Things Only Ace Thinks About

Sometimes my life is boring. Sometimes it's interesting. Usually it's more often the former and not so much the latter. Sometimes I can make it through my day only by pretending I have a documentary crew following me around, and that's when I'm glad that my inner-monologue cannot be heard by others. Everyone thinks like this, yes? And everyone loves Elvis, and the Brady Bunch, and Stephen King, and birthdays, right?

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Aquadoodle

Ok, so there’s a new drawing/artistic toy out there for the kids. It’s designed to make the parents happy, since there’s no mess attached to it. You put water in this marker pen and then can draw on a pad, which apparently you can reuse until hell freezes over. Sounds great, right?

It’s called Aquadoodle.

The commercial made me laugh for ten minutes. My parents weren’t huge on the restroom euphemisms (although we would use the phrases “number one” and “number two” but my mom drew the line with “BM” which is my personal least favorite) but my grandparents used “doodle.” So Aquadoodle just sounds so gross to me. Way too vivid of imagery. And you draw with the Aquadoodle? You hold it in your hand and draw with the Aquadoodle.

The song for the commercial makes it worse, too. “I can doodle, you can doodle” and “You can doodle on your pets.” Ew, ew, ew. How is doodling on your pets a selling point?

In other news, I saw "Walk the Line" last night. Two very enthusiastic thumbs up. Everyone should go see it. Go. Now.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't even want to know how you would doodle on your pets.

11:24 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That should be your new euphemism for your dog's behavior toward your cat.

"Oh, my dog is aquadoodling on the cat again."

3:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Isn't aquadoodling on your pets only legal in Wyoming? Or does Idaho count on that, too?

4:56 PM  
Blogger Ace said...

Let's not toss Idaho in the Wyoming category. There is no aquadoodling on the pets in my household. At least while I'm at home.

9:46 PM  

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