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To: Martin Wormser who wrote (6591)	9/12/2000 8:19:09 PM
From: Gary M. Reed	Respond to of 17683

You are right on about the obnoxious WSJ "Hup to it, time is my money" garble from the brat. You'd think Vita would at least shoot a new commercial...even Faber and Kernan lampooned it while it was running before...have you ever seen a commercial so lame that even CNBC employees make fun of it? Although money might be pretty tight for Vita these days...with all the info available on the Internet, I can't imagine people running out to buy a newsletter on how to do dividend reinvestments. Especially with the notion of buying dividend-paying stocks being so out of vogue these days...let's face it, who needs dividend yield when all you have to do is chase the latest go-go investment fad. Let me add another commercial to the "stupid" list...the one where the woman pulls her SUV out of the car wash, then gets it washed again by the high school band. As she pulls in, she has this smug "the world is a much better place because of me" look on her face, as if she'd just fed 10,000 hungry children in a 3rd-world nation. Then the caption on the screen says, "What will you do when you make your first million?" I guess the underlying message is, once you've made a million, you can just go out and blow it. What a crock.