All in a day's thought
Virtually every minute of every day, thoughts and ideas are constantly sleeting through the net of my mind; most of these thoughts dissipate into the cognitive ether forever, and only a tiny fraction of them are retained that eventually find their way into idleThinK. I have grown tired of this, and so I have decided to keep a pen and some paper handy, and write down my thoughts in brief as they occur to me, so that I can commit them to virtual space at the end of the day. It's almost like a "Save the Dolphins" initiative, albeit there not actually being any dolphins, unless an intangible, fleeting thought is anything like a dolphin. So actually, it's more like a "Save Rachel's Mind" initiative, which is really nothing like a dolphin. And anyway, it's not even like I'm "saving" my mind. My mind does not require saving. So really, it's not actually "almost" like a Save the Dolphins initiative, and in fact I suppose I should replace "almost like" with "nothing like", to be accurate....which kind of negates the purpose of this entire half of the paragraph. So, well, anyway, I digress. Chronically.
I saw the funniest advertisement in the train yesterday. It was a poster of KFC's tortilla-something-or-other, and involved a photo of a huge tortilla overflowing with fried chicken bits, lettuce and generous dressing, or something. And right below it, plain as day, was the following:
Serving featured is for illustration purposes only
Maybe it's just me, but doesn't that strike anyone as a legal way to say "This poster is one huge lie"? Consumers are supposed to accept that there's no way in hell anyone is going to get a tortilla that big, with that much chicken in it. What is probably going to end up on your plate, when you have trotted along to KFC having been magnetically attracted by the disclaimered advertisement, is a sad looking scrap of dough with a miserable number of chicken pieces that you can count on your left hand in it. And possibly three shreds of cabbage. I thought that was funny. I laughed aloud in the train, and people looked at me like I was crazy. I am not surprised.
I also saw this other hilarious advertisement on the way to the LRT station. A large, ostentatious sign above a furniture store proclaimed proudly that
"We're not fancy...but we're cheap!!"
The first thing I thought was that it really should be "We're not fancy...so we're cheap!!" And the second thing I thought was, "Or maybe it could be 'We're not fancy...because we're cheap!!" And the third thing I thought was, "So...why would you want to advertise any of those facts, anyway?" I mean, surely something like "Cheap furniture!!" would do better than advertising the fact that it's a) not fancy and b) cheap-looking. And for some reason I found the whole thing quite hilarious. So, again, I laughed out loud, and to the unwitting observer, it was apparently for no reason whatsoever. Now my family thinks I am crazy, too.
...This is a rather strange entry...stranger than most. I'm feeling rather odd. It must be the chronic lack of sleep I've had in the past few days. Apologies.