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Back to these damned things. First of all, I'm glad a helpful citizen is directing people's attention to the fine print—an entirely separate catch, additional to the one I pointed out. Basically the offer is meaningless. Is that a surprise?

Second of all, this particular ad always sent my mind going in a comic direction that was just maybe a little too dark/icky (e.g., "Where was this deal ten years ago, when I had to sell my body in Hell's Kitchen to pay for cocaine?")—but the magic eyeball that someone has drawn onto this woman* allows the joke to settle more on the silly/nutjob end of the spectrum,** like, "Where was this deal ten years ago, when I still cared about things like money and the material world (before I grew this fucking third eye and totally outgrew your slipshod 3D reality)?"

Or, "Where was this deal ten years ago? I will peer into the universe's secret core and search all possible alternate dimensions to find the answer."***

Anyway, as before, a better question would be, where will this deal be after Jan. 31, 2009?

* Who, to be fair, does clearly have a serious drug problem, which might indeed have been prevented if Bank of America had come up with this promotion in the 1990s.

** Yes, there is such a spectrum: sketchy to surreal, Gallo to Dalí. Sure.

*** "Oh, there it is: in the alternate timeline where Gavrilo Princip failed to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand."