Things I see here and there...

I'm in sales and marketing so I notice ads and sayings and promotions. Here are a few that have stood out lately.

I was driving my Suzuki C50 to work last week, I see a large billboard that reads: "Celebrate Life."

I love that saying. It's what I believe and try to do. Every day. So you can imagine my outrage when I saw who was advocating celebrating life: a local funeral home. Now, why do they do that? Celebrate Life works for a church, it sounds good for beer and maybe a pro life ad or even a birthing hospital. But a funeral home? Like people going there can be fooled that a funeral home is a place where happiness resides. I know them as a place where people cry and weep. It's a sad place where people mourn loved ones passed on. Celebrate life my ass. Take it down. NOW>

Here's something I loved: A bumper sticker I saw today was so good: What Would Scooby Do?

I love that! What would he do? Ask Sham Sham!

And this last one. I came upon http://www.treehugger.com/ one day and it's all about...well, yes living green, the environment and you guessed it, tree hugging. I don't mind tree huggers... I actually like them. I live on the land and love it... I was insistent when we built our house on raw land not to destroy trees, I like whole wheat bread with sunflower nuts for crying out loud. However, I don't look down my nose on white bread lovers and try to convert them to wheat.

Treehuggers.com proselytizes as if we all should be like them. Well, maybe we should, I don't know, but I'm not. I confess I refuse to recycle until China does something. Most of Treehugger has blogs and posts mainly, ads about themselves, eco toilets (which I need for my pool area) and composting. Then there it was...I could have sworn I saw a GE ad. That's General Electric...you know... that ECO giant...the first thing that comes to mind when green corporations are discussed?...that mega tree hugging monstrosity. That's a bit hypocrital... don't you think?

Well, ok... here's one more.

Green Edition of the monthly Affordable housing magazine. An Asian woman in of course... a green shirt... with really really big hands. The caption over her says:

"I want lawyers who know that beign green takes more than recycling old ideas."

*The disclosure at bottom of page says: The person in this ad is an actor depicting a fictional event.

NICE! That builds my confidence that these guys really are on the up and up!