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Happy Earth Day from Wal-Mart

April 22, 2014 by at 1:39 pm

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  1. Janet says
    April 22, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    Well, I was going to go straight home, but I don’t know if I can pass that by. Every National Park I’ve ever visited was redolent of strawberries, so I can’t wait to get some of that stuff and enter into the Earth Day spirit.

    AMDG

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    • Matthew Lickona says
      April 22, 2014 at 1:47 pm

      It’s a great price for a limited-edition fragrance, crafted by AirWick’s skilled fragrance crafters.

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      • Janet says
        April 22, 2014 at 1:55 pm

        Of course! Wal-Mart always has the best products and the best price. The reason I know this because I’m blest to live in a place where there is no place else left to shop.

        AMDG

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        • JOB says
          April 24, 2014 at 8:58 am

          Given the Federally retarded rural life policy in this country, one that stretches back at least as far as FDR – I wouldn’t heap all the blame on WalMart – as I believe Rs and Ds alike have some splainin to do in this regard.

          After all, we can’t expect Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi to support their families without those farm subsidies!

          And while its true that Walmart and nature both abhor a vacuum, had rural communities been able to sustain living wages by maintaining control of their profit margin, WalMart would have never been given a second look in most communities and young men and women would not have been fleeing to the cities.

          Economy of scale, like the tango, takes at least two – buyer and seller.

          That said, I believe the picture above is a wonderful example of double irony: a faux scent for a faux holiday.

          In the Church, we had something called Rogation and Ember days.

          But that apparently got chucked along with subdeacons and maniples.

          So instead of incense, we have Airwick; instead of Dies Irae, we have the Pelagian substitute known as global warming – or is it climate change?

          Mutatis mutandis and all that…

          JOB

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          • Janet says
            April 24, 2014 at 9:17 am

            Oh, I know it’s complicated, but you know the lure of WalMart consists of more than low prices.

            “a faux scent for a faux holiday.” Only appropriate.

            I love Rogation and Ember days.

            AMDG

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  2. Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says
    April 23, 2014 at 12:49 am

    And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things….

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    • Matthew Lickona says
      April 23, 2014 at 7:15 am

      And since our fragrance-crafters gotta pay the rent
      They’ll dig it out and can it, whatever cost it brings.

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  3. Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says
    April 23, 2014 at 12:50 am

    Outtake from a Mike Judge show?

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  4. Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says
    April 23, 2014 at 12:51 am

    Okay, Yosemite’s accounted for. Now, where’s the one inspired by the Sulfur Cauldron at Yellowstone?

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    • Janet says
      April 23, 2014 at 5:49 am

      I was thinking something along those lines. There are some pretty yucky smells in National Parks. I know, because I live in my own personal national park.

      AMDG

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  5. JOB says
    April 24, 2014 at 9:04 am

    Also, I’m curious about the fifty-cent difference….

    An extra dash of limonene? One dollop more of hydroxyl radical? Hmm?

    JOB

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  6. Big Jon Bully says
    April 26, 2014 at 7:17 pm

    Diet Sprite.

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  7. Max Bialystock's Cardboard Belt says
    April 26, 2014 at 7:40 pm

    There goes the planet.

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