Brush-a brush-a brush-a; Here's the new Ipana

[austin_dern]

Way, way, way overslept today, cancelling vague plans to go to the Zoo. Just as well; I need the sleep, and the weather was dark and threatening rain, which would have made for lousy pictures even of raccoons and otters.

Finished off a tube of toothpaste. What makes this at commentable is according to the label it was manufactured in Spain; I bought it in Singapore, then brought it to New Jersey, to California, back to New Jersey, to Singapore, back to New Jersey, and back to Singapore before it was done. It has to have travelled, at minimum, about 80,000 kilometers. The overwhelming majority of people in the world haven't travelled that far.

Heck, through all history to about the 12th century there probably wasn't anyone who'd travelled that far. I imagine the first person with that much mileage would be an Indian or Chinese merchant who made annual trips with the monsoons to and from the Malay peninsula, but I don't know when they started regular circuits. It'd be neat to see a graphed estimate of how far the most-travelled person in the world had gone, versus time, though.

Next toothpaste, another globetrotter; I got it in K-Mart with those shirts. The number of (U.S.) varieties has exploded, and it's beyond silly now. ``Crest Energizing Mint'' promises ``Rejuvenating Effects.'' Sure. I haven't believed toothpaste claims, including the direction to not swallow it, since Aim wowed us with three stripes.

In the fabulous Ginza Plaza I was listening to a radio Top Forty Countdown and realized ... from the talk about Friday the 13th and the Opening Ceremonies that ... this was a rerun. I don't know why radio reruns startled me -- my favorite Internet radio stations are Golden Age rebroadcasts -- but it did. I just never thought of it happening.

Trivia: Rutgers University's original, 1766, charter is lost. Source: The Rutgers Picture Book, Michael Moffatt.

Currently Reading: The Clicking of Cuthbert, P.G. Wodehouse.

Comments

[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, "Rejuvenating Effects" is supposed to be a toothpaste marketed for women.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! You're kidding ...

Of course, I haven't seen any of the latest U.S. marketing. It's getting more and more bizarre every time I head back for a little bit.

[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

Would I kid about something like that?

http://www.cincypost.com/2002/jun/06/pgcrest060602.html

I've tried it because my friend's father is a dentist, so she gave me a bunch of free samples. It tastes odd (cinnamon instead of the traditional mint), but I thought it was OK.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I'm enlightened, thank you. I'm just amused by alleged grownups saying things like `` reframing the original oral care category'' with, I have to imagine, a straight face.

The toothpaste tastes pretty good, though. Hope it doesn't mess things up that a guy bought it; I'm secure enough in my sexual identity to use a woman's toothpaste.

I'll still be chuckling about it, though.

[luckybunny007.livejournal.com]

Hang on, now you're reading Plum?

This is too parallel. You have started on Flashman and Patrick O'Brian, right?

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Hee hee -- I haven't started reading Flashman or Patrick O'Brian, no. I'm happy to say as I age I better appreciate Wodehouse, though, which bodes well for the future. Actually, I just finished Clicking today, and haven't chosen my next read yet.