# Video ad on Cecil's column web page??!?

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**Created:** [December 14, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-ad-on-cecils-column-web-page/606154 "2011-12-14T12:29:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-ad-on-cecils-column-web-page/606154/1 "2011-12-14T12:29:22Z")

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I just got a video pop-up ad on the Straight Dope page for Cecil’s column. There was no close button.:mad: I had to navigate away from the page to shut the stuid ancestor-intercoursing thing off. Bad SD web page! (Gets newspaper to roll up) If this is a feature, wish it into the cornfield. Many of us read the SD at work.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-ad-on-cecils-column-web-page/606154/2 "2011-12-14T13:07:51Z")

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> [@Typo\_Knig](#):
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> I just got a video pop-up ad on the Straight Dope page for Cecil’s column. There was no close button.:mad: I had to navigate away from the page to shut the stuid ancestor-intercoursing thing off. Bad SD web page! (Gets newspaper to roll up) If this is a feature, wish it into the cornfield. Many of us read the SD at work.

What was it advertising?

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-ad-on-cecils-column-web-page/606154/3 "2011-12-14T17:17:08Z")

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Some insurance thing. I wasn’t paying attention. I was trying to find the close box. Something about people who got this insurance were standing with their arms in a certain way for their “happy dance”.