I am saddened to learn of the death of Miss Cleo, the tarot-reading psychic who scammed advertised on cable TV like crazy back in the early 2000s. I first saw her ad, with her sultry Jamaican accent (but really, Seattle) during a re-run of The O’Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, because that was totally a thing back then.
It inspired me, a newly-aspiring Macromedia Flash cartoonist, to create this. To be fair, my ad wasn’t much worse than her’s:
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