I can't take it when some women talk in a baby-voice. Those really high-pitched, sing-songy voices. I can handle someone scraping their nails on a chalkboard, but not that.

There's a commercial on the air here right now for a place called Cash Time Loans, and the woman in the commercial is this extremely vapid-looking blonde-- not bimbo, necessarily; more like Naive Pastor's Wife or something like that-- and she squeals out "Cash TIME Loans!" in one of these voices. They play it all the time during the morning news, so I hear it almost every day. She makes me sick, for real. Didn't they listen to her before they sent the final tape of the commercial to the stations? I assume they heard her voice first. What was the marketing strategy on this one?

"I've got it. Let's market this to all the women who were molested as children. Yeah! What other segment of the market needs payday loans more, huh? These women are fragile! They have a fractured sense of self-worth and femininity! So they can't be expected to manage their money... they need our loans...that's it. That's the sell. OK, soooo... git 'r done!"

(I decided to throw in a git 'r done, simply because when I think of things that make my brain and soul hurt, that is right up there with the high-pitched baby voice women.)

(Also, I didn't know for a long time that it was a Jeff Foxworthy thing. I really thought it was a W. saying about the war in Iraq. Some people have found this humorous when I share it. But cut me some slack-- I don't watch a lot of TV. And I will refrain from saying something negative about The 'Fox in case some of his crazy hill-people followers decide to track my yuppy ass down and knock me down a peg 'r two. I'm a pussy like that.)