Just "entertainment"!

It turns out last night's NBC's Medium crime drama had a plot in which a senator from Arizona - who just happens to be a former POW - turns out to be... a double murderer and a cannibal!

I tell you, the people who, back in '63, arranged for the "little girl picking the flowers" ad to run immediately after a telecast of Dr. Strangelove were clumsy thumbed amateurs, by comparison.

Or maybe not.

If the self-righteous clods who arranged for last night's plot can't learn to rein in their, um, "creative impulses," their attempts to sway public opinion may backfire on them.

Cheers...

UPDATE: As LJ friend justpat points out, most of the info in the second graf is wrong. The Daisy Girl ad ran in 1964 during a telecast of David and Bathsheba, and not Dr. Strangelove which only hit the boob tube in '68. No doubt, I am recalling a similar ad, aired at a different time, after a movie of the Dr. Strangelove genre.

In other news...

...I was feeling pretty puny, in a sort of unwilling-to-share-TMI sort of way. And if there was ever a day to feel puny, it was today, as the plate contained only one 500-word assignment, which has been translated and sent.

Another assignment hit the inbox at around 7 pm. The first three pages of the Word file gave me a little start, as they consisted of full-page images of the document's title page, signature page, and TOC, which made me start to think ugly thoughts, but text began showing up on page 4, and there's about 13,500 source words of it.

Yay!

The deadline is next Monday, but I hope to have put enough of a dent in it to be ready for more before then.

(I'm sure that's my anemic checkbook talking.)

Time to hit the sack. I'm still not at 100%.

Cheers...