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Over the Edge
Tastelessness in the face of economic distress is not the sole property of Saturday Night Live.
As markets sink and panic builds, Woot.com, an online retailer that offers 24-hour sales on electronics and gadgets, "decided to use Google AdSense to try to lure some of those investors away from crying themselves to sleep over their portfolios and instead drop by Woot.com," reports SlackeratWork.com (great site name, by the way)
The Woot ad read:
"Before you jump out of that window, why not spend your last remaining dollars at Woot?"
The ad invokes the powerful popular story of investors who jumped out of windows to their deaths on Wall Street after the crash of 1929.
But Nina Shen Rastogi on Slate.com noted recently that 1929 Wall Street defenestrations are a myth.
"Between Black Thursday and the end of 1929, only four of the 100 suicides and suicide attempts reported in the New York Times were plunges linked to the crash, and only two took place on Wall Street," she says.
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