George and Mary
George and Mary
[Prelude]
There's this really stupid bank commercial here from Cosmos Bank featuring two cartoon characters, George & Mary. Cosmos was the first bank to come out with a cash card about 3 years ago, and you always see George and Mary cut outs at the front door, or on billboards, or worse yet, the George and Mary musical theme song TV commercial. It's like Cats meets Jetsons kind of music.
[Dream]
The bank president calls me up. "My god, what do we do?"
"I don't know, what do you normally do?" I reply.
"George has died!"
"Oh that's terrible."
"Now Mary is all alone."
"My condolences. She'll manage."
He sounds panicked. For good reason. How do you explain the death of a cartoon character to the millions of people using their cash cards?
"But how do you promote 'George & Mary' cards when there is no George?" the bank president asks.
"Maybe your marketing people can do a campaign where Mary gets a boyfriend," I offer. "Jack & Mary. Bob & Mary. Steven & Mary. Take your pick."
"But people will be confused. We all could identify with George. He was why people focused on Mary."
"Dude, he's a dead cartoon figure. People will get over it."
Then I hung up and went back to sleep.
I've never figured out whether it's pronounced "Moe's (like owned by one of three stooges) or Moss (like that guy out of Bonanza), but the one down the hill from me is open until 2am most days, which means that if I get out of the club early enough, I can catch the best burger in town, the muo si la bao or the Spicy Mos Burger. They have lots of jalapenos and 
