Common Cold Survivor
A quick musing before i roll my body onto the mattress, the preferred medium for sleep.
I don't know who started the whole magnetic ribbon trend, but they must be making mounds of money. Heeps even. The variety of awareness you can place on the rear of your automobile is outstanding. From breast cancer to Iraq related ribbons to trivial little things that three Americans know about. The bigger the ribbon, the more aware its viewer will be. Then there are those bracelets that Lance Armstrong started; the "Live Strong" ones. Those have certainly taken off. Some of the kids at the daycare came in every day with three or four bracelets for different things. The sheer quantity of their distribution is close to the American flag bandwagon that everyone jumped on after 9/11. You couldn't drive down the street without seeing at least one car patriotically waving a flag on the antenna. I went a different route during the fad, however. I proudly raised a pirate flag. My car, when its colors were being flown, was nicknamed "The Jolly Roger". Anyone know where that came from? You've got two paragraphs to figure it out.
Tangents, always tangents. Back to the subject at hand. I would like to produce my own line of survivor ribbons and bracelets for the common cold. They would be a puke greenish/yellow color, resembling that of snot. I'm sure many an average citizen would be proud to display such an accomplishment. "Common Cold Survivor" they would say. Why wouldn't you be proud of that?
If you've had a scratchy throat, headache, stuffy and/or runny nose, sinus pressure, achiness, and you've survived the ordeal, you need a magnetic ribbon so everyone will know.
The Jolly Roger is the name of Captain Hook's ship.
I don't know who started the whole magnetic ribbon trend, but they must be making mounds of money. Heeps even. The variety of awareness you can place on the rear of your automobile is outstanding. From breast cancer to Iraq related ribbons to trivial little things that three Americans know about. The bigger the ribbon, the more aware its viewer will be. Then there are those bracelets that Lance Armstrong started; the "Live Strong" ones. Those have certainly taken off. Some of the kids at the daycare came in every day with three or four bracelets for different things. The sheer quantity of their distribution is close to the American flag bandwagon that everyone jumped on after 9/11. You couldn't drive down the street without seeing at least one car patriotically waving a flag on the antenna. I went a different route during the fad, however. I proudly raised a pirate flag. My car, when its colors were being flown, was nicknamed "The Jolly Roger". Anyone know where that came from? You've got two paragraphs to figure it out.
Tangents, always tangents. Back to the subject at hand. I would like to produce my own line of survivor ribbons and bracelets for the common cold. They would be a puke greenish/yellow color, resembling that of snot. I'm sure many an average citizen would be proud to display such an accomplishment. "Common Cold Survivor" they would say. Why wouldn't you be proud of that?
If you've had a scratchy throat, headache, stuffy and/or runny nose, sinus pressure, achiness, and you've survived the ordeal, you need a magnetic ribbon so everyone will know.
The Jolly Roger is the name of Captain Hook's ship.
posted by Still Daddy at 1:45 AM
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