Elite Canadians Collecting PEZ and Battery Powered Lawnmowers
Post by Robert Campbell on Jun 09, 2010
Let’s start this journal update with good news… As an online storytelling service, Smojoe likes to hand craft happy endings, and we’re especially fond of documenting Lenzr photo contests, especially when prize winners send in proud photography of themselves with their winnings.
Slimmswitch won the Neuton CE6 battery powered lawnmower courtesy of a Toronto area grass cutting service. That’s a happy ending. The sponsor was thrilled too; they used the Lenzr platform to promote their solar powered organic lawn care business and used contest messaging to get their name passed around in social networks.
Slimmswitch reports that the high technology lawnmower is flawless. It’s good, fast and really quiet. He’s been tweeting about it @LOCOHIPPO. So have I, and in keeping with my tradition of packaging top shelf ideas as fragmented stories, I’ve been putting a lot more resources on Fotki, and webshots. You can find more details there and on Lenzr photo contest blog.
There’s a disproportionate amount of Ontario private school alumni among the Companions of the Order of Canada.
How to Win the Order of Canada is a cute little Factoid that has fun at the expense of our nation’s highest civilian award. The piece is good press about Canada, and shares insight into the process by which our nation’s most extraordinary citizens prepare themselves for the history books. There are over 2000 Companions in the Order today and 18 of them graduated from this Ontario private school, my client.
While researching the article I learned that former Premier of Newfoundland, Joey Smallwood declined appointment as a Companion in the late 1970s because he felt that as a Father of Confederation he deserved a knighthood. Smallwood was never knighted and later accepted induction as a Companion into the Order of Canada in 1986.
Factoidz is a great little website for reproducing the most information rich bits of your client’s message. My favourite ‘home run’ happened here last year when I wrote and published what soon became an immensely popular factoid entitled ‘How To Win The Miss Teen Canada Beauty Pageant’ complete with links to the MTCW website.
Sometimes, growing pains can really hurt. Michael Cayley has asked myself and others to help him promote Change Camp which came to my attention as part of an email dispatch from HumberPR. Michael was quick to add that registration is free this year thanks to the generosity of Microsoft.
According to Wikipedia, Pallett Valo LLP is the largest law firm in Peel region with eighty employees, and twenty eight lawyers. They’ve had more than one notable case, however only one appears on the company’s Wikipedia file.
Smojoe on Collecting PEZ Dispensers
I’m attracted to the bizarre world of PEZ collectors. Did you know they host weekend conventions to shop and share the secrets of their subculture? I’ve seen it. At the event they speak on everything from history lessons to hosting trading posts for avid collectors. Their weekend events are brief glimpses into entire lives spent strategically collecting these candy dispensers.
Some dispensers are worth more then others, and many common units today are going to become much rarer than others in the future. Two very collectible units today are Pink Panther PEZ and Shrek Donkey PEZ – these two models have been earmarked by Steve Reynolds as hot collectibles for the future.
Pink Panther PEZ Dispenser is Special
Thanks Steve Reynold for giving up a matter of time to show me around your store. I wrote about my own encounter with a Pink Panther PEZ Dispenser on Robsome, and that rendition grew larger and then transformed itself into an article on Dumpdiggers.
My unmitigated passion propelled me closer to Collecting PEZ Dispensers in the Dumpdiggers Library, next I started a thread on the discussion forum inviting folks to upload pictures of their own PEZ collections.
