i placed an order with dell yesterday and was disappointed to see that the expected ship date wasn’t until december 29th. then i started to get paranoid because i never got an order acknowledgement. usually dell is pretty good about these things and they send the acknowledgement right away.

this morning i was pleased to find out that my order has already shipped and it’s on its way out. there is a revised estimate of shipping date and it seems all perfectly normal.

then later today i got an email informing me that my order was shipped.

then even later today i got an email confirming that they received my original order.

those wacky guys at dell, what are they thinking?

now, i am not a big fan of dodge cars and trucks. but you gotta give the advertising execs props for having the courage to sponsor the [url=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&e=1&u=/ap/20031210/ap_on_fe_st/lingerie_bowl]LINGERIE BOWL[/url], a pay-per-view event during the halftime of the super bowl where 14 models will be playing football in their lingerie.

tacky? maybe. offensive? possibly. entertaining? you betcha!

seriously, those guys at dodge crack me up. if you thought last year’s playmate fear factor was bad…

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