Odd Spot
Posted on Friday, 14th May 2004 at 4:39pmI only noticed something odd today, which was that the bit of paper that covers the sticky part on Libra sanitary pads now comes with some facts on it…
I can just imagine the meeting at Libra…
The boss: “Ok people, we need to come up with something new, so the ladies will buy our products, any ideas?”
Jill, the only female in management: “We could make a commercial that pisses them off, thus making them remember us.”
The boss: “No, we need to think bigger people.”
Craig: “What about re-designing the packets once again, maybe we could find out a way to make an invisible case, so when it falls out of their bags there will be no embarrassment. We all know how the ladies hate tampon incidents.”
The boss: “We tried that last year, the test subjects couldn’t find the case once they dropped it.”
Ben: “I know! Why don’t we put silly little facts on the bit of paper that covers the sticky part?”
The boss: “Fantastic idea Ben, we could call it ‘odd spot’, it would be a hit with the ladies!”
Ben gets a raise and I write a blog entry about sanitary pads.
31 Responses to “Odd Spot”
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Lionfire comments: May 14th, 2004 at 4:50pm
It’s like Fantales… but not so… chewy…
or… something…
*ahem*
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Mel comments: May 14th, 2004 at 4:53pm
I love it! Shame I don’t buy libra.
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Jack comments: May 14th, 2004 at 6:16pm
Remember those cute little Leunig cartoons on the Minties wrappers? That’s what we need more of.
Shame I don’t buy Libra either.
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Bob comments: May 14th, 2004 at 7:19pm
Girls have all the fun!
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Snyke comments: May 14th, 2004 at 8:42pm
Isn’t it amazing what people do to sell their products?
The next step would be condoms with jokes on them… at least even if the relationship breaks up we can still laugh about it…
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Roanne comments: May 14th, 2004 at 8:51pm
I can imagine all the fun reading those bits of trivia while changing your pad! lol. it sure is the oddest place to spot such random info. Unfortunately, we don’t have libra here (i think). It would be more appropriate if they had put women’s hygiene-related trivia or anything that has to do with girls for that matter cause after all, it is a sanitary pad but then it wouldn’t be called an odd spot
Anyway, very interesting site Kitta!
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Sorge comments: May 14th, 2004 at 9:04pm
wtf Lionfire… eew!
Snyke, unfortunately for a lot of ladies, the joke is inside the condom
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Gerry comments: May 14th, 2004 at 11:08pm
lol its almost like the minty wrappers hehehe, oh and the fantales!
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Jade comments: May 15th, 2004 at 12:11am
That commentary reminds me so much of those Orange phone adverts they play in the cinemas here, have you seen it?
They host meetings with well established actors/directors/authors and basically think up ways of promoting the phone company within a film.
By the end of the meeting they come up with ideas such as;
the main character works hard in the rain forest as he wears his t-shirt with ‘I use Orange’ printed on the front. Unfortunately they get stranded but he still has his trusty Orange phone which not only allows him to call home but also manages to save the rainforest with one simple press of a button.Made me buy one.
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stu comments: May 15th, 2004 at 1:05am
ewwww dont even go there !
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Pugs comments: May 15th, 2004 at 1:11am
That must have been the weirdest meeeting ever.
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Malach comments: May 15th, 2004 at 2:00am
I don’t quite know what these things are, and I’m entirely positive I don’t want to. Seriously. No. No no no. No more of this. The thing bout the word that described when you can’t find the right word is entirely hilarious, but no.
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Matli! comments: May 15th, 2004 at 3:58am
This begs the question of how sales pitches for touchy subject type products come about.
Do they say one day…man our sales are just hurting…you know what we need is a flashy campaign to get us back in the + numbers, you know something that will get em coming back for more…Now hmmmm should we be tasteful and respectful or just come right out and grab em by the horns?
Next thing you know they will be promoting medicine to help older guys get their groove back…oh wait to late…
Man you know what they need…spring boarding off this idea…they should print on toilet paper with silly stuff like this and then you won’t need to clutter up the lue with magazines and such! YES Brilliant!
Some things just do not need to be promoted.
Signed,
Wondering what the world is coming to.
