It was funny (Or, was it pathetic?) After reading in yesterdays, Sunday New York Times that the vast majority of America’s kids are going to look like Dumbo’s kid brother by the year 2010, to read in today’s BrandWeek that a combination of InfoSpace, a provider of mobile entertainment, Skee-Ball Inc. and Verizon Wireless will now offer Skee-Ball-For- Prizes, a twist on the classic arcade game, available to Verizon Wireless customers. So, from now on the classic arcade game, where you throw a wooden ball into a little hole for points, will be available at the end of your pre-pubescent pudgy fingertips. As one of the principals said, "Skee-Ball lovers won't have to shift their lard ass to the arcade. ‘cos now they can play Skee-Ball from whatever couch they happened to be sacked out on!”
Oh, and don't forget the chocolate sauce on the scratchin's!
That’s stupid. Not just regular stupid… but some kind of atomic, super-stupid. The writer is railing against a CELL PHONE GAME as the reason america’s children are cake-gobbling monster ham-beasts? What about… oh, I dunno… the parents, the schools, jesus, even blame TV before you would blame a cell phone game! This is on par with people suing McDonalds because they haven’t seen their feet or privates in 20 years… how about we blame the lack of self-control? I promise you… PROMISE you this guy has at LEAST 3 cell phone games on his phone. Does he really think a kid is going to sit there playing skee-ball on their phone all day long, to the point where it’s actually a factor in their fat-iferousness? Does he expect US to believe that? Give us a little credit here, Georgie.
Posted by: John L. Weis | May 3, 2006 11:25 AM | Permalink to Comment