Points to ponder I

Why does any self-respecting salad contain WHOLE cherry tomatoes? Has any chef out there given serious thought to what happens when you coat a cherry tomato with oil, set it on a glassy plate and then hand it to someone to spear with a fork?

Stab. Sproing. Splat. Stain. That’s what happens (she said, as she futilely dabbed at her grease-stained shirt).

And how come the local dayspa is now offering “ritual pedicures?” Do these guys ever read their own copy? Common usage is a tricky thing that can bite you in the fundament if you’re not careful.

There’s nothing in English textbooks to prohibit offering “ritual pedicures”…but do you really want to do that when “ritual killing” and “ritual murder” are media buzzwords? Prolly not. As for me, I’m already seeing newsflashes like this one:

Esthetician Misti Metootzies was convicted of three counts of grooming with special circumstances in the horrific ritual pedicure of a Hillsboro woman.

And what’s going on with Geico? Now there’s a company with a sense of humor. After getting a wicked-juicy black eye for discriminating against foreigners in the 90s and sued again last year for discriminating against blacks, Geico chose to make fun of bigotry in some very clever, “so easy a caveman could do it” commercials.

But now the ads are getting darker and darker, with newscasters, shrinks and arbitrators siding with Geico against the caveman. What used to be funny now has me wondering what kind of corporate mind would portray Geico as still not getting it in the face of some pretty negative PR? It’s kind of like Enron publishing Enron jokes.

Stick with the gecko, folks.

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