Thursday, June 12, 2008

Beech-nut...uh...beach-nut s' got 'em

The southern United States is home to such colorful creatures as red-and-black banded alligators, coral snakes, corn snakes and desertland gila monster lizards; moving northward, the woolly-bear caterpillar shuffles through northern hardwood forests, ultimately contacting the complementary red-and-black striped salamanders.

What to think about this cavalcade of red-and-black creatures, some clearly poisonous and others merely showy and attention-getting? A new set of labels offered from the many printing companies advertised within Sunday newspaper ad-sheet sections and Direct Marketing Association package fillers? A trip to the vintage record store to acquire a copy of theme 'The Blue Oyster Cult' song titled, 'The red and the black'? Many boxloads of screen-printed jersey shirts?

Almost no one thinks "Arson".

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