*ban art parlour in the description and sift name. Posted 2 hours after was posted on yt. Self link and/or spam.

I KNEW this was coming. I literally was talking about this exact thing at work today.

Not gonna lie, was just 100% expecting it to be the kids dad coming out of the betters parlour screaming "WOO!"

Note to self: never trust Wikipedia.

From the Beatles Bible:

One of Lennon and McCartney's earliest songs, I'll Follow The Sun was written in 1959 at McCartney's family home in Allerton, Liverpool.

"I wrote that in my front parlour in Forthlin Road. I was about 16. I'll Follow The Sun was one of those very early ones. I seem to remember writing it just after I'd had the flu and I had that cigarette - I smoked when I was 16 - the cigarette that's the 'cotton wool' one. You don't smoke while you're ill but after you get better you have a cigarette and it's terrible, it tastes like cotton wool, horrible. I remember standing in the parlour, with my guitar, looking out through the lace curtains of the window, and writing that one."

Paul McCartney
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn

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I have a soft spot for these kinds of games - I remember them still being around in the late 70s in pizza parlours and snack bars.

Pachinko parlours are soul-less, life-less, depressing bloody places. Wasn't a woman charged about 10 years ago, for leaving her infant in a car, parked outside a pachinko place for something like 6 hours, while she gambled away inside? I forget the details, now, but I remember thinking it was a tragedy at the time.

this is not fake. also, the tattoo artist apparently spent 7 hours trying to talk her out of it.

( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/01/casino_tattoos_womans_face/ )

To its credit, the tattoo parlour which did the dirty deed - SI TATTOOING in Salt Lake City - reportedly spent seven hours trying to talk her out of it. Well, sort of to its credit, because it went ahead and tattooed the silly woman anyway, but it's the thought that counts...

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as for goldenpalace, shame on them indeed.

The Golden Palace take on this, the literally unacceptable face of capitalism, is as follows: "I think this kind of advertising will become increasingly popular as time goes on. It is a perfect way to get attention amid the clutter of advertising that people see every second of every day. Conventional forms of marketing just don't cut it anymore. To get people's attention, you have to stand out from the crowd. In light of Karolyne's story and her intentions to improve her son's education, we have given her additional $5,000 on top of the $10,000 spent on the auction."

they have also done other shifty marketing things, ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/06/18/golden_palace_starts_u_s/ ) such as paying a pornstar to interrupt the US Open Golf Tournament by streaking, and, "Golden Palace has already used the streaking gag for self-promotion at the UEFA Cup Final and the French Open."

remember the jesus cheese sandwich? they bought it. the whole buying weird shit on ebay i guess is a good way to get attention, but i think it takes advantage of capitalism to another degree.

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as for karolyne smith:

Smith, on the other hand, now has a url plastered across her face. She claims that she did it to raise funds for her son's private education, enthusing: "I really want to do this. To everyone else, it seems like a stupid thing to do. To me, $10,000 is like $1 million. I only live once, and I'm doing it for my son ... It's a small sacrifice to build a better future for my son."

Playing the "guess which video is going on the top 15" parlour game, this is an easy pick. I'm shocked by Verizon, but at the same time, the caller could've made the explanation a little more obvious.

Like saying .002 cents equals .00002 dollars. If you want the three minute remix, it's here.

I visited George's blog and found out that as of today, Verizon has, sort of, admitted their wrong and are finally giving him a 100% refund (as opposed to the 50% refund they were offering yesterday!).

I don't add much more additional commentary on ACS, but who doesn't love shamelss self-promotion?