Tuesday, May 5, 2009

We get mail

The snail mail we receive here at the newspaper has diminished in recent years, but we still get plenty of it. Much of it is costly promotional material that goes straight into the "circular file," as we call the waste can. For instance: This morning I received a brochure from the National Watermelon Promotion Board. This organization's slogan is, "Make every day a picnic with watermelon."

As I read this aloud with a chuckle, one office wag suggested that a watermelon a day will keep the doctor away, or at the very least, dehydration.

3 comments:

Ellipses said...

If you recall the big summer story of 2008...

Watermelon makes you horny... I am super surprised that the watermelon industry hasn't seized on that little factoid.

Who cares about a picnic when you can be doing the horizontal monkey dance?

Anonymous said...

If they can make pocket-size watermelon, they got me.

Ellipses said...

What if they made a watermelon-sized pocket?