Some observations from Doris on marketing, maps, money, moustaches, and many other things mostly beginning with m.
The potential winner of today’s Creative Marketing award was going to be the gym that advertised its cut-price membership with the marquee announcement:
PAY DIDDLEY
FOR YOUR SQUATS.
But alas they were soundly beaten by the AutoMan Empire (you gotta pronounce it with an American accent) with the cleverly concealed Turkish crescent and star in their logo.
Meanwhile today’s Not For Navigational Use award went to this converted oyster shell.
Savannah’s local history museum had some real pieces of eight. Yes indeed they are real in both meanings of the word, because exhibit 5 is a coin worth 8 reals, and exhibit 8 is one piece of that which is worth 1 real. Extremely satisfying.
The museum also featured the winner as well as a very distant runner-up in the I’m Too Sexy For My Moustache competition.
And finally in the long-distance mortuary that is the RoadKill score, we have several raccoons, many armadillos, quite a few deer and amazingly one still-alive tortoise, observed halfway across the road and still going strong. “Hello! Don’t bother waiting for me! Oh, you didn’t.”