The November 15 2002 Orange County Weekly has a story called “Infomercial Junkies” by Anthony Pignataro, about Johnny and Frankie arata’s obsession with buying stuff they see on TV:
http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/03/11/gift-pignataro.php
</font><blockquote><font size=“1” face=“Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif”>quote:</font><hr /><font size=“2” face=“Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif”>Consider the unfortunate and short-lived fascination with the Epilstop.
“That’s a hair-removal system,” said Frankie. “You spray it on your skin, then wipe it off. That doesn’t work at all.”
“Yeah,” said Johnny. “It tells you to wipe it off after, like, a minute or it will start to burn. And it burns.”
“We sent it back,” said Frankie. “We kept the free bathrobe it comes with, only that was never really free because it required $14.95 in shipping and handling.”
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[ November 16, 2002, 03:54 PM: Message edited by: Andrea ]