Friday, February 04, 2005

A Sisyphean Proposal

For quite some time now, the selling of stadium naming rights has been a big income generator. Corporations pay anywhere from a few hundred thousand to several million dollars a year to have their name pasted on a stadium or arena (ESPN has an interesting list here). The benefit to the corporations, of course, is that they get their names mentioned and their signs seen during sporting events. Initially, there was some grumbling from fans over the loss of traditional stadium names, but now most have gotten over it and accept that their favorite team plays in an arena named after a phone company or bank.

I’m sure you’re aware of the state quarter program of the U.S. Mint. Minnesota is the next state to have its quarter released. The design chosen contains a lake with a duck and men fishing from a boat. Yawn. Why not scrap the boring, clichéd design and sell the rights to our quarter design? If people want to keep the quarter Minnesota themed, we could even limit the bidding to Minnesota companies. For a nice fat fee 3M could engrave it with Post-it® notes or Scotch® tape. Medtronic could put a pacemaker on it, or the Mall of America could put on their logo.

People go out of their way to seek out new state quarters, just think of the eyeballs the advertiser would get. Considering that the quarter will be around for years and years, I think a fee in the tens (hundreds?) of millions would not be out of the question.

Sure, some may object that the state quarters are supposed to reflect the heritage of the state, but that’s why we limit it to Minnesota companies. Everyone knows that Minnesota has lakes, but not everyone knows that we are also the home of the Post-it® note.

I can’t even see the lefties complaining about this one. What are they going to do? Accuse us of over-commercializing money? Come on folks, it’s a win-win situation. Let’s replace the lake with a stream – a revenue stream.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

---BUNNYPANTS WEARS THE CROWN--

Kerry took a dive in the election race…
now i've got egg on my face…
bushpussy cheated like we knew he would…
our pseudo-democracy appears to be gone for good…

i got drawn in, i even cared…
kerry quit, didn't care if the race was declared…
both were cousins, and were skull and bones…
america collapses, world calls in its loans…

the grand result of a well thought out plan…
manipulate the masses, they all pay the Man…
one world currency, one world police…
micro-chipped population, all freedoms cease…

manipulate the dummies, divide and rule…
dumb down the masses, don't fund the schools…
propaganda is the news and up is down…
democracy's in the past, bunnypants wears the crown…

history repeats itself, the masses never learn…
salem witch trials are coming back, they want everyone to burn…
low-lifes and lizards fight over the spoils of pimping the fear…
we evolve out of their dimension and into the clear…

george bushpussy couldn't finish hitler's poop…
c'mere judith miller, i've got your scoop…
half-wits, nitwits, dipshits and dumb twits…
lizards, politicians and bankers can eat shit…

we're not afraid, we poop out our fear…
the love vibration scares them just like a mirror…
they're on the wrong side of history, it's the evolution of the soul…
these scum can't touch us now even with a ten foot pole…

good riddance lizards, and cRapture heads...
go shape-shift back to your cages before your skin all sheds…
the truth comes out via the internets…
you rule us no more, you become our pets.

== LOVE reduces fear to nothing… LOVE is a stronger vibration…
This is an actual fact... Hate is merely fear of the unknown…
Therefore, with fear eliminated, hate vanishes. ===

9:52 AM  
Blogger Sisyphus said...

Well, I guess it's time to do something to class-up our clientele again.

8:21 PM  

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