I just had the below pop-up ad on my screen and how obviously-faked the photo is. Somebody needs to be fired for creating such a sloppy ad!

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Bobby, we have an endless pool here on campus over in our football training facility. It looks just like this one and I have seen a player using it before. Yep, it is a real product.

Can the guy swimming in the pool be swimming at such a quick pace while being 5 feet from either end of the pool?

Yes. I would have believed this was a fake ad too if I had not seen one actually being used. Go ahead and get the free DVD or try and find some footage of one in use on the web. I bet you can find one.

Bobby, this is the wonderful world of advertising. As long as the advertiser does not make claims about the product in the ad that cannot be done, there is no harm. Most of the pictures of food in advertisements is completely unedible. It is doctored up for the photo shoots then dumped in the garbage. It all goes back to the old saying...things are not often as they appear.

There is an ad right here on this board that really creeps me out for some reason. It is the Vonage phone ad. I guess it's the floating people going back and forth in the ad banner. eek!

If you go to www.panicware.com you can download their free pop-up stopper. They will try to get you to purchase their "deluxe" versions. Don't bother. I've used the freebie for several years and it works fine.

Plus anybody that has Windows XP, should have already received by now, a huge service update, which came out about 3 months ago. Since having this installed, I have had zero popups and love every minute of not having them too.

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