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"Babe's Bench"

posted 7 years ago by magolding-94772
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In "Babe's Bench" Nov. 19, 2016 Kenzie wears a white shirt with a lot of thin red horizontal bars on it. The shirt also has a lot of tiny little yellow or gold patterns on it. I think that I saw a kid wearing in a similar shirt design on some Disney or Nick show - perhaps it was Kenzie in an earlier episode.

This pattern reminds be of another pattern, this one from heraldry. The coat of arms of Hungary consists of two coats side by side, called Hungary ancient and Hungary modern. Medieval Hungarians Kings used them together or separately as their coats of arms.

Hungary ancient is described as barry of eight gules and argent or four red horizontal bars alternating with four white. Around 1200 AD there were varying numbers of golden lions and sometimes linden leaves on the red stripes but in later times the stripes are plain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Hungary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislaus_III_of_Hungary#/media/File:III.L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3.jpg

So by coincidence the pattern on Kenzie's shirt reminds me of the Hungarian coat of arms.

Babe says that 12,000 people walk by or sit on the bench per day. If there are between 0.25 people and 4 people walking by or sitting on the bench at any one moment, and there are 86,400 seconds in a day, the average length of time spend walking by or sitting on the bench will be somewhere between 1.8 seconds and 28.8 seconds.

I could probably walk past a bench in less than 1.8 seconds, and I usually sit on a bench for more than 28.8 seconds, so the average is an average of short lengths of time for passing the bench and longer lengths of time for sitting on the bench.

If someone is sitting on the bench for a few minutes he won't be noticing the message behind him, and will be blocking it from view by people passing by. And someone walking by the bench in a second or two might not notice the message on it.

So being walked past or sat on by 12,000 people per day might not spread the message very well. And the side alley in a bad neighborhood doesn't look like a place that gets much through traffic so I doubt that it actually gets 12,000 visitors per day.

Moral: don't let 12-year-olds decide how to spend the marketing budget.

[–] neglndr 7 years ago

Babe had a good idea but she went about it the wrong way. She should have bought a bench somewhere in an area heavily visited by tourists.

[–] magolding-94772 7 years ago

Probably the ad bench salesman was wondering how he could ever get anyone to pay for advertising on that particular bench, until Babe showed up. Then he would have told her that particular bad bench was just as good as the best benches in the city and other lies.

I wonder if Babe actually bought the bench itself or merely the advertising rights to the bench. In the latter case it would have been a crime to remove the bench and take it to the office. I'm sure that Bunny and Ruthless wouldn't worry about that. No doubt Double G pays all their legal expenses and hires the best defense layers. Otherwise they'd already be in jail because of all the illegal things he orders them to do.

One way to make the best of the situation would be to contract an investigative news reporter - preferably TV news, preferably a national channel - to investigate whether Babe was swindled by the ad bench salesman. A widely-seen program mentioning Game Shakers should be good marketing.