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NEWS: VizzQwest Braille Clock Flops

Founder Flees Following Flagship Failure

By John Melendez, published Jan 16, 2008
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SPARROW FLEW THE NEST

VizzQwest Marketing Inc. has issued a public plea to help track down its co-founder, Jakk Sparrow. A former buccaneer and shyster, Sparrow is soon-to-be former VizzQwest Corporate Marketing Director. The man seems to have taken flight: nowhere to be seen after market analysts reported unfavorably on VizzQwest's (NYSE: VZQWAK) stock value nearly two weeks ago, based on reviews of the controversial "Braille Clock".

STOP-SMOKING KITS WERE CROCKS

VizzQwest's former project, the Har! Brand "Stop-Smoking-Cigarette Kit", ended up being shelved after AC news reporter Carole Bengle Gilbert received a scoop from reliable tipster-parrot Chico Aranha. Reporter Gilbert's past exposés include CIA front offices and Unofficial Spy Trips into Israel.

Gilbert says Aranha - the feathered co-founder of the wildly controversial inter-species dating service Beaks for Buffalos - overhead a conversation while sitting/shitting on Sparrow's shoulder during one of the pirate's frequent bouts of drunken boasting. Apparently Sparrow had colluded with unscrupulous barristers (lawyers) to find loopholes to repackage fake Cuban cigars as the main component of the stop-smoking kit. The cigars were to be purchased from a shady supplier, hard-time ex-con Ollie who recently was sent off to the slammer on unrelated illicit activities.

That Aranha is a close personal friend of Ollie seems to be sheer coincidence.

Says AC reporter Gilbert about her tip on the stop-smoking kit, "Basically Sparrow was trying to dupe smokers by getting them hooked on cigars as a replacement to cigarettes. The claim to get folks off cigarettes as technically true was underwritten by lawyers, but the final call was that Jakk Sparrow was merely having smokers trade one evil for another. Like promising to help someone get off vodka by offering gin!"

CROCK CLOCK: BLIND DECEPTION

NEWS: VizzQwest Braille Clock Flops
NEWS: VizzQwest Braille Clock Flops

CROCK CLOCK: LED digital clock displays time in Braille code. Problem: the clock face is flat and cannot be read by the blind consumers for whom it was developed.

Credit: John Melendez

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Takeaways
  • LED digital clock face is flat and cannot be read by the blind consumers for whom it was developed.
  • Dupe smokers by getting them hooked on cigars as a replacement to cigarettes.
  • News reporter received a scoop from tipster-parrot, Chico Aranha
Did You Know?
"CROCK CLOCK: LED digital clock displays time in Braille code. Problem: the clock face is flat and cannot be read by the blind consumers for whom it was developed."
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You are so funny! :-)

Posted on 01/17/2008 at 5:01:06 PM

 
I heard that Aranha was working on his own version of the Braille clock, improving on the work of Sparrow. In Aranha's version, each tiny Braille light also delivers an electric shock, stimulating nerve endings in the fingers and making the lighted display readable. Unfortunately, I also heard he's having trouble getting the voltage right. Testers are in shorter supply than they were a week or so ago when the parrot began his venture...

Posted on 01/17/2008 at 8:01:42 AM

 
LOL, love your humor.

Posted on 01/16/2008 at 6:01:38 PM

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