The Onion Summary

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Instant slushie makers and bubbles you can hold are products millions see in commercials. Society gawks at the amazing product, only to order it and find out that all it claimed to be was not true. In an article featured in The Onion, the author mocks the various marketing techniques used to attract. They are often unreasonable, unrealistic, and unbelievable.
Not every individual is a science whiz, so marketers use the customer's lack of knowledge to attempt to fool them. MagnaSole inserts, claims to establish a correspondence between every point in one’s body: “special resonator nodules implanted at key spots in MagnaSoles convert the wearer’s own energy to match the Earth’s natural vibrational rate of 32.805 kilofrankels” (lines 45-48).