Crocs Gone Viral, More Reasons to Hate Them
A few days ago I saw a dude in the “local” supermarket with crocs on. Orange crocs no less. And the thing about dudes wearing crocs is that dude crocs are huge even in normal sizes. Not huge like, “Whoa, this burger is huge!” No, huge like, “Everybody run it’s coming right for us!.”
So this chance encounter prompted the following tweet on The Twitter.
A few minutes later I received an email from The Twitter