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Procrastie the unproductive, but unusually happy, paperclip

It seems that businesses with mascots do better than businesses without mascots. For example, Disney with Mickey Mouse does better than Six Flags with… uhh… Loony Toons, is it? Right. See right there? Six Flags doesn’t have a mascot, it has flags or something. Take Australia and Brazil as another example: Australia with Koala bears clearly wins against Brazil with not a single marsupial that comes close to the Koala, even though Brazil is in fact larger by area than Australia and has roughly a bazillion more species of animals.  No mascot, no wins*.

So with this research in mind, I figured that ProcrastBlog must have a mascot in order to be better than its competitors (you know who you are). So I made some Office Supply Art utilizing some readily available paperclips and dimes. And there we have it… or him: a mascot. And he needs a name of course… like John. John would be a fine name… nevermind John. I didn’t mean to offend any Johns. Right… we’ll name him Procrastie the Paperclip Art, because no one in their right or wrong mind would ever name someone Procrastie.

So there we have it: the ProcrastBlog mascot. Success is almost certain now. Just don’t confuse this mascot with Clippit. You know: Microsoft’s failed office assistant.  Maybe this will help your memory:

* There is one exception to this: Soccer.  Brazil clearly has more wins than Australia who despite my cheers at 6am in the 2006 World Cup was taken down by Italy in the Round of 16.  (Brazil beat Australia in the Group Stage, but went on to lose to France in the quarter finals.)