I spent part of the day at Angie's as she's getting her house painted and doesn't want the dog to roll in the paint. Fine with me, as I can work from anywhere with a computer. I brought some paperwork with me, typed furiously, and walked the dog. No problem.

Later, we had this conversation:

KestingAJ: hey, this your gold earring type thing that's here? like a double hoop?
sjerslix: Oh, it's a paper clip. And yes
KestingAJ: fancy paper clip
sjerslix: Feel free to use it to, um, clip things
KestingAJ: okey dokey
sjerslix: One of the tchotchkes generated by BrassRing.
sjerslix: Get it? A Brass Ring?
KestingAJ: I don't think I'm classy enough - oh I get it brass ring!
KestingAJ: too bad it wasn't called nipple ring.
sjerslix: We tended to call it Ass Ring
KestingAJ: lol. I like that
sjerslix: The logo pretty much forced us to-- it was of this stick-figure guy (which the head honchos called Flash, and which everyone else called AssMan) straddling the Ass part of Brassring
sjerslix: You can see it here
KestingAJ: ass man - that is HILARIOUS. Love the logo.
sjerslix: We paid someone for that! No WONDER they had to lay me off -- they were spending money on AssMan and fancy paper clips.

They have since changed the logo, to something much more tasteful and less asslike. I have no idea if they're still producing the fancy paperclips.

Note: I have no idea if the production of cool paperclips was actually at all related to my layoff. Maybe it was the beanie babies instead.