Has this sign ever motivated you to buy something?
I actually once saw one that said, “Similar to As Seen on TV”.
What makes you buy stuff that you don’t actually need? I tend to buy crap related to my current interests even though I don’t really have any use for them. A cool capo even though I have one that is more than adequate. A book of guitar chords even though there isn’t a chord you can’t look up on the web AND hear what it sounds like.
There is an “As Seen on TV” store in our local mall.
The great thing about the store is you can go look, see, and touch all their cr*p without having to pay shipping, handling, and return fees.
I shop there often, never buy though.
The advantage to the label is, assuming it’s somthing you want, that you may have seen the commercial, possibly hundreds of times, so you are much more aware of what that specific product is and what it’s supposed to do. That is, assuming it works for you as well as it works in the commercial…
nope i never have, i buy something if i want it, not because i saw it on tv. and all the adverts these products are on are like jml ones where they are trying to rip you off with rubbish, and have tacky adverts with the “for a special time only buy this and we will send you these too, free of charge” i would never buy anything from them at all.
Lol, that reminds me of my card:
:):p:D 
Extreme Extreme Extreme!
Perhaps you should add LEDs to your card so “Extreme” is back-lit? Maybe you need a bigger card so you can write “Extreme” a few more times on there? In a bigger font?
Just curious, what does being “Extreme” buy you? What is a mild-mannered mountain unicyclist like myself missing out on?
Haha, I realize that the word is overused in the Uni/bike community, but for the average person-for whom the card was intended-it’s probably the best word to describe how many of us ride our unis/MUnis, and it helps to distinguish it as more of a serious sport than a mere novelty. I could have opted for “hardcore”, or some other adjective, but nothing else really came to mind.
Bottom line, Hardcore MUni, trials and street have earned their rightful place as legitimate, “Extreme Sports”.
We have one of these at the local mall. I want a pancake puff iron!
I think the qualifier “mountain” before unicycling / -ist is enough… most people don’t expect to see circus clowns riding in full regalia down the side of a cliff, do they?
If you haven’t guessed by now, I’m not too thrilled about these superfluous adjectives. Why do we need different categories of sports (Sports vs. Extreme Sports)? And who’s to say which is in what category? Honestly, if rugby and hockey aren’t extreme, then I say the whole idea is messed up.
Think about it. In comparison, mountain unicycling is mild. We’re riding on quiet paths down scenic hillsides. In the hockey rink, one is constantly under physical attack by heavily armored men with large sticks. It’s not uncommon for rugby players to end up with deformed ears and hockey players to lose teeth, just from regular play.
How many muni riders do you know with “holey smiles”?
Unicycling doesn’t need marketing. Our sport should stand on its own merit. If people can’t see that, then there’s no business “selling” it to them. Either people see us as circus clowns, or they respect our athleticism. Adding “glitz and glam” to the sport just pushes us back in line with the clowns, IMHO.
It’s just a card lol! No wait…it’s even in this headline…damn! Well, it just came out today, so maybe I could call and have it changed…maybe not. Sorry about that!
It’s just a card lol! No wait…it’s even in this headline…damn! Well, it just came out today, so maybe I could call and have it changed…maybe not. Sorry about that!
But seriously, hockey and other contact sports are universally considered very in-your-face hardcore sports. Unicycling on the other hand is considered by most average people as either a circus-oriented act or a mere novelty, and certainly NOT an extreme sport, or something to take very seriously. A lot of us are going to…extremes…to change that outdated conception.
The mere fact that hikers/bikers are so often blown away, shocked, surprised and impressed, is proof that the majority of people have no clue about Muni/trials/street, etc. In fact, they use the word “extreme” a lot more often than I do lol!
Terry, the direction this thread was heading I was convinced you would have no further self-promotion opportunities. “Painted into a corner by Maestro he is”, I thought. But then you not only roar back, but do so with a Double Photo Op, and a Triple Repeat on the word Extreme. And all that on top of the original introduction of your business card in a thread that had absolutely nothing to do with that topic. I am in shock and awe.
PS: You needed a slightly different angle on your muscle shot, so that Piano Tuning would have been fully spelled out. Those same hikers/bikers that are so often blown away, shocked, surprised and impressed, probably won’t know what ANO NING is, and they’ll blast right past your article on their way to look for a tuner in the back-of-paper classifieds.
[ad nauseam]…clowning, circus or otherwise, and athleticism are not, as far as I know, mutually exclusive…[/ad nauseam]
Lol, and that sucks because I’ve been riding so much, I’ve missed a lot of work! :o
Perhaps you should spell it XTRM, the less letters = the more extreme.
Also I thought I recognised that first picture from somewhere…
HAHA! LMAO! 
Contains a profanity directed towards mother nature aswell as AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW 400 babies.
HAha, I love that…
Gosh, his vains are the size of my arms. haha.
yep, that’s because it’s heavily photoshopped
I have a JML breadknife. I bought it without realising that JML do those adverts that last five minutes, as I don’t watch any telly. I hate to say that it’s actually a really good knife; it was quite cheap (the main reason I bought it) and definitely money well spent, despite the stick I get from friends for owning it…
