Attention-Grabbing Advertising

The other day, I was reading through the New York newspapers online, checking up on Yankees news. I was going through the Newsday Web site, when an ad they were running caught my eye. The page looked like this:

a Web page

In case you can’t see it from there, let me zoom in for you:

Your mom is here.

First question: How do they know?

Second question: The federal government is spending our money on your mom jokes?

I have to admit, while I ignore most ads on the Web, I actually looked at this one.

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