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The first time I saw this ad for H&R Block I couldn’t believe it. The next time, I marched myself down to the computer, poked around in H&R Block’s web site til I found some suitable email addresses and winged off the following. If you’ve seen the ad, feel free to send your own email. I’ll let you know if I hear anything back from these corporate types.

Dear Mr. Schneider and Ms Smiley,

It was with great dismay and disbelief that I watched your current TV ad showing what first seems to be very small pieces of paper blowing through a city, out windows. Not sure what this was supposed to be, I kept watching while the small pieces became a cloud thick enough to darken the sky. People looked up from the street with a look of fear.

Hello.

Does September 11th and the cloud of small pieces of paper blown from the World Trade Center ring any bells?

Tacky. Tacky. Tacky.

PS Yes I did watch the whole ad: The small pieces of paper are apparently supposed to be the large sums of money that people overpay the government. Whatever. The ad was too full of painful images. Whatever were you thinking?