Thanks! We are touched and humbled... but sad that Barta does not appreciate our beard. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

We've had a couple of "heavy" topics, so let's move on to something a bit lighter and fluffier: Advertising -- an innocuous and sometimes amusing way of promoting goods and services? Or part of an evil conspiracy to corrupt our kids, and distract and manipulate us, through subversive social conditioning?

What say you?