What Damage Control is Like
When the Name of Your Product Is “666” by Deuce of Clubs
I was walking the aisles of the local IGA grocery store with my friend Diane when she stopped and silently pointed to an item on the top shelf. It was a yellow box marked ith the mark. You know the one I mean–THE mark: the number 666. Closer inspection revealed (1) this was a box containing a bottle of cough syrup, and (2) it was the only box the store had. (I’ve since been on the lookout every time I go to a grocery or drug store, but this is the only instance I’ve witnessed of a Satanic haunting of an Arizona cough-syrup aisle.) Naturally, I had to find out why in the name of Madison Avenue anyone would name their product after one of the most enduring prophecies of evil in all the Western world. Stuffing the sides of my mouth with bunched up Glad baggies and affecting a hick/weedbender accent, I called the maker of 666 cough syrup, a tiny company down in Florida. It turned out to be a hapless receptionist’s initiation into the secret history of the Beast… ….. from http://www.deuceofclubs.com/write/666.htm
One response:You missed the sequel, which is even funnier 🙂
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