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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

J.G. Wentworth can help ...

Two things gleaned about the late-night TV-watching crowd after analyzing the advertisements.

• Judging by the sheer number of ads and companies providing this service, just about every one in this TV demographic needs cash now and is seeking immediate liquidity from their annuity or structured settlement. Several businesses advertise this service, but I'm particularly tired of that one old guy always appearing to hawk his company's version of this service. You know the one I'm talking about. Lesson here: Don't get locked into a longterm annuity or structure a settlement so that you find yourself needing cash now.

• Anyone else who doesn't need cash now has been involved in a fall, an auto accident or any kind of accident and needs a lawyer now. Lawyer advertisements are great because any town you go to, there are different lawyers, but the commercials really are all the same. And every community has that one lawyer or two that everyone claims to hate because of their commercials, but they must be well off enough to inundate the airwaves with their low-quality advertisements.

In the first 4 days of July, it rained more than 13 inches here. That made it the wettest July since 1976. Not just the wettest first week of July, but for the entire month ... in the first four days. The ramifications of this downpour and the inevitable flooding and standing puddles -- mosquitos. Lots of mosquitos. And very large ones, at that. For the oddsmakers out there, this week's betting line: Odds that I will get West Nile virus in the next month -- 53:1.

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