R#34 | Upside Down Pineapple

Dear CustOMER,

That was a fun week. We heard from so many of you for the very first time … and we were pleased to be able to send hundreds of copies of REMORANDOM #1 to good homes. The reader feedback HERE is still very encouraging, e.g. "wild mish mash of eclectic curiosities", "read it from cover to cover as soon as I received it", etc. … although I'm still wrapping my head around the three words "ideal toilet book".

Some of you have indicated that you can think of many people for whom this would be a great gift. There's still a bit of time, but I would advise you to get onto it sooner rather than later. We only have what we have, with no plans as yet to reprint; so when you know how many you can put to good use, you would order them HERE.

Back at HQ we are accumulating the stories for RR#2. As I write this email we are 42% the way there and a full third of the ideas so far are YOURS and not mine. Most people I meet seem to have at least one suggestion … and this is the way it's going to grow.

Upside Down Pineapple

REMO introduced its Upside Down Pineapple design in 1990. Little did we know at the time that one day that symbol would come to be associated with something quite particular, namely swingers, i.e. people who enjoy having sex with third parties in tandem with their partners.

So the idea for one of the stories we posted this week was triggered by this amusing customer email:

“We live near Chicago now and my husband is a college professor and a preacher. His classic ‘look’ is a t-shirt and blazer.  One of the [REMO] favourite shirts I gifted him was the upside-down pineapple. He was a guest speaker in Green Bay, Wisconsin recently and afterwards at a pub  the barman, who had been at the church service, asked John (a little uncomfortably), if he knew what his shirt meant? ‘No idea, my wife gave it to me.’ Thanks for telling me I had given my husband a swingers symbol!!  Any other ‘coded’ pictures that would be inappropriate for a vicar’s wife to gift? I guess I’ll find out in your next book.”

Get the full Upside Down Pineapple low down HERE.

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German engineer Ernst Walter Hoffmeister designed and patented an amusement park attraction in 1948 that would earn him fame … and a modest amount of fortune. The Rotor is a large, upright barrel, rotated to create an inward acting centripetal force supplied by the wall's support's force. Once at full speed, the floor gets retracted (eek!) … leaving the riders stuck to the wall of the drum. It may look precarious, but they won’t fall down. At the end of the ride cycle, the drum slows down and gravity takes over. The riders slide down the wall slowly.

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