Tag: humor
member name: Birdie Jaworski
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July 30, 2006 01:59 PM EDT --
Last fall, Avon Corporate made a power play. The hell with serving half the world! We're applying phallic logic! They printed thin glossy catalogues featuring items like battery-operated nose hair . . .
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July 30, 2006 11:18 PM EDT --
Two years ago my tomcat, Jeff, ate my green parakeet. I bent over, into the white wire cage, changing poop-splattered newspaper, and wiping the manzanita perches with a warm soapy washcloth. I didn't . . .
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August 06, 2006 10:50 AM EDT --
Listen to the Avon Prison Blues here!
The Avon Prison Blues
© me, apologies to J. Cash
I hear the truck a comin'
the delivery man's my friend,
and I'll be packin' product till . . .
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August 01, 2006 09:54 AM EDT --
I grew up in a decaying East Coast Victorian mansion with a forever crabgrass yard rolling to a lonely farmer's field. My town was poor, we were poorer, and my sisters and I spent sweaty summer afternoons . . .
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August 03, 2006 10:46 PM EDT --
Two nights ago I gathered up a handful of the latest Avon brochures, fifty of the new Avon Men's Catalogues, a bag of men's Ab Cream samples, and my demo bottle of the brand new Today fragrance . . .
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August 15, 2006 01:43 PM EDT --
"Mesmerize" your audience, Dave!
The top ten reasons why David Letterman needs an Avon Lady:
10. Add pizazz to your pencil toss with Avon Glimmersticks! It's America's number one eye-liner! . . .
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August 09, 2006 10:07 AM EDT --
One of my customers ordered the new Avon Thinner Digital Precision Body Fat and Hydration Scale. Aimee lives alone, in a second-story brown stucco condo facing the west lagoon. I spent an hour with her . . .
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August 14, 2006 09:06 PM EDT --
The night before last I woke up at two in the morning because my dog was whining and scratching at the wall. Now, my dog is known for her neuroses, but this was new and disturbing behavior. I sat up and . . .
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April 01, 2007 09:53 AM EDT --
As a prominent Avon blogger, each quarter Avon sends me an advanced sample of a new product. Regular reps get the same advanced sample one month later. Honestly, most of the time these advanced samples . . .
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November 27, 2007 07:27 AM EST --
My memoir, Don't Shoot! I'm Just the Avon Lady! is now available to order! Thank you to my publisher, Menendez Publishing ! A few of the many funny and touching stories in my memoir appeared . . .
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June 10, 2008 12:10 PM EDT --
I read a forum post about the power of the avocado seed. It seems that some adventurous folks grind their avocado seeds into fiber-rich smoothies accented with various greens and fruits. Avocado . . .
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August 30, 2007 11:20 PM EDT --
The clouds that blanket the Plains of San Augustin rarely notice the science traveler, the Mescalero Apache, the patchwork family with a bag of marshmallows and one unused match. The clouds push from . . .
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