Knowing the eyes of the world would be focused towards the cosmos Saturday night, Chili Chat decided to roll the dice. 'Supermoon', the closest and brightest moon to the earth in 18 years seemed like the perfect opportunity for a shameless Chili Chat plug. Unfortunately, when we contacted NASA in early 2009 to begin this project, meteorologist Marty Mullinghammer had not yet released to forecast for March 19, 2011.
Initially hearing reports for clear skies on Saturday morning, Chili Chat and 400 guests boarded the S.S. Pinto Bean and headed out on beautiful Lake Tichigan for the 10th annual "High Seas Regal Regalia". We figured this would be the perfect opportunity to show our over 350 investors how well their investment was going to pay off. We wined and dined all afternoon, sucking down gallons of chili and washing it down with vintage cans of Magna Carta beer. At 7:00 pm CST, we prepared to unveil our 1.3 million dollar investment, which we were convinced would change the world of advertising forever. With the flashbulbs charging and binoculars in hand, we all stood arm in arm, riddled with anticipation and wondered "Is the world ready for Chili Chat?"
So we waited, and waited, and waited. And finally we saw the beautiful, bright orange supermoon coming over the horizon and directly behind the thickly overcast sky,where it would remain for the rest of the night. Luckily, Lance Crackers brought his slide whistle key-chain and cut the tension with a comically placed blunder sound effect. Most investors immediately jumped ship and headed for the shore, we assume. A few less daring waited until we returned to the shore, making certain to give us all a nice one fingered wave on the way out.
For the record, We do not regret this decision. We had no way to predict the immense amount of cloud cover that would "spoil" our unveiling. Maybe everyone should be blaming meteorologist Marty Mullinghammer's poor forecast and ugly sweaters. We also will not be taking blame for the outbreak of food poisoning as a result of the tainted shellfish that were served. People, it's a chili regalia, why we're you eating the shellfish?! We hope you will continue to enjoy our boring paper and Internet advertisements.
Side note: We are also in the market for a new field of investors. We have been offered ad space on the dark side of the Moon at a discount rate. This sounds like a no brainer. Our next investment club meeting will be held this Friday, 7:30pm at Thurl's Olde Tymie Inn. Please bring your checkbooks and a dish to pass.
Cheers,
And please, no shellfish dishes at the meeting.
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