Miniature Snowmen as Cartop Decorations

Well hey there! Thanks for orbiting by today. Drop down right next to the coffeepot; fill your mug; roll a snowy coconut doughnut onto your place and listen to this. They say there's a sucker born every minute, right?

When snow is free of cost, who’s going to pay for snowmen, right? Wrong! Apparently, people will buy anything if you sell it right. These two Chinese men have hit the marketing jackpot – making the most of heavy snowfall, they’re selling snowmen by the dozen.

The two men (we don’t know their names or who they are), make snowmen for cars in the suburb of Chengdu, in Southwest China’s Sichuan province. A photograph taken on 10 February shows them placing snowmen with orange eyes, noses and buttons, on top of a customer’s car.

According to some reports, they had sold over 100 snowmen before noon that day. Other pictures show several cars lined up in a street, all sporting snowmen on the roof. It certainly made for a festive display. It was as though the frozen figures were cheering on the traffic.

So like, if I've got this right, they sell these snowmen for the tops of cars...the cars heat up...the snowmen fall off and...the car owners have to buy new ones, eh! Wow! What a marketing ploy. I'm surprised the car manufacturers didn't think of doing something like that themselves...wait a minute...come to think of it, isn't that called Planned Obsolescence?

See ya, eh!

Bob