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August 01, 2007
Get your message straight
Now that I have to be to work at 9 am, I've found a new appreciation for what a hassle riding the subway in the morning can be. For example, yesterday I spent my commute standing next to a guy in a sleeveless t-shirt. This wouldn't have been a problem necessarily, but he also chose to hold onto a railing way over his head. Naturally, his open, exposed armpit was inches from my face.
Speaking of armpits, I noticed today that Mitchum Deodorant had two advertisements in the train car, but they had inconsisten messages. One ad read, "A Mitchum Man's shirt has no white residue... Chilidog stains are another story." The other said, "A Mitchum Man's shirt is clean, but not his mind." According to one ad, a Mitchum Man's shirt is clean, while the other posits he has chilidog stains.
Which is it, Mitchum???! This is waffling of the highest order. Now, I agree one interpretation of the "his mind is dirty" ad is that the clean shirt refers to deodorant residue, and not chilidogs. But, if that is the case, they chose poorly. If "clean shirt" meant "no deodorant residue," they should have said that. They didn't, and I was left puzzled as to what exactly a Mitchum Man is: a guy who has clean shirts, or a guy who gets chili on it? Is he a fastidious, metrosexual dandy, or a man's man who drinks beer and belches?
It doesn't really matter to me anyway. I'm not a Mitchum Man, I'm a Rite Guard Man. What does that say about me?
entry no. 925
Posted by oz115 at August 1, 2007 09:25 AM
Comments
Screw the chilidog. Hot Dog Taco is where it's at. Mitchum man is a pussy.
Posted by: G at August 9, 2007 09:46 PM