Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Yvan eht nioj

It occured to me that some people don't watch The Simpsons. The significance of my blog's name would be lost.

So here is a little tutorial.

On a classic Simpson episode (yes, I realize that they are all classic), Bart and his friends get recruited into a boy band, of N'Synch quality. The band manager is a man named L.T. Smash who appears to be a cool rock'n'roll dude. Little do they know, this new boy band is a new recruiting tool for the US Navy. The songs they record, lip-synch and gyrate to are subliminal recruitment campaings. L.T. Smash is really a Navy Lieutenant, cleverly hiding his rank by not hiding it at all.

Last summer, while volunteering at a kids camp in Ontario, I had my campers always asking me about my job and what it was like. My kids got so excited about my job, that I jokingly told my co-counsellors that I was L.T. Smash, doing a subliminal recruitment campaign. However, keep in mind that these ADHD kids were easily excitable, and that I am actually not a subliminal recruiter for any armed service.

Yvan eht nioj. Yvan eht nioj.

1 Comments:

Blogger DV said...

Maybe you don't realize it but you probably did a subliminal recruitment campain by being a model for those kids. Recruitment for being a good citizen and a person who care for the next generation. We are as a service member, sommes toujours regardés, observés et dépendemment de notre comportement: cité en exemple ou décrié.

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