Archive for the 'Personal Products' Category

Yikes!

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

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Image: (Murine) via  medexsupplu.com; (Van Gogh) via thesartwolf.com

Coconut Scrub?

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

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A Jelly Roll Morton composition…

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Flora indigenous to the Los Angeles basin.

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Images: (Jelly Roll) g.sheetmusicplus.com via free-scores.com; (coconut tree) via vacancesohsoleil.com; (Softsoap) via splendid.com

I love Gillette products…

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

because they are not only well-made; they also sponsored hundreds of World Series games, scores of unforgettable prize-fights and…King Gillette was a great figure in the history of American business.
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I indicated with a red circle and star that portion of the packaging which involved me in a hotel bathroom escapade which rivaled the fight of […]

NASA Halts Test Of Space Station Urine Recylcer–Reuters headline, 3/22/2009 4:59pm EDT

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

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OFFICERS

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MEN
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Images: (Officers)  interior-farm2.static.flickr.com; urinals-farm4.static.flickr.com; sign-buffaloah.com;(Men) interior-NASA.gov; sign above urinals-tkdtutor.com; gents-bbsignwerks.com; urinals-

‘(The) former Illinois governor plans to write a book “exposing the dark side of politics.”‘

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

 I thought he had already done a good job in achieving that goal.
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Publicist: Ousted Illinois governor to write book
2 hrs 17 mins ago
CHICAGO – A publicist for Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY’-uh-vich) says the former Illinois governor plans to write a book “exposing the dark side of politics.”
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Images: (nitro label) kmhk.kmu.edu.tw; (nitro) tracefireandsafety.com;(barber) reference.findtarget.com via wikimedia.org; (shop) […]

Does anyone recall when hand and body soaps carried the names of flowers? Afterward, one heard references to mountain streams, ocean breezes and natural phenomena. Now, even that has changed to the sure-fire American money-maker…

Friday, December 12th, 2008

FOOD!!
 
When I stepped into the shower this morning,
I found a new entrant to the realm of body washes.
Its name forced me to think we were at the beginning of a long process
in the association of eating and everything else which gives pleasure.

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There can be no mistake here.  Three foods in one bottle.

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Damn…it comes down to this!

Monday, November 17th, 2008

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Image: (Coleman/Franken) via washingtonpost.com (Rush L) via newsbusters.org; (pope) bp2.blogger.com via janetpain.blogspot.com; (others) cited elsewhere in blog

Speaking of the Church’s tribulations…

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

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Image: (machine) sent as photo by my son; (Dempsey’s) via farm2.static.flickr.com; (pope) (symbols) wikipedia.org

GRIM MOMENTS IN MARKETING…XXIII

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

In a rushed shower before going to work, I discovered there was no bar of soap, so I grabbed a bottle from my wife’s stash.  Don’t scrub your face with exfoliating soap unless you want the feeling of having climbed out of the water at Cape Cod’s Nauset Beach or having motorcycled through Needles, California […]

Behold his mighty power…

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

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As can be seen on the studio clock, Sarah Palin suffered from the late 80s’ big hair phenomenon. Early in 2002, researchers at the University of Iowa discovered that when critical mass was attained by the correct combination of set-spray, styling gel and mousse, one’s hair-do would expand to consume all in its path. A […]