Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 04, 2022

But my question is, why is he keeping the endorsements on ice?

You could create a new cryptocurrency and then buy a celebrity endorsement.

Those who lost money on cryptocurrencies and on quack medicine can certainly be happy that at least the celebrity endorser may have made some money in the process.

The beauty of a business like that, is that he could follow the trends quickly. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was selling twitter verification checkmarks in a week or so.

do they come in dollops or wraps?

Does it come with sprinkles?

A dime a dozen.

I’ll take a reverse mortgage ad, hold the relish.

Absolutely correct…

Unless you’re a company in a concentrated industry, like the oil industry

and especially if you own politicians.

In our house, celebrity endorsements automatically ring up NO SALE.

Strange how they’re now concluding that demand drives inflation. And here I always thought it was greed.

The celebrity endorsements I see these days, mostly by has-been actors and jocks, are about as stimulating to me as celery endorphins.

Dish, bowl, wrap, or waffle cone?

$8 will get an endorsement from some “celebrity” you never heard of and a non-kosher hot dog without a bun. What a great deal!

There is a handy app now called “Cameo”. We can get celebrity endorsements from a lot of interesting people. I want to try it out, but I don’t really have anything worth endorsing. …sigh

A celebrity endorsement and $5.00 might get you a cup of coffee.

I have never been able to understand why a celebrity endorsement (of a product or service that is not in their field) has any influence with rational people. I assume that every company that has uses a commercial that features a famous person paid that person to perform in that commercial. Even if they actually used the product before they established an advertising relationship with the company, why should it matter to me that they enjoy using that product?

There is an organization called, “Freedom From Religion Foundation.” Even though I am a church-going Christian, I believe in what they are attempting to accomplish namely: keep religion out of science and politics.

However, I disagree with the means by which they attempt to do this.

First, they try to prove that God doesn’t exist. As any school child scientist can tell you, absence of proof is not proof of absence. This question can’t be answered short of God coming down and saying, “I don’t exist.”

Then they go on to quote or cite “elite scientists” who are or were or were probably atheists. I have several friends who are atheists. If you don’t have faith, then atheism is very logical. I can see their point. However celebrity endorsement is NOT part of the scientific method.

When I was a kid back in the 1960s I thumbed through an old trade magazine of my father’s. In it I saw a small ad where baseball player Mickey Mantle was endorsing a brand of large stadium speakers. Even though I was about 10 years old at the time I remember thinking, “What does Mickey Mantle know about stadium speakers?” Yet there was his picture in the ad, purportedly touting the speaker’s virtues.

Yes, I know the main purpose of a celebrity endorsement is to get the product attention. However, I would think it would be in the interest of a celebrity to not make it too obvious they are pimped.

I like my endorsements with mustard, onions, relish, and ketchup – makes them more savory.

So that’s how Fetterman got Oprah’s endorsement?

“Kim Kardashian to pay $1.3M fine to settle SEC charges over crypto promo.” from NBC news

I bet that guy has a whole warehouse full of overstock Kanye endorsements that nobody wants anymore.