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Assignment AOL - The mismatched plates
According to Gawker “Seed, the AOL media content robot, uses it’s mad robot brain to generate story ideas based on what you, yes you, have been searching for on the internet, and then it asks you, yes you, to write articles based on these “assignments” and then pays money for them, but maybe not to you. It’s really an evil plot to get cheap content to amuse the proletariat by both keeping them busy writing pap for a pittance while simultaneously reading all the dispatches from frustrated writers around the country.”
The latest AOL assignment? A story on mismatched plates.
Original, actual assignment: What can you do with a set of mismatched dishes if you don’t want to serve on them? Can you decorate your home with them? How? Can you make something with them? What? TARGET KEYWORDS: crafts. OTHER: Use embedded links where appropriate, with preference for links to relevant AOL properties. TONE: Friendly, informative, authoritative but not intimidating. SUGGESTED LENGTH: 300 Words. PAYS: $25 USD.
My Response:
Beware the mismatched plates, my son!
The bells do toll for thee.
Just take them to the rifle range,
And prop them ‘gainst a tree.
For mismatched plates do tell a tale,
Of bankruptcy and woe,
Of businesses now doomed to fail,
Sad triumphs long ago.
Of empires won and lost, my son,
And kings and queens of yore,
Of global warming not yet done,
The fatness of Al Gore.
The march of Time will never cease,
Bad deeds send us to hell,
But there we’ve got broadband at least,
Not crappy AOL.
And so the mismatched plates do fall,
From bullets fired at will,
And laughter from the mouth of Gates,
His friends just call him Bill.
