Sep 14, 2009

There Are No Talking Geckos in Australia

We have all seen the commercials on TV with the talking gecko promising low insurance rates with a simple phone call or going to a web site. Sounds great doesn't it and the Geico insurance company probably saves quite a bit of money if it doesn't have to pay a celebrity to do its commercials, although their current talking gecko is getting quite a bit of notoriety as a cartoon character.
Did you know that Talking Geckos do not even come from Australia? So you may have saved a bunch of money on your car insurance, but Giekos (sp?) cannot even talk and Human to animal translation devices have only been made for Chimpanzees and Dolphins so far? And these are only available in the high-tech laboratories in research and development centers.
Between gecko's telling us we need insurance and commercials telling us we must have a credit card so we can pay interest to a large company, it is amazing that anyone listens to this nonsense at all. But it is nice to know that getting a credit card you can save money on your car insurances and that it is so easy even a Cave Man can do it. My friend got a credit card for Mr. Katz, yah you guessed it his Calico Cat! Pretty good deal and now I suppose his cat is buying gourmet cat food on time. Of course a talking gecko takes the cake.
The whole thing is getting out of hand, as the other day I was in a pet store and a little girl asked her mom if they could get a talking gecko, I started to laugh until I realized the girl was actually serious and she looked like she was eight years old. I didn't say anything because she probably still believes in Santa Claus, maybe he will bring her one. The store apparently had none in stock - how dare them!
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