Saturday, September 10, 2005
They'll Take To The Streets When This Gets Out
Who? You ask. The environmental whackos, of course.
Bic, the company that has made a fortune out of things to be thrown away, has sold its 100 billionth disposable ballpoint - selling an average of 57 pens every second since it was launched in 1950.No doubt, even now they are planning the protest -- to be held in a field opposite company headquarters. I can see it -- They'll build a scale model Arc de Triomphe and bury it in pens while some sit in sackcloth and ashes, and others, dressed as skeletons, sacrifice "mother earth" to an idol shaped like dollar sign by burying it in a pile of disposable lighters. It'd be funny if it wasn't so close to the truth
According to the company, that is enough pens to stretch 40 times the distance from the earth to the moon if laid end to end or to fill the Arc de Triomphe 23 times over.
