Inspekt

[kurt]

Today I received an unsolicited 12 pound 4 color mega catalog pitching ISG and all things inspection related funneled through Inspection University.

Enjoyment of this thing we do just took a hit.

Anyone else get this yet?

[Marc]

No. I got lucky I guess.

It's a Mike Casey feat. Very flashy, chic, attention-getting but I don't see anything of any substance yet. Anyway, I need to stop looking at this stuff. I think it's turning my hair white.

Marc

[Jerry Simon]

"Dozens of totally free products and services."

"Hundreds of free trials and special offers from top vendors."

"Thousands of products and services at guaranteed lowest prices."

Inspekt? A german company?

[kurt]

I especially liked seeing the throng of overweight white guys on the cover making the Dio "Sign of the Horns"....like a bunch of goons at a head bangers festival......

[Les]

I must really be out of the loop. got nothing. when and where? oh ya and why?

[kurt]

Near as I can tell, it's the next iteration of the Casey Inspect-o-Mania machine, previously the Dynamic Duo, although the O'Malley character seems to have been replaced by the guy with the extraterrestrial name that's got the recall check thing. Throneberg or something like that.

There's overtones of the Branding debacle in the marketing method. I'm not opposed to someone cashing in on HI education, but the offerings are heavy on mold stuff and techno-dweebery.

And that Sign o' the Horns thing on the cover and elsewhere in the mag....I feel like Ed Tom Bell....how'd it get this weird? Are my peers really the bunch of dweebs portrayed in the magazine?

[Les]

The office just told me that we did get "Home Inspector" mag. Same old crap.

[kurt]

Same crap, but in an extremely heavy pound weight paper, 4 color printing, with up close and personal assurances that it's the best crap.

[gtblum]

Dio horns! There's one I never expected to read here! Didn't know we had headbangers in the group. He was from Binghamton. Never met him. Have friends who knew him. I did on many occasions, shoot hockey pucks at Joey Belladonna, (Bellardini to us) (Anthrax) when we were kids. He grew up in the neighborhood, and was a very good goalie. Dio horns. Ha!

[Tom Raymond]

Throneberg does look a little E.T.

[Scottpat]

That catalog is a Nathan Thornberry special!!

[kurt]

You can only say that if you make the Dio Horns while typing.....