jpbikerfreak's Blog

I just had a GREAT idea!

A vast, untapped profit center is just waiting to be taken advantage of. Stop and think about this for a minute: Every time there is any threat of severe weather, all our TV gets pre-empted with sensationalist weather coverage. People are frozen in their tracks and glued to the TV, gripped with a sense of impending doom.

At the same time, the media is losing revenue because there are fewer ads running. Simple solution: corporate sponsorship of tornadoes and hurricanes!

We could start by selling the naming rights to hurricanes. Forget hurricane Hugo. We could have the Sprint-Wal*Mart-Tide-Pepsi hurricane of 07. We could sell futures to these companies so that the top bidders would automatically be selected for the rights to the next big storm!

I can hear it now! "And today's severe weather, brought to you by our good friends at budweiser, is heading through tonganoxie. Looks like this Ford-Motorola-Costco F5 is gonna really pull some shingles off roofs. And remember, if yours is one that is in need of repair, you'd better hope you have Allstate insurance! And if you do, you can get your new shingles on sale right now at Home Depot!

Come on, admit it! I'm on to something here!