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Posted July 23, 2008, 6:46 p.m.
by Bruce Felps
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Yeah, so I guess Paris Hilton made the phrase "That's hot" all the rage — what, five years ago? — when adjectivizing a thing's or event's coolness quotient.

And advertising typically takes awhile to catch up to the latest in haute celebrity worship, and that, friends, is a classic oxymoron.

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Now, take that alleged CQ, add it to the Weird Wide Web, where almost everything has to have a near-porn factor, and you get claptrap — now there's a lost word — like the ad [left] I saw the other day on the Excite main page.

Online college degrees are hot? Just how is that? The chick flailing away on the laptop, OK, maybe if there's a live Web-cam broadcast in progress, but the degree? Anyone?End of story

2 responses to this post

[anonymous] said at 12:09 a.m. on July 24, 2008, 12:09 a.m.

You're just jealous because you don't get to work outside on the lawn with a striped sunset behind you.

charme said at 1:59 p.m. on July 24, 2008, 1:59 p.m.

Doesn't everyone sit outside in the back yard on the scorched grass while working on the laptop?

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