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Come, spend hours browsing the ad graveyard -- don't be fooled by the really tiny "[more]" links,...

August 15, 2002·1 min read

Come, spend hours browsing the ad graveyard -- don't be fooled by the really tiny "[more]" links, there's hundreds of really funny rejected ads to browse here, including a few famous ones. Also, what was up with the Dow yesterday? A 250-point rise? I swear there's some madman with a joystick somewhere, giggling hysterically as he jiggles the US economy around and amazed that anybody thinks it's guided by rational impulses.

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