Les Bonnes Choses

The thing about print is that it's often hard to identify irony or sarcasm. That's why emoticons were invented. Unfortunately, The Globe and Mail does not include smileys in its style guide. I am consequently having difficulty with today's question, "Can you get a decent watch for less than $1000?". Is this question being asked with a straight face? There's no :P at the end of the headline. You know, I remember there was this one time when discussions such as this were taken seriously. It was right before a sudden uptick in the production rate of guillotines in France.