| Trivia that has wings: Menstrual Madness |
| Wednesday, October 12, 2005 |
It's red day and so if you don't want to hear about that-time-of-the-month look away now.
Here in Australia the colloquial name for those white (often-winged) panty-saving products is surfboards. Recently the company that creates the surfboards I use began emblazoning the rip-off strip with trivia. I'm not kidding. It's like a bizarre variation of the jokes in Christmas crackers. Things like "Apples are better than coffee at waking you up in the morning", "Elephants only mate when it's raining in Quebec"; that type of thing.
My thoughts, in no particular order.
1. Why? Just why? When are you meant to read them - on the loo? But then don't you just rip the strip off afterwards? I do.
2. Are they special mood-enhancing facts? It doesn't seem like it. It just seems like odd trivia that when repeated makes you sound madder than usual PMT-mad; then that is enhanced by the fact that you repeat them after emerging from a toilet.
3. It makes it difficult to tell people whereabouts you got an interesting bit of trivia from. Oh yeah on my pad just doesn't cut it as a verifiable source. And frankly I don't believe them either. |
| posted by Cleo Twyford @ 12:03 AM |
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