Monday, February 07, 2011

Frost Ends It's Early-Valentine Weekend...

...Until they begin all over again when February 14 gets even closer...

Sometimes, words fail. Picture this. A 280 pound man, who hasn't lost an ounce in years, lecturing a national audience...granted the average IQ of his viewers is probably a third of that weight and couldn't put two and two together...but imagine such a man lecturing about how important it is to treat a disease that is directly related to obesity...

"...now, I have diabetes. I have diabetes but I'm treating it and working on it because I wanna be around for my wife and children and their children and someday great grandchildren and you should take care of yourseff like I take care of mahseff."

I don't care what James A. Frost weighs or does with his life but to have the unmitigated hubris to harangue his customers about their weight is a show stopper. That's what happens when a wealthy man spends his time surrounded by toadies. Nary a one of them had the stones to look him in the eye and say, "Jim. You're a walking billboard for a coronary. You're the poster child for a man soon to expire from gluttony, you're a step away from a stroke or a thrombosis, diabetic and look it, and you're flat out silly preaching to people about anything health related."

There. Someone had to say it. Being a grifter is one thing. Being a pompous idiot is another. Worry about how many cheap potsteels from China go out the door and leave the preaching to better men.

On to one of the better scams of the evening...

CCN-21439. Frost Cutlery "Damascus" Steel Blade. The knife in this picture looks nothing like the one they're featuring on Cutlery Corner. This version may actually be a cheaply stamped-out Damascus, but the one on TV is absolutely horrid. Only stretch you out $120, then add $12-$15 for shipping. To own 50 cents worth of steel that his Chinamen charge him maybe $3 to put together and ship.

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