Overheard

“Anyone who buys a car called a Mini and then complains it isn’t big enough is an idiot.” Mini owner, Mission Viejo, California

Tag: cars

“Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing, producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy… Making bottles to meet Americans’ demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 US cars for a year. Worldwide, some […]

“There will be cynical people.” Gillette’s Wade Bayne, on public reaction to their new 5-blade “Fusion” razor

Tags: business, consumerism, design, lifestyle, marketing, simplicity, social

“If two blades is good, and three blades is better, obviously five blades would make us the best fucking razor that ever existed. Comprende?” Razor industry parody, The Onion (2004)

Tags: consumerism, funny

“One of the great non-profit credos is if you show up and you see someone doing something different and something novel that makes you turn your head, that’s something worth supporting. A lot of the support for this starts from disbelief. People just come out to see if this is for real.” Matt Blair, […]

“The one thing we learned from the hippies, and the one thing that the punks should have learned and they didn’t, is that anarchy is obsolete, especially in a robust capitalist society. By learning that, we realized that change in this culture is going to come through subversion, not rebellion. We’re not going to overthrow […]

“Mr. Lucas, of Star Wars fame, needed to raise cash to settle the divorce and decided to sell a smallish piece of his Lucas Film empire. Steve Jobs was interested but deemed Lucas’ original asking price 30 million dollars, too high. Faced with the aforementioned need for liquidity, Lucas decided to let the company go […]

“God has an interest in our sexuality. God invented it.” Pastor Ivor Grant

Tags: christianity, lifestyle, social

“No one has ever done Clark Kent to Superman; showing the difference between these two guys. And Frank can do it. He can do the body language in a way you’ve never seen it. You’ll actually see his whole posture change and his paunch disappear and his three chins disappear. This is a complete […]