You Can Find Anything on eBay!
February 8th, 2006
Filed under: General, Medicine
When writing my House review yesterday, I was trying to find a website that provided a good layman’s explanation of what a controlled subtance is. I never found such a site and ended up posting a ink to the overly verbose and legalistic Controlled Substance Act itself.
When I Googled “controlled substance”, I was fascinated by the ad that accompanied the results. Apparently, they will sell anything on eBay.
(For the record, I clicked on the ad and it took me to auctions for radio controlled cars and other items with “controlled” in the title. Not quite the same thing.)
February 8th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Okay, that’s even better than the Google ad for New and Used Pinot Noir on ebay…
February 8th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Hey, Scott, you should try to make the Karl Kesel chat at CBR tomorrow night!
http://goodcomics.blogspot.com/2006/02/chats-should-be-good-karl-kesel.html
February 8th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Official Comment
I’ll definitely be there. Kesel has always been one of my favorite writers, not even couting Hawk & Dove.
February 9th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
On a similar note, just today, I was searching for the etymology of the phrase “the oldest profession” to describe prostitution, and Google turned up an ad that said “Looking for Oldest Profession? Find out exactly what you want today. http://www.ebay.com” I had no idea ebay was involved in that sort of thing…
February 9th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
I meant “find exactly what you want today.” Presumably, anyone searching for “the oldest profession” knows exactly what they want.
February 9th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
Adrian,
The OED shows this quotation from 1922 as the first use of the phrase:
1922 A[lexander]. WOOLLCOTT Shouts & Murmurs ii. 57 The Actor and the Streetwalker… The two *oldest professions in the worldruined by amateurs.
That seems late, but that’s what the OED shows. It scares me what I’ll bother to look up, and what the OED is willing to record.
Presumably, ebay is involved in EVERY kind of thing.
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