Times change

Even to a barnacled old phart this was interesting.

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The real reason Bob was smiling

Remember Bob with the ear-to-ear grin, and his rather plain looking, goofy-grinned wife? The TV commercials would make you think the reason for both grins was a product called Enzyte.  

Smiling Bob’s real name is Steven Warshak, and he is (or was) the owner of Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, Inc. and TCI Media, Inc. Goofy wife is Bob’s goofy mother, the coowner of Berkley and TCI. Her name is Harriet.

Berkeley was an incredibly profitable company. All that green flowing in was the real reason for both the Warshak’s grins. Berkley distributed Enzyte, an herbal supplement the commercials claimed enhanced Bob’s sexual performance. Those ads, while entertaining, were apparently misleading. Enzyte didn’t work as claimed (surprise!), and wanna-be Bobs complained.

Bob and Harriet got sued and charged with criminal fraud… they lost on all counts… lost all of that money that kept them smiling on TV and got them chunked in the pokey to boot.

No more smiling Bob. TVland mourned.

But wait! Bob and goofy mother struck back with an appeal, which they won based on 4^th Amendment arguments. Both are smiling again.

If this ruling makes it to SCOTUS, I wonder if Clarence Thomas will be smiling…

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