Top 10 Places to Fear on Halloween Night

Do Not Enter

In the weeks before the murders, strange events took place around Camp Scott.  Personal items began disappearing from the cabins and tents.  In one incident, a counselor reported that her doughnuts had been stolen, and inside the empty doughnut box was a disturbing hand-written note.  The author vowed to

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Top 10 Late Night Infomercials

), same black-and-white vignettes of consumers who are immensely-frustrated by mild inconveniences that are blown way out of proportion.

The irony is, these laughable infomercials are actually entertaining, and thus effective.  (It also helps that they are often aired late at night when the viewer’s TV options are severely limited.) The infomercial’s message festers within the most subconscious parts of the brain until it pops up (surprise!) right around the holidays or a relative’s birthday you forgot about until the last second.  The joke is on the consumer for having ever doubted the effectiveness of blunt repetition.

Here are ten of the best examples of such super duper products that we never thought we’d buy in a million years, but somehow we did anyway:

10. The Shake Weight

The commercials feature a rather sultry girl cradling the weight in a very compromising fashion while on her knees.  The suggestive imagery is too overt to be subliminal, which is why it makes a great gag gift in the tradition of anything from the

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