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	<title>Procrastination Blog &#187; Nonsense</title>
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		<title>Meet the ProcrastBlog Mascot</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that businesses with mascots do better than businesses without mascots.  For example, Disney with Mickey Mouse does better than Six Flags with&#8230; uhh&#8230; Loony Toons, is it?  Right.  See right there?  Six Flags doesn&#8217;t have a mascot, it has flags or something. Take Australia and Brazil as another example: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_15" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 250px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-15" href="http://www.procrastblog.com/nonsense/meet-the-procrastblog-mascot/attachment/procrastination_header_imag/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-15 " title="Procrastie the Paperclip Art" src="http://www.procrastblog.com/wp-content/uploads/procrastination_header_imag-300x225.jpg" alt="Procrastie the unproductive, but unusually happy, paperclip" width="240" height="180" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Procrastie the unproductive, but unusually happy, paperclip</p></div>
<p>It seems that businesses with mascots do better than businesses without mascots.  For example, Disney with Mickey Mouse does better than Six Flags with&#8230; uhh&#8230; Loony Toons, is it?  Right.  See right there?  Six Flags doesn&#8217;t have a mascot, it has flags or something. Take Australia and Brazil as another example: <a title="CIA World Factbook entry on Australia" href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/as.html">Australia</a> with Koala bears clearly wins against <a title="CIA World Factbook entry on Brazil" href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html">Brazil</a> 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*.</p>
<p>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&#8230; or him: a mascot.  And he needs a name of course&#8230; like John.  <del datetime="2010-01-28T05:25:58+00:00">John would be a fine name&#8230;</del> nevermind John.  I didn&#8217;t mean to offend any Johns.  Right&#8230; we&#8217;ll name him Procrastie the Paperclip Art, because no one in their right or wrong mind would ever name someone Procrastie.</p>
<p>So there we have it: the ProcrastBlog mascot.  Success is almost certain now.  Just don&#8217;t confuse this mascot with Clippit.  You know: Microsoft&#8217;s failed office assistant.  Maybe this will help your memory:<br />
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<p>* There is one exception to this: Soccer.  Brazil clearly has more wins than Australia who despite my cheers at 6am in the <a title="2006 World Cup on Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_FIFA_World_Cup">2006 World Cup</a> 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.)</p>
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