A WAHumorous World

Oh yeah sure, the Net's full of 'em, but this one's almost believable.

Seems some guy named Ted Murphy is paying people to post ads on blogs and they're popping up all over the place! You write a post with a link in it, bam!! Payday.

But the weirdest thing is...no one knows who he is. Or what.

People's imaginations are running wild, reeeeally wild. Some say he's a Russian mobster (named Murphy?? C'mon!) Some say he's not even a he. Now that's just hitting below the belt, folks.

I know that he's actually a Wisconsin cranberry pirate.

His so-called legit operation is a mere front for a scandalous cranberry-smuggling scheme designed to wipe out the Massachusetts cranberry crop.

What comes to mind when you think of cranberries? Big dairy farms with a bunch of dumb cows? Thousands of otherwise responsible adults in a stadium wearing large cheeses on their heads??

Heck no! You think of Massachusetts, right? Pilgrims, Native Americans, nervous turkeys, stuff like that.

He sends his bands of Midwestern henchmen to secretly steal every tart juicy morsel from unsuspecting Massachusetts cranberry bogs under cover of darkness, stuffing their cleverly camoflauging oversized red coats with their ill gotten booty and saying "Hey dere, ya want some cheese? It's real good, dontchaknow!" to distract inquiring witnesses.

The best part, though, is that he's running it all from Florida. Florida!! That's brilliant...who'd ever figure on Florida? That's the orange growing place, so you'd never...HEY!! Oranges go great with cranberries!!! That fiend.

He's running this so-called business under the name ‘The Consumer Generated Advertising Network’ under the name PayPerPost.com. Many bloggers are making many bucks just for posting blog entries.

Remember to look for that tiny "Made In Massachusetts" label on your cranberries. It's a little tougher to see in cranberry sauce, though.