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Gregory Morrow wrote:
> Goomba38 wrote:
>
> > Gregory Morrow wrote:
> >
> > > I sometimes buy a copy of _Vanity Fair_, always loaded with ads. What I

> do
> > > is sit down and go through the magazine and tear the ads out...then I

> can
> > > read it. Obsessive - compulsive I know but it's the only way reading

> the
> > > thing is bearable...sometimes it takes me a whiles to even find the

> index.
> >
> > Reminds me of the episode of "Sex and the City" where Carrie describes
> > her secret single girl behavior of standing in the kitchen reading the
> > latest issue of Vogue, while eating a stack of saltine crackers with
> > grape jelly on them (ObFood). Rituals are important! LOL

>
>
> Yep, and I am VERY anal about tearing out the ads, they must be COMPLETELY
> torn out down to the SPINE of the magazine, no ragged page remnants...it
> took me a whiles to master this task but now I'm a pro at it :-)
>

I'm the same way. And I my daughter (pre teen) just started b uying
Teen People (barf!) and I noticed a stack of the ads on the coffee
table a few days ago. A great example of kids doing what they SEE
rather than what they hear. :-)

Maybe you can find a full time job, going door to door, ripping out
people's ads???