The Pepe Appeal

We have been in correspondence recently with the writers of the popular blog, I Want One Of Those.

Danny, Dino and Jimbo Woot have come up with an ingenious way to rid the streets of red rubber bands whilst encouraging a spirit of competition amongst their readers & work colleagues.

They have invented a new life form - a life form called Pepe. Pepe is small and round and made up from red rubber bands collected from our streets. But Pepe can only grow if people send in red rubber bands to the boys who will "feed" them to him daily and keep him healthy.

The boys are offering random prizes to those who send in rubber bands to keep Pepe a "healthy bouncing baby ball".

Pepe and the boys are in competition with their Customer Services Team who are feeding an un-named rubber ball, which by all accounts is putting on weight quicker than Pepe.

Nobody wants to see a Customer Services Team win anything - so get behind Pepe and start sending him in some "food" now. Send whatever you can spare to:

Pepe Creative Department,
Unit C11 Parkhall Trading Estate,
40 Martell Road,
London,
SE21 8EN

Terms & conditions are here.

Now if I can just find someone who is making a dog shit ball then I would post their address on here and get you all to send them your dog shit.

Lessons From The USA

In the USA, they too are plagued by the rubber band menace.

Here in the UK we simply complain but Joel Waul of Lauderdale, Florida saw a beauty in the band, which we have missed. He embarked upon a project, which would make the most hardened postal worker shiver. He built the giant rubber band ball pictured above.

Many thanks to the Charleston Daily Mail for this report. It reminds me of what life is really all about.

As the article makes clear, he suffered injury and damage in his quest. His efforts have been rewarded by the ball being taken for display in a museum. What a man! He should be applauded by all of us and given a free life or, at very least, six years to make up for the time he has spent putting the bands together.

Read about his tremendous achievement here.