Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 05, 2012

Silly Trapper, nobody teaches children how to deceive. We’re born with that skill. This does, however, look like a great lesson in either marketing/sales, or government PR.

Thanks a lot, Richard!

Gato… hissss

(no, that’s a good thing…)

I hesitate at the mop bucket juicer machine!!!

Judging by the fact Caulfield is on the swim team stand, why do you think FRAZZ came up with the plan?

They’re playing Good OJ, Bad OJ.

Perspective is everything!

Very clever illustration of a principle. Or more than one…let me remember to adapt and apply this one. In the service of the greater good, of course. Anybody else ever ‘cast’ a political race? Noticed it?Everybody alert? Remember the concept of the ‘greatest number’…?

They are going to mop up.

There’s little or no real deception going on here, just manipulation. It’s “manufacturing a demand.”

Caulfield’s booth is delivering what it says – “Plain old O.J.” from concentrate, $2 a glass, as a fundraiser. That’s a fair price, for a fundraiser. But by setting up a “phantom competitor”, the customers see it as a choice: “Which stand WOULD I patronize?” becomes “Which stand WILL I patronize?”, and they sell more O.J. than if they’d simply set up one booth. And, as has been noted, it IS for a good cause.

And capndunzzl, if they were actually to use the fresh oranges for their product, both the capital outlay and the labor would diminish their efficiency. There are only enough oranges in the mop bucket to sell maybe 10 decent-sized glasses, and they’d then have to buy more. But this way those same fresh oranges can serve their purpose indefinitely (I’d suggest that plastic oranges would serve just as well, but that WOULD be deception, because someone might ACTUALLY want to buy a glass of the bucket-squoze product).

Double gro-an! :)

AshburnStadium: Good point. The 332nd Group in WW-II (aka Tuskegee Airmen, even though not all trained there) lost more pilots from drowning in the Adriatic than to combat. Jim Crow wouldn’t let them in swimming pools. Jim Crow Jr. just keeps the pools out of segregated neighborhoods today.

They managed that when I was in grade 2. We were bused to a local high school that had a pool, and got basic swimming lessons.

Okay, that was in the dark ages…

The way I see it, they are establishing the value of supporting the local team. Without the other option I might not consider supporting my team by buying “a cup of juice from a can”. It draws my attention to what I want for myself, but more importantly, that I want to support others.

I don’t even know what Australian Rules Luge might be.