AUTHOR: Dave Sypniewski DATE: Sunday, May 01, 2005 ----- BODY: These awareness bracelets are big sellers, but at $10 a pop, I'd rather wear the colored rubberband that's wrapped around the morning paper! Posted by Hello I'm mad as hell about these "awareness" bracelets and it all got started by Mr, Tour de France, Lance Armstrong. The guy had testicular cancer and one of his peeps told him it would be a great idea to sell these yellow bracelets to people with the money going to the "Lance Armstrong Cancer Foundation." I thought that was a good idea and great marketing on someone's behalf. Now, I've gotta tell you, if Lance Armstrong still had any nuts, I'd kick them so they would pop out his mouth! Because of one bracelet, all of a sudden this has spiraled out of control. There's one for every color in the spectrum, some for legitimate causes, and others for goofy crap that nobody cares about. You can get them with the colors of your favorite baseball teams! I do know the Cubs recently gave them away at Wrigley Field. So what? You put on the blue and red bracelet and everyone knows you support the Cubs? How silly!. This is all confusing too. Up until The Lance Armstrong one came out, I thought yellow was the ribbon you wore to support the troops? If you buy the yellow bracelet, does that mean you oppose cancer AND support the war? I thought those ribbons that everyone wore for a long time went too far. At first it was a red one for AIDS, then a pink one for breast cancer, then a blue one for child abuse and even a black one for 9/11. Then it was the ribbon magnets for the cars that also started out yellow for the war, then went red, white and blue, now I see that too comes in many colors for many things. You can have a black one for the POW's in Vietnam, there's a green one that shows you care about the environment too. As far as the bracelets go, I've got some ideas for a few colors that people might be sure to buy. Purple could show you're still a Prince fan after all these years, brown could show you're having a shitty day and you want everyone to be aware of it! Orange lets everyone know you're a Carrot Top fan, even pink can be awareness that you're a Squealing Pig fan! Heck, I'll make 'em up and sell them on here, but not for $10. I'll let them go for $9.99! Do we really need all these stupid bracelets? Why not just give to charity without expecting a payoff? And THAT'S the way I see it! -------- Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!: The Michael Jackson awareness bracelet starts out black, but as time goes by slowly fades to white!

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Sunday, May 01, 2005

The Michael Jackson awareness bracelet starts out black, but as time goes by slowly fades to white!

These awareness bracelets are big sellers, but at $10 a pop, I'd rather wear the colored rubberband that's wrapped around the morning paper! Posted by Hello I'm mad as hell about these "awareness" bracelets and it all got started by Mr, Tour de France, Lance Armstrong. The guy had testicular cancer and one of his peeps told him it would be a great idea to sell these yellow bracelets to people with the money going to the "Lance Armstrong Cancer Foundation." I thought that was a good idea and great marketing on someone's behalf. Now, I've gotta tell you, if Lance Armstrong still had any nuts, I'd kick them so they would pop out his mouth! Because of one bracelet, all of a sudden this has spiraled out of control. There's one for every color in the spectrum, some for legitimate causes, and others for goofy crap that nobody cares about. You can get them with the colors of your favorite baseball teams! I do know the Cubs recently gave them away at Wrigley Field. So what? You put on the blue and red bracelet and everyone knows you support the Cubs? How silly!. This is all confusing too. Up until The Lance Armstrong one came out, I thought yellow was the ribbon you wore to support the troops? If you buy the yellow bracelet, does that mean you oppose cancer AND support the war? I thought those ribbons that everyone wore for a long time went too far. At first it was a red one for AIDS, then a pink one for breast cancer, then a blue one for child abuse and even a black one for 9/11. Then it was the ribbon magnets for the cars that also started out yellow for the war, then went red, white and blue, now I see that too comes in many colors for many things. You can have a black one for the POW's in Vietnam, there's a green one that shows you care about the environment too. As far as the bracelets go, I've got some ideas for a few colors that people might be sure to buy. Purple could show you're still a Prince fan after all these years, brown could show you're having a shitty day and you want everyone to be aware of it! Orange lets everyone know you're a Carrot Top fan, even pink can be awareness that you're a Squealing Pig fan! Heck, I'll make 'em up and sell them on here, but not for $10. I'll let them go for $9.99! Do we really need all these stupid bracelets? Why not just give to charity without expecting a payoff? And THAT'S the way I see it!

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