Weasel-operated Camels - the Explanation

[mbarrick]

"A camel is a horse designed by committee."

Weasels <-- Marketing Weasels

ergo

A weasel-operated camel is one of those things that, by the nature of a "camel" with a committee-of-the-clueless genesis, lacks both utility and beauty yet is taken up by marketing weasels, who with equal or excess cluelessness, heap lies upon crap in an effort to get the weak-minded to believe the camel is worth using and pouring money into for the sole purpose of the weasels getting their cut before it all caves in on itself.

Examples:

• mySpace
• pretty much any Microsoft product since MS-DOS
• top-40 music
• "reality" television
• anything being built to capitalize on the "unprecedented opportunity" of the 2010 Olympics
• et cetera, ad nauseam...

If you can imagine the product being developed in consultation with a focus-group and pitched to a producer/investor with more money than brains, chances are good that you have a weasel-operated camel.

Comments

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

one can only hope that some of these will disappear sooner rather than later...though each of them seems to survive with ever newer crap and rebranding...then again the marketing weasels have an advantage in that most of the population is much too lazy to investigate their stupid claims...and same goes for the natural products industry...there are some good "natural" products out there, but there are also 100s more that claim they can do far more than is possible and they are bought up by the 1000s...

[annamaryse.livejournal.com]

Re the olympics, for whatever its worth, having just been back in vancouver last week, it is reminding me of all the expo hype from a few years back....

I was sick as a dog the whole time I was there, only saw my BFF and didn't 'go' anywhere.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I guess that makes Urban Fare a pretty good example of a weasel operated camel, too.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

With one minor difference: Expo 86 lasted for six months - the Olympics will last for two weeks.

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

good point as there is very little there that separates them apart from most other grocery stores...and the specialty stores do a better job at a better price...so in trying to be upscale and individual they are actually very little of either...

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

A bit of BC history

During the Gold Rush one guiy Brought in Camels instead of horses to carry his loads since cames could run faster, carry more shit, and surive in more hostile area... In fact the camel was a far supperior pack animal

So you just leave camels alone......

Btw - The Camels ended up scaring the shite out of the other horses on the trails of BC so they enacted a law that is still on the books that you arent allowed to have Camels on the trails or roads of BC.... SO no taking your Camel up to Kelowna.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that. I knew the American Calvary brought in camels for use in the desert in the U.S. southwest and abandoned the programme and sold off or set loose the camels after the Civil War. The feral descendants of these military camels can apparently live on in New Mexico. I wonder if some of the BC camels were military surplus?