HORRORS! AP Says Bad Economy Makes Us Ugly!

publiusforum.com ^ | 10/12/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

It's getting close to Halloween, so I hope this story doesn't scare you too much. But the Associated Press has discovered that this bad economy is making us ugly. That's right, ugly. Because of this downturn people just cannot afford to go to their friendly neighborhood plastic surgeon for those nips and tucks any more. So it is the AP's sad duty to inform us that "As economy sags, faces do too, cosmetic docs say." It's a horrible, horrible world that we now are cursed to live in if we can't afford our Botox and tummy tucks! Now, they are serious with this so quit your laughing this instant.

The economy isn't the only thing that's sagging -- so are faces, breasts and bellies as would-be cosmetic surgery patients increasingly opt against costly nips and tucks because of tough financial times.

You know, I was complaining to my Mommy yesterday that I didn't want my liposuction and she told me to do it anyway because kids in China could barely afford an eyelift these days. I know I should be grateful for what I have, though. Some people DO have it worse, ya know?

But, wait, you ask... what basis does the AP use to report this important "story"? They got it from someone named Anne Ecdotal, I think....

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[Mobile Vulgus]

Oh the humanities, indeed!

[Tax-chick]

LOL! On the bright side, if the economy gets bad enough, people will lose weight naturally and won’t need the surgery.

[Tijeras_Slim]

My 401K certainly won’t have stretch marks any time soon.

[raybbr]

I was watching the creepy show "Doctor 90210" (I think it's called) and this girl was getting a tummy tuck.

The first words out of her mouth when she awoke was, "Am I hot?" I was dumbstruck. Not "Am I okay?" or anything about her health.

I guess some people have to rely on others vanity to make a living.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

LOL!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

LOL!

[Tax-chick]

My Roth value is pretty emaciated, too, but I’m not going to need it for at least 25 years, so I’ll fail to panic.

[Batrachian]

"...the Associated Press has discovered that this bad economy is making us ugly."

It hasn't made me ugly, but then my beauty is inversely proportional to the state of affairs. The worse things are the better I look!

For me, it's the financial version of Kubrick's "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb"!

[Enchante]

Helen Thomas, you really can’t use this as an excuse — you look just as bad in good times......

[Vaduz]

I’ll fail to panic
Sound thinking always works

[Tax-chick]

Sound thinking always works

More often than unsound thinking, at least. And on the bright side, if I'm impoverished in my old age, I'll be thin and won't need liposuction and all the other plastic surgery :-).