February 1, 2007
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The Daily News
1 Last night I found these paper towels that had little slogans on them.2 I think the brand name is Mardi Gras.3 Like I was just using them to pick up a spill when I noticed that they had messages on them telling us how to live. At first I just laughed. Stupid. Ridiculously absurd.
4 Each towel had some dumb sayings printed on it.
5 They were fortune towels, I imagine.6 The sayings were just dumb sayings, very surface.
7 We've all heard them a million times.
8 So I imagine they were actually surface towels.
9 I just enjoyed the fact that when I went into space, some fun pictures came back telling all of us that each saying, as dumb as it is, has things that simplify our lives. Some might enhance our lives. Most will be filled with whatever we spilled and chucked.
10 No clever quotes. Nothing literary. Nothing deep. An appeal to us being absorbed in our own lunacy is all. They're just doing what they were supposed to do.
11 Just simple advice from the same people who bring you toilet paper.
12 So today's DN is going to be the messages found on the side of towels, and that's it.13 Don't be so merciless. If they were in a fortune cookie during a life crisis, or on a poster in a store window on a rainy day, you'd think they were Providence.
14 Who knew that something as simple as a paper towel could be so outstandingly philosophical? I put the slogans on google and here are the pictures that came back.15 Nothing big. Very corny. I just like them on a Thursday morning. Coffee stuff.
16 So just read each, and have a beautiful day.17 That's it.
18 Later. Thanks towels.
19 Peace.
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