ghosts, and other similarly-deceased folks trying to get through to Kimball And White's Posthumous Barrister Services, or something like that. And how do ghosts use the phone, anyway?

(In other news, I adore this show. Dean Winchester is my hero.)

Comments

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Ghosts use wireless of course. They manipulate the wireless signals to tap into the cellular network.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

I thought ghosts used the skellular network. :)

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

It's really annoying, though, because the living can't hear them. You end up having to get some dowser to comb through the blank voicemails later looking for EVP.

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

When I worked for the Times, we ran a PSA once encouraging people to get in touch with the local fire department to discuss new technologies for warning of fire in the home, beyond the traditional squealy smoke detector, "if you or any member of your family are [sic] dead or hard of hearing."

It was the fire department's typo, not ours, but for obvious reasons our production system's spell checker didn't catch it, and neither did anyone else.

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

Write this story...

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[gmkieran.livejournal.com]

I never got that far. Every time I see that commercial I just think, "What moron left 'dead' in there?" The creative extrapolation is much more fun! :D

[darkoni]

Makes me think of Wolfram and Hart.

[moiramisu.livejournal.com]

This sounds like an awesome story - you should write it! :)