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Dilemma Dot-com

There is something about dotcoms. Everybody needs one. It is difficult these days to think that until a few years ago, people actually lived without dotcoms. Chances are that if you don’t know about dotcoms now-a-days, then you probably belong to out-of-this-world.com

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Like the other day at a party, I met hic.com. He looked a little funny after his fourth round. He zig-zagged up to me and said, ‘Great-party.com’. I didn’t know what to say, so I mumbled, ‘Yeah-yeah.com’. He laughed. Either he got the joke or he was high! The host of the evening was a lady. She wore the in-thing on the fashion scene. A glowing white-gown with black dots all over. These fashion gurus will cash in on anything. Like the other day, I spotted this shapely-young-thing in the neighbourhood who was catwalking down the lane in a skimpy outfit and two huge dots cut out on her you-know-where. Now the next time you find holes in your underwear, you know whom to blame it on – the dotcom revolution!

Tell you what? One-day teenagers are going to ask over the Internet – Your dotcom or mine? An eminent educationalist ABC.com who teaches XYZ.com is of the view that sex-education on the Internet is the pits. She rues that the graphic display on the subject is nowhere close to the birds-and-the-bees theory we all grew up with.

Dotcoms are now an integral part of our lives and cannot be ignored. Hold your senses and be prepared to read the newspapers of the future, with headlines such as:
Buxom-betty.com knocks the daylights out of Funny-fellow.com
Percy.com loses her innocence at No-mercy.com
China.com declares war on America.com

So, the other day a seven-year-old-something came up to me and asked,
‘whatdoyoucallyour.com?’
I said, ‘idonthavea.com
And he retorted – ‘Welcome alien. This is planet www.earth.com!

By Felix Foo

 


In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.
— Bill Bernbach