This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Ring Around the Collar
Sep
5
2024
There are many ads on TV these days for various drugs and treatments for various ailments. Back when I was growing up, pharmaceutical companies didn’t advertise to the general public. So I have no memories of those commercials from my childhood.
Nowadays, it seems like over half the ads are for some new drug that I’m supposed to ask my doctor if it’s right for me. Well, not for these next several weeks as political ads have taken over. But once the election cycle is done I’m sure they’ll go back to normal.
On one hand it’s annoying seeing the same few commercials. On the other hand it’s nice of them to pay for the TV content, and someone’s gotta have the ads.
All of this to say, whatever happened to Ring Around the Collar?
Back when I was a child, that was the major ailment was plaguing everyone. At least that is how it seemed, based on the number of ads that were out there claiming to get rid of ring around the collar.
I’ll have to play some of those old ads for my kids, so they know how rough we had it growing up, and they can be glad that they live in a day and age where they never have to worry about ring around the collar.
As a note for the detergent makers, if you want to drum up more business, you need to find a more modern equivalent of ring-around-the-collar. My proposal: Ring Around The Hoodie. If there’s a way that someone’s hoodie could be perceived as not good, that might scare up some extra sales of your product.
By a great force my garment is distorted; It ties me up like the collar of my coat.
Job 30:18
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 11:04 am and has been carefully placed in the Marketing category.
