I was watching the news the other night, and as I walked
into the kitchen for a moment, I heard a commercial for Cold-Eeze, and I heard
a voice say: “I’m dead carcass, and I recommend Cold-Eeze.” (Or some such
thing: I’m paraphrasing, as I don’t remember the exact quote.) I was shocked!
Surely I should not take the medical advice of a dead carcass, right? Maybe
he’s dead because he took Cold-Eeze, and he’s mad, so he’s trying to get me to
die the same way, because “misery loves company”. Oh, but then it turned out
that it was the CEO of the company, and his name is actually “Ted Karkus”; but
it sounded so much like “dead carcass”, it made me think: If you are selling
health-related products, and your name sounds like “dead carcass”, maybe you
shouldn’t speak your name in the commercials, or else maybe you should consider
changing your name. But it’s just a suggestion.
Here’s a Cold-Eeze ad with dead, um, that is, Ted’s Carcass:
