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The Lynx Effect
August 6th, 2005 at 22:11
The second most odd thing happend at work today. It appears that the so-called “Lynx effect”, actually works! The question of scientific phenomenon or marketing slogan aside, I was complemented by a handful of people (women, more precisely) at work by my erm… smell, and it was down to my “wearing” Lynx anti-perspirant.
It was odd. I mean, if people are complementing me on how I smell now, does this mean that I smelled particularly awful before? It made me quite self concious.
I don’t even want this attention- I have no desire to break out into a dance, or control what a woman does by doing various gestures, like the adverts would have me believe. In fact, this attention is unwanted- for at least one reason. Additionally, I like being slightly mysterious and not part of the main tillmonkey society- I’m an elitist. Today I was reading a piece by Noam Chomsky in The Independent whilst my co-workers were reading about Big Brother (no, not Orwell!) in Closer Magazine.
(To clarify: I would like to control what everyone does, but through some sort of control panel with a bank of monitors, as opposed to making gestures and using an aerosol.)
Tommorrow morning, I’m going to go to the nearest field, and roll around in the mud, and hopefully manure, for a bit.
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