Poop Calendar Wars bring the funny (Imitation is the highest form of poo flattery)
When I made my Xmas wish list last Nov for my wife, at the top of the list was a calendar I had found online that featured a poop a month. I had just found Monthly Doos, and they make a dukey calendar - presumably dog poo. I wanted to hang it in my cubicle.
I emailed the poop calendar to my mother in law, my work friends. The poops in there are healthy and grand, I have to say. After some convincing my wife agreed to look into it. However it was sold out! DAMMIT. I so wanted a poop calendar.
Cut to Xmas morn - Marcel and Jen give me this thin package to unwrap and lo! - they’ve made me a poop calendar! The Clay Poo calendar. Mar and Jen had set to work making 12 staged photos of a spiral clay poo among Marcel’s toys, his drawings, out in the yard, etc. In my world, that’s when you know you are loved: when someone makes you a clay poo calendar. I now have it hanging in my cubicle, and my colleages think we’re all nuts.
Jen posted it on Zazzle so her friends in NY could see it, along with this disclaimer:
This is a play on another calendar that is out there, but my calendar is made of clay poo, not the real kind. Made as a gag present for my husband.
created by jenniferlgonzales (January 4, 2008 at 09:38AM)
So then, cut to this morning when Jen’s drinking coffee and checking email and she finds not one, but FOUR comments from Zazzle in her inbox, coments courtesy of the dog poop entrepreneur seen here:
ScottBrunton said:
on March 1, 2008 at 10:48 AM
The Clay Poo Calendar This comment comes from the originator of “that other” calendar the highly successful Monthly Doos. Jennifer, why couldn’t YOU come up with an original idea? To see the original go to: www,monthlydoos.comScottBrunton said:
on March 1, 2008 at 10:48 AM
The Clay Poo Calendar This comment comes from the originator of “that other” calendar the highly successful Monthly Doos. Jennifer, why couldn’t YOU come up with an original idea? To see the original go to: www,monthlydoos.comScottBrunton said:
on March 1, 2008 at 10:49 AM
The Clay Poo Calendar This comment comes from the originator of “that other” calendar the highly successful Monthly Doos. Jennifer, why couldn’t YOU come up with an original idea? To see the original go to: www,monthlydoos.comScottBrunton said:
on March 1, 2008 at 10:55 AM
The Clay Poo Calendar This comment comes from the originator of “that other” calendar the highly successful Monthly Doos. Jennifer, why couldn’t YOU come up with an original idea? To see the original go to: www.monthlydoos.com
Check the timestamps here, big Scott was steady mashing that send button, then he messed up his url and resent. Gotta get that active link.
Lest anyone forget, we are talking about calendars with pictures of dog poop.
So Jen replies back:
Actually, your calendar was sold out so my 7 year old thought it would be funny to make our own because it was something that my husband wanted for Christmas. In fact, I showed your product to about 20 of my co-workers as well. I would have bought yours if it was available. I wouldn’t buy anything from you now after your rude comment. I’m not promoting it and Zazzle hasn’t sold one- i put it up there so my out of state friend could see it. Geez.
So we haven’t heard back from dog poop guy yet, but I bet we will. We do a ton of word of mouth marketing for this guy’s product, because every time we share the clay poo calendar with someone we show them the original too. Unfortunately for Dog Poo Jones, this story is now part of our family poop calendar lore. I told Jen let’s hope he was drunk commenting and he’s not normally that aggro over his pictures of doodoo.
