Hello My Name Is

I've worked a lot of odd jobs in my day. In fact, I still do. Everything from washing jets for the Air Force to being a gardener at an international school in Eastern Europe. At some of those jobs I've had to wear name tags. I still have jobs where I have to wear name tags and it got me thinking about peoples names, what they do and where they might have to wear name tags. Most are for jobs, but one can also wear them for job interviews, class reunions and community parties. I've seen a few funny and humorous ones in my day and I thought it might be nice to collect the best ones and put them on a website. People could take photos of funny name tags that they see and upload them to the site themselves. For example, at one of my jobs my name tag has my name and then my favorite movie from a certain studio in Hollywood underneath. So, it says Joshua and then underneath it says, The Jerk. Now, if someone is just reading this quickly it would seem to say Joshua the Jerk. Come on, that's funny. That's just one example. Have you ever seen funny name tags or badges? Send them to me and I'll post them.

Infomercial Parody: Water Notifier

Perhaps it's all the time spent staying up late that has me watching inane infomercials or the fact that they are inescapable in the daytime too. Whatever it is, they all seem to look and sound the same. First it's in black and white with someone struggling to do the most simplest of tasks, like opening up a jar or changing a light bulb. Then a serious voiceover comes in and says, "Has this ever happened to you? Well not anymore, thanks to the revolutionary (fill in the blank product)! It then turns into this colorful commercial with music and flashy edits and suddenly all the people are happy. Well, I had this idea and it's such a dumb product but I could actually see people buying it. The product is a round plastic disk that fits over a standard water glass. On one side is a big cartoon drop of water and on the other side is the same big graphic of a drop of water, this time in a red circle with a line thru it. It is a plastic disk that you take out to restaurants to let the waiter know if you want more water or not. I don't know about you, but I hate having to keep telling the waiter to bring me more water, or when I'm full, to not give me more water! It's silly right? But just picture the infomercial, a woman out to a fancy dinner and she drinks up all of her water so fast and now to wait for the waiter to come around and uh oh, what if he doesn't notice she needs more water? All of that would be a thing of the past with the Water Notifier (WN)! She simply puts the WN over the rim of the water glass with the large water drop showing and presto, the waiter knows she wants more water. She can also flip it over when she is done with the water so the waiter doesn't have to interrupt the table conversation to ask if they want more water. He'll already know thanks to the Water Notifier! Since most of these commercials try to sell multiple kinds of the same thing, you could have other notifiers for other liquids. Coffee! Juice!! Tea!!! The possibilities are endless!!!! Okay, I'm gonna work on the parody commercial with a buddy of mine who has a camera. Stay tuned!