Re: Re*Big Cephalotus

Steven Klitzing (stevek@informix.com)
Thu, 15 Dec 94 10:49:09 -0800

Actually, marketing CP stuff is not a bad idea. I was out shopping
for my wife yesterday, and I ran into some really expensive china
or stoneware, and the design on one set of plates hand a VFT in
bloom, and some other botanical oddities on the other dishes.
Not unlike the pizza dishes you can get at K-Mart, it's just
that botanical nuts out there probably keep that line of dishes
going. I can see a guy sitting down at breakfast with his wife,
and there's a piece of bacon sitting on top of the VFT, and
a scrambled egg next to the pitcher plant.

Actually, Cephalotus teacups would be pretty cool to have. And,
for those of you heading into the jungles of Indonesia, you could
carry Nepenthes canteens. Actually, Nepenthes commuter coffee
containers might be very useful. To drink, you pop the cap with
your thumb and a spring pulls it back down when you're finished'
drinking. Make it out of plastic so it can have the same natural
colors. Or how about a mouse trap that looks like a VFT? Or a
gag gift, like a can of peanuts that you open...and out springs
a bunch of Darlingtonia pitchers. Or a teenage Utricularia
look alike used for getting rid of zits.

---Steve