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Daniel Tomasiewicz comments: May 15th, 2004 at 5:24am
That’s… um…… great. Really… great. Just what women need. BTW, I think there’s something wrong with my grapes. I put them in the microwave, but they aren’t exploding
And the gum thing reminds me about somethin’ that happened when I was, like, maybe 7 years old. I was into hockey cards and all that crap, and they had these really old hockey cards for sale at Buck Or Two(probly bout 1984’s, I can’t remember though). Well they came with gum, like all the hockey cards used too, but I wasn’t thinking that the gum in the hockey cards would actually be from 1984 aswell
I was up all night holding the bucket.
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JIm comments: May 15th, 2004 at 6:23am
the worlds oldest gum is over 9000 years old?! well, hell i want 2 buy sanitary pads now.
by the way kitta, how come your headphones seem to glow in your cam pic? kinda cool but creepy in a ‘possesed-by your-headphones’ kinda way.
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ddewy comments: May 15th, 2004 at 12:48pm
I was in that meeting. They didn’t use my idea of prizes under the sticker. I was fired soon after.
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Mark comments: May 15th, 2004 at 2:27pm
I don’t know what’s weirder: the fact that you just wrote an entry about pads, or the fact that I just read an entry about pads. Either way, those odd spots were oddly interesting. Kinda makes me wish I had a uterus.
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Rachael comments: May 15th, 2004 at 6:42pm
lol. Malti, I think you’ll find they already have toilet roll for reading on the loo- http://www.justtoiletpaper.com/
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kenny comments: May 15th, 2004 at 11:56pm
i tried the grape in the microwave, it did not explode. it just got very hot.
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Kitta comments: May 16th, 2004 at 12:21am
They don’t explode!? Well, clearly whoever is hired to write the facts has been slacking off and is writing anything that enters their mind.
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No, the grapes thing doesn’s seem to be working. Anyway, why would you want to put grapes in a microwave? A fork is so much more fun :p
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Ella comments: May 17th, 2004 at 10:09am
Kitta, I can’t believe that you actually wrote an entry on sanitary products - highly amusing though, and personally, i’ve wondered about those facts since they first came out! Obviously the grapes one is incorrect, so maybe the others are too! However, that marketing ploy is better than the Kotex one for their ‘U’ brand… where it was shadow marketing for about 3 months before they told us what they were… and now the ads have people roling over them in steamrollers! Bwahaha
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AHHHH!!!
Foiled AGAIN!
Hex you cruel world and cleaver minds alike!!!!
Why do I waste my brain power on my ideas…they all get taken…
Signed,
Searching for a patent office
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Bekah comments: May 18th, 2004 at 8:23am
you know, personally, i think that Malach is younger than he’s telling us….
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Loddy3dots comments: May 20th, 2004 at 5:53pm
Hey kitta,
I wonder if Bazooka Joe has facts about sanitry towels in his gum wrappers?
Probably not… Might put people of hey… NOW DON’T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT! Someone had to bring it up… hehe…
Wuv ya! Thanks for posting on my blog!
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Jess comments: August 30th, 2005 at 6:33am
Why is it that we only get 10 different odd spots per pack of 10/12 pads? Boring! Out of the hundreds of Odd Spots they number, I’ve seen less than 50. Hmm, I get the feeling that they put so much effort into the ‘Odd Spots’ that they left out quality control. But I guess that’s another issue, which I will have to follow up. You’re getting sloppy, Libra!
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MonikaRose comments: June 24th, 2006 at 2:40pm
Hello
I really like these odd spots. But it is an odd spot to have them!
Anyways i was wondering were to get the list of these odd spots, is there a place on the net.
Thanks
Have a good day
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Georgina comments: July 15th, 2006 at 4:42pm
Libra decided to put facts on the pads after a study found men to have more factual knowledge than women by an alarming percentage. So why not try and turn that around by putting useless facts in a place men cant see.
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Kez comments: September 20th, 2006 at 12:00pm
I love the ‘odd spots’ on libra pads, i buy libra now just to read them! i never have found odd spot #1 though…
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Cheese comments: July 2nd, 2007 at 3:28pm
LMAO..
xD
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Paula comments: May 20th, 2008 at 12:01pm
Where do we get a full list of odd spot I keep them trying to get the whole lot how many #38 are there I have found three.
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