I just happened to spot a completely surreal advert at the back of this Saturday’s Guardian. For our foreign readers, the Guardian isn’t like the National Enquirer: it’s a real newspaper, with sections and obituaries and adjectives and everything. It has a regular Bad Science column for debunking quackery. (Then again, it also has a weekly quackery section.) Anyway, suffice to say I was surprised to see this weird little item tucked away in a corner. I mean, if we wanted cheap pills surely we’d already be buying them off spammers? And then there’s the fact that it doesn’t actually tell you anything about the pills except that they’re blue. I draw a number of possible conclusions:

a) It’s a viagra thing, and I’m just not up on my euphemisms.
b) It’s like, whoa, the Matrix, man. The One will read it, and he will know.
c) It’s one of those special coded messages put in newspapers by cops trying to reel in a serial killer, or by the serial killer trying to reel in victims, or by another serial killer who’s pretending to help the cops but in fact he’s cleverer than them and he’s actually sending a double-coded warning to the other serial killer.

I know there are a couple of pharmacists who pop by occasionally. (Not sure about cops or serial killers or The One, though.) Anyway, perhaps one of you can help me out.