Love this commercial. Genius, Funny, and Diabolical, all within the same 5 plus minutes!

These pictures were taken in an attempt to showcase the flora and fauna of Lake Sacajawea in Longview, WA. I took them in deference to an assignment I was undertaking for a hybrid Internet/brick and mortar class in Environmental Management, based at the Harvard Extension School. As I had no intention of displaying them to the public, or anyone else for that matter, I did not consider composition, when taking them. My primary motivation was to use them as a reminder for myself when doing research for a paper associated with the course. However, while writing the paper, I thought it might be considerate, if the evaluator of my paper, who was most likely also in Massachusetts, could at least get to see a semblance of what I was writing about, at some point in the not too distant future. So, I made a last minute decision to put them up as soon as I was able, and implied I might do so in my paper. Fini.

Editors Note: I hope to include 6 additional photos below, some of them came out far too dark for viewing, thus I will edit them for light level. If you find yourself wanting to examine a specific photo, each slideshow can be controlled by positioning your mouse indicator over the bottom 1/4 inch of any picture, to “unhide,” the button panel.

Some things are just perplexing. This definitely piqued my curiosity. I watched the first couple episodes of a new show on Hulu.com about a British guy, named Jamie Oliver who wanted to “change,” the American school system, and decided to start with Huntington, Virginia. In short, and for the most part,… no more processed food, and he seemed to insist, among other things, that our food be fresh cooked!

Anyway, the first few shows were interesting, however, and all due respect to the man’s purported intent, I wasn’t exactly holding my breathe. Which is to denote that I don’t see corporate interests, and more specifically, huge, enormous, behemoth sized companies, in the processed food industry(ies), with gobs of cash to spend on campaign contributions, as just sitting back and “sucking it up;” at least in terms of foregoing market share, at the minimum.
Please take note, this does not mean I considered the show entirely without merit. Without delving into too many specifics, in deference to brevity, Mr. Oliver did make an effort to educate, at least one family about his ideas for healthful eating. Like I said, I only watched the first few episodes. I spent a year in culinary school myself, as such, nutritional considerations were introduced into my education fairly early on; in short, learning how to eat well, wasn’t why I was watching the show.

What moved me to write this post, was noticing on Hulu.com, that the season finale of Jamie Oliver’s show was being sponsored by several different companies; two of which were food oriented.  Below are the screen shots. No I don’t own any copyrights to ‘their’ correlated copyrighted material. Yes, I am using them under “fair use.” No, I am not an attorney, nor am I a lawyer. This is not legal advice in any way, of what constitutes “fair use,” nor is it any other kind of legal advice.

Please notice what products are sponsoring the show, in the lower right hand area of each picture. In fairness, I want to remind you that other products were sponsoring this episode as well.

First up:

And the second, I referred to:

That’s right, the first season finale of a show that is basically about trying to feed school children fresh cooked food, was brought to us, in part, by two processed food products!  Hmmm?

I’ll leave it to you whether to laugh, cry, or …

… I could somehow know when you were reading this and have the sound of a creaky door opening,  just as you started reading the subject to this post.

That said, I’m back: (Actually, insert creaky door here instead)

What happens next remains to be seen. At the very least, I hope this will continue to be a great place to keep all the funny videos I find online organized, so I can continue laughing.

There you go, nefarious plan(s) hatched.