Just to run the numbers here: Say that I get four colds a year. (We are on cold #4 this week, alas.) Each cold lasts about two weeks.* So that's eight weeks--TWO MONTHS A YEAR--that I spend sick. (And how much over a lifetime? Forget it, I don't want to know.) And yet I only take a handful of sick days each year. The rest of the time I am slogging away, powered largely by decongestants. Imagine, all that productivity thanks to modern OTC drugs! This leads me to think that perhaps instead of being sponsored by Fanta, my daily life should be sponsored by Sudafed.
*This sounds extreme, but it is actually a huge improvement over my childhood, which seems in retrospect to have been one long ear infection.
Posted at December 16, 2004 07:09 PMJust read your Fanta post as well.
Unfortunately these days corporate sponsorship means the opposite - we pay *them* to wear shirts with Fanta logos, have Fanta logos on anything, use their name in relation to any event.
Something tells me we (the general public) have been duped!
Posted by: Sivani on December 17, 2004 03:14 PM