During the middle of the night, I had a brainstorm. No, not a nightmare, but a brainstorm.
I know mine is the minority opinion here, but I don't think my fellow alum Skins and the elusive enigmatic Elad make enough money, for all the troubles they have with the primitives always whining or bawling or complaining about this thing or that thing.
I think Skins and Elad deserve five or six times the money they get.
From the primitives, of course.
And besides, anything that subtracts from the primitives' available drug money is good for society anyway.
Better in Skins's and Elad's pockets, than in the grubby hands of the local drug dealer.
I was thinking about avatars; how they could become a cash cow on Skins's island.
Now, in case one doesn't know, primitives are allowed to choose only avatars from a selection offered by Skins, and it's a pretty paltry collection.
However, if a primitive donates, the primitive gets to use an avatar of his or her own choosing.....provided it goes through Skins, Elad, and Lord Marblehead EarlG first. One of the Big Three has to "approve" an avatar before it can be displayed on Skins's island.
That's probably the reason the free avatars are so crummy; Skins is no fool, and by offering substandard free avatars, it encourages the primitives to donate, so they can have better avatars.
Anyway.
As most here know, nominations for the Top Ten DUmmies of 2011 begin 23 days hence, and then during the first two weeks of December, voting commences.
I'm wondering if perhaps it might be a good idea for my fellow alum to design a special avatar to be sold only to those primitives who've ever been a Top Ten DUmmie (since the compilation started in 2005); some sort of avatar that proclaims "#03 Top DUmmie of 2007" or "#09 Top DUmmie of 2009" or "Top DUmmie of 2006," and so on.
After all, it's a high honor, a true distinction, to have been a top primitive, and so those past winners would use their avatar with pride.
And the avatars could be graduated in price. For example, a primitive who's been #10 Top DUmmie one or another year, would pay $10; another primitive who's been "09 Top DUmmie sometime or another, would pay $20; a third primitive who's been #08 Top DUmmie in the past, would pay $30, and so on and on until a primitive who's ever been a Top DUmmie, would pay $100 for the avatar.
I'm sure this sort of thing would bring in bigger bucks than that stupid "hearts" thingamajig they pull.
Think of Anne, trotting around Skins's island with that gold-plated "Top DUmmie of 2010" as her avatar.
And think of Skins and Elad dividing up a hundred bucks between the two of them.
Some primitives might protest, but problem solved; Skins could make purchase of the avatars mandatory.
I can't imagine what such avatars would look like, but I'm sure my fellow alum could design something.
