Do These Bar Codes Make Me Look Fat?

[Thom Courcelle]

Stripes can be slimming--if worn in the right direction. But Dean Marks sent me a BIG mail art piece with stripes in every which direction!  Hey wait... that's one of his famous bar code masterpieces!

I thought there might be a secret message hidden in the jumble, so I brought this piece to the grocery store and asked the check-out girl to scan it for me.  Then she said I owed her $1,068.35!  I asked her what the exchange rate was in Euros, and while she was distracted looking for a calculator, I beat it outta there!!!

On the reverse side of the mail art piece there is a picture of a very attractive skinny girl in a bikini. Dean said that all the cereal boxes in France have pictures of scantily-clad women on them.  

This seems rather funny to me, but I also know that France is all about EGALITÉ... so there must be another food product in France that always depicts bare-chested men in form-fitting shorts... I just don't know what food product it could be.  Maybe this one???...

Vive la France!!  Thanks for this classic mail art piece, Dean!

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

$1,068.35 what a bargan!  Thanks for this very funny blog which is better than the Mail Art.  I'll keep an eye out, but our Pepsi packages don't look anything like this one.

   EGALITÉ goes down the drain when it comes to marketing!

Please note: "Dean said that all the cereal boxes in France have pictures of scantily-clad women on them."  Actually this is not completely true.  Captain Crunch still has a fully dressed Captain Crunch on it... actually we do not have Captain Crunch in France.  Capitaine Croquer won't make sense. 

     But we do have "Frites et bâtonnets de poisson Croque Capitaine" (Crunch Captain French Fries and fish sticks).  That's enough culture for one day, I'll have to lie down now.

    Thanks again Thom