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Flipping the
Finger, Flipping the Bird, Flipping the
Bone
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Q: Who needs the BoneStamp® the most? | ||
| A: No question about it, anyone who has a problem with any aspect of authority. Whether your problem stems from not having enough power or having way too much, BoneStamp® is for you. This broad category of happy prospective owners includes all those below. | |||
Too Much Authority |
Not Enough Authority |
Resent All Authority |
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quality control inspectors |
students |
hackers |
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bureaucrats |
convicts |
heretics |
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salesmen |
house painters |
anarchists |
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IS managers |
parents of adults |
self-employed |
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college professors |
graduate students |
grad students & college professors |
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payroll clerks |
working stiffs |
U.S. Post Office employees |
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Look, there is a real need, someone has to make and sell these things. The problem is that it is difficult to offer a tasteful website when the product being offered is so vulgar. Yet, we should be reminded that the word "vulgar" stems from the Latin root meaning "common" and not "obscene" or "tasteless." There is no question the gesture imprinted by BoneStamp is common; even base. It is this very common quality that gives the signal it's popularity and longevity. Flipping the bone was embraced in Ancient Rome; prospered and spread in Northern Europe and Britain during the dark ages; and probably arrived in the New World aboard the Mayflower. Precisely, because it is so common and base, we find its use curiously delicious ("delicioso," as Fellini put it). The waving bone's meaning is coarse and its implied threat is primitively ominous. The asserted bone makes men feel, for just a second, like the sentient beings men once were. It distracts us from sensing what shrink wrapped, emasculated, industrial head drones we have become. When a middle finger is thrust into the air in anger, we hear the call of the wild; we get a glimpse of a different kind of masculine nervous excitement; the kind of excitement that comes from brutally chopping down a tree (felling a "widow maker"), instead of the kind of nervous excitement that comes from toadying up to a garbage man wondering if he will accept an unbound bundle of recycled newspapers.
Oh well. . .If you are searching for clues as to what brought us to this line of work and how we run our business: check out BonePhilosophy and Dr. BoneOne.
We are the sole creators, manufacturers, and purveyors of the rubber BoneStamp (BoneStamp $14.99, BIG MAN'S BONEstamp $24.99) and the original software flip-off application for Windows95/98/NT (Virtual BoneStampRegistered Ver 1.00--$9.99 & Beta Ver0.99 free). All our products are available only on the Internet. It is also our pleasure to be the fiduciaries and Internet hosts of the Bone Gallery, the world's largest assemblage of flip-off fine art. Finally, we are the founders and curators of both the BoneMischief memorabilia collection and the BoneCelebs photojournalism collection of alleged/insinuated/unattributed giving-the-finger artifacts.
Attention: Clever Retail Merchants, Bartenders, Traveling Salesmen, Bouncers, Realtors, Pimps, Cocktail Waitresses & Drug Dealers! We have Wholesales Deals on Bones by the partial gross.