# Dear Geico: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-geico/683400 "2014-03-11T01:46:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-geico/683400/21 "2014-03-11T19:49:37Z")
The OP might enjoy [this](http://www.thenationaltriallawyers.org/2014/03/montana-jury-awards-2-5-million-geico/): > [@](#): > > A federal jury in Billings, Montana, awarded $200,000 in contract damages and $2.5 million in punitive damages against GEICO for refusing in bad faith to pay on a woman’s auto insurance policy, after an uninsured driver killed her husband. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-geico/683400/22 "2014-03-11T21:27:57Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > I was at the Home & Garden show two weekends ago. The busiest booths were the infomercial type booths with cookware, flatter wallets, and things to remove cat fur from furniture. People were purposefully standing at these places to watch a commercial. And that perfectly summarizes what Home and garden shows are - one long TV commercial for “home improvement” products and services, with props. One of my first acts as Arbitrary Dictator of Everything will be to suspend all auto insurance advertising for six months, with the money saved to be rebated to customers. If it goes well, the ad suspension will be renewed indefinitely (with extension to other products such as chain restaurants that sell inedible seafood). Which reminds me - Flo vs. the Popeye’s lady, with play-by-play provided by the lizard. ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-geico/683400/23 "2014-03-12T00:54:59Z")
At least Geico finally let the Caveman go extinct. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-geico/683400/24 "2014-03-12T03:58:03Z")
> [@randompattern](#): > > Don’t forget about the worst one of them all…the Geico Pig! Time for a pig roast. There’s no danger of me ever signing up with Geico or Progressive, but that smarmy, shit-eating pig guarantees it. I was once amazed to find out there are people who LOVE Flo and her commercials. I learned that on the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-geico/683400/25 "2014-03-12T04:11:51Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > 15 minutes would have saved you this thread. Everybody knows that. ---
**Author:** ![Tall\_Nordic\_Slobby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Tall\_Nordic\_Slobby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tall_Nordic_Slobby)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-geico/683400/26 "2014-03-12T04:18:56Z")
My God- what have I done? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Tall\_Nordic\_Slobby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Tall\_Nordic\_Slobby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tall_Nordic_Slobby)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-geico/683400/27 "2014-03-12T04:36:00Z")
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