I'm doing web copy....

… for a freelance client right now that’s starting a site like Woot. And I’m really, really hoping they don’t ask me to take this joke out. But I’m sure they will. It’s the only moderately funny thing I’ve gotten to include so far:

When did you start COMPANYNAME?
1963.
Wait a minute, that’s way before the Internet was invented.
It is. COMPANYNAME used to sell seahorses, weight training pamphlets, and other novelty items in the back of comic books. Our top selling item was a pamphlet entitled Daisy’s Guide to Ladies’ Manners: Why Boys Don’t Like Girls Who Like Science. COMPANYNAME acknowledged the regrettably sexist overall message of the pamphlet in 1974, and has since discontinued its publishing department.