Occasionally, something is so familiar and part of the fabric of life that you just don't think about it. Like bananas -- totally normal everyday fruit, but then if you think about it a little too much you're like DAMN bananas are AWESOME and WEIRD.
Now that it's Christmas time, New York is overrun with people from the Salvation Army, ringing bells and collecting money for their various Salvation Army projects. For me, the phrase Salvation Army used to just roll off my tongue, and I never really thought about it -- until I passed by their headquarters here in New York and realized that not only are they a frickin' ARMY, but their slogan is BLOOD & FIRE. Good god! That's the best company motto I've ever heard. Can you even imagine any other company adopting a slogan anywhere even close to that? Like, Kraft Food -- Guts & Glory? Or Samsung - Death Before Dishonor? No, Salvation is alone in being that totally intense.
What brought this to mind just now is that I just found out that the Salvation Army newsletter is called "War Cry."
I know, right? BADASS.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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True, but I'm mildly disappointed that this post didn't talk more about how bananas are AWESOME and WEIRD.
I recently learned that Bananas used to taste better
A banana disease swept the world in the 50's so they had to switch to the current resistant variety.
Man, I miss the good ole' days when a dame was a dame and a banana split was a banana split.
Huzzah to Neal K!
No thanks to YOU, Stefan! (Ha-rumph.)
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