Every year, Neiman Marcus publishes a Christmas catalog with extravagant gifts and baubles. These are intended either as jokes, or to (and I’m conjecturing here) remind the ultra-rich that, “Yes, there are people with even more money than you.” Seriously, we’re talking about fucking Bentley-branded hovercrafts and Chocolate mansions staffed by 300 virginal sex-slaves here. So anyway, this year one of their “flights” of fancy is the lifetime American Airlines AAirpass, which will grant the bearer free, first-class passage on any American flight, forever. Neiman Marcus shoppers can slip this gift into their sweetie’s stocking for the low, low price of only $3,000,000.00 (or two, for $5,000,000.00!!). Cute, very cute. But here’s my question, since we (as taxpayers) are already contributing over $1,000,000,000.00 to United Airlines’ Christmas Club account, can we arrange some kind of similar perks on their flights? And finally, a caveat to anyone who might actually purchase the AAirpass: If $1.1 billion isn’t enough to keep United afloat (or a-flying… whatever), what makes you think that your $3 million investment will still be worth a crap in another 5 years?
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And yes, I’m aware that the _real_ purpose of these ridiculous gifts is to generate free publicity for Neiman Marcus and that by posting this here, I’m playing directly into their hands. Just so you know =P
In the same product, they also offer “…the world. Quite literally.”
I wonder how they might gift-wrap that.
They deliver it as is, it’s your job to remove the ozone layer.
I hate those ozone layers; I can never get those off without scissors and I never know where the stupid scissors are.