The Swine Flu's PR staff are rockin' out

[pseydtonne]

One benefit of being unemployed has been a lot of sleep. When I sleep a lot, I don't get sick. Thus the world's low-level panic about the swine flu has been just barely of interest to me.

I was researching ferry crossings of the Saint Lawrence River (in English for your convenience) when I found this killer logo:



AIDS has a catchy name and breast cancer has a pink ribbon, but H1N1 got a graphic designer. I think more diseases need fashion teams if they want to be conquered. Herpes, Alzheimer's, OCD? I'm talking to you guys.

Type 2 Diabetes gets some celebrities, but it's mostly that grumpy guy from The China Syndrome:


At least the clap has a filk, thanks to Lenny Bruce. In How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, he suggests "Cure the Clap today, in the U.S.A.!" is if it were a new Chevy. Come to think of it, how many people have caught gonorrhea in the back seats of Chevrolets?

Note: The previous paragraph is not meant to suggest any causal relationship between General Motors, its divisions or its products and the acquisition of sexually-transmitted diseases. Everyone knows you can only catch VD from toilet seats (Genesis 27:11).

OCD should have a full campaign for its eradication. The process of creating such a campaign would do wonders for its victims because we'd all be so busy working on it. As of now, all we have is my mother's vanity license plate. I wish I had a photograph of it, but it's a Love Your Library plate (sample image here) that reads OCDOCD. Yeah, I'm jealous too -- and it was my idea.

Anyone else got a disease that needs better PR?

-Quebecois residents have the highest tax rate in the Western Hemisphere and now you know where that money goes... marketing!

P.S.: The correct verse should be Romans 3:13.

Note to self: I really hope people click on the Biblical links or these jokes won't work.

P.P.S.: Yes, I'm the kind of agnostic that thinks it's wicked funny that God tells someone to wear a jock strap when he's gonna talk to Him. "I'm God! G-Oh-muthuhfuggin-D! I can tame the Leviathan! I can unsnarl traffic in New York City! I create diseases! By the way, good job about being faithful to me. Here's your family back and then some. Who's got an infinite number of thumbs and made you in His image?"

Comments

[proudlyfallen.livejournal.com]

Bipolar needs better PR! Or at least more truthful PR. (Wait, isn't that an oxymoron?) The only context people have heard of mania in is either "my ex-boyfriend's best friend's ex-girlfriend's mother's cousin had bipolar disorder and they committed suicide!" or one I just heard a couple weeks ago, "You're so lucky, I wish I had panic-attack-inducing hallucinations rendering me unfit to drive a car, be out in public, or relate to reality in any way!"

Seriously. I don't offend easily, but that offended me. He did apologize though.

And hey! What are you doing up now if you've supposedly fixed your internal clock? (I have an excuse; I need to be up at 3:30AM anyways. I can sleep on the plane.)

[sariel-t.livejournal.com]

...lol.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

It's an improvement. I am getting up around 11 this week and working toward getting up at 10.