TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahon,Kelly
AU  - Annable,Graham
TI  - Race me in a lobster suit: absurd internet ads and the real conversations that followed 
SN  - 9781683691044
AV  - HF6125.5 .M34 2019
U1  - 659.19331124 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Philadelphia, PA
PB  - Quirk Books
KW  - Help-wanted advertising
KW  - Humor
KW  - Temporary employment
KW  - United States
KW  - fast
KW  - Humour
KW  - ukslc
KW  - thema
KW  - Advertising
KW  - Parodies & spoofs: non-fiction
KW  - Internet & digital media: arts & performance
KW  - Language: history & general works
N2  - Knit me into a cocoon help me eat a burrito pretend to be a chair at my dinner party wrestle a komodo dragon race me in a lobster suit. Author Kelly Mahon posts absurd gig ads online, and shares the conversations she had with the brave souls who wanted the job; We're living in a gig economy. But would you respond to an online ad seeking someone to search for escaped ants? Or take an offer for a free tattoo by someone who "needs the practice?" How about a mattress for sale "tainted by geriatric love" or a workout plan that involves throwing Virginia hams? And if you hit reply, and the poster is sketchy about the details or offers to pay you with a gift card for clams, how long would you keep the conversation going? When NYC copywriter Kelly Mahon started posting weird, fake gig ads as a creative outlet, she found that there was someone interested in every bizarre offer she came up with. And the subsequent awkward email threads were equally hilarious and bizarre. Race Me In A Lobster Suit collects Mahon's funniest fabrications, plus the hysterical email conversations that followed as she ratcheted up the crazy. While some respondants become suspicious, others seem willing to play along with the joke. And don't worry, everyone involved agreed to share their emails in the book, so there are no hard feelings. In a world where it seems like everyone's suspicious of everyone else, it's nice to know that there are still people who will at least consider helping a stranger reenact a recurring spider nightmare, or explain the principles of pig Latin to a baffled mother of three
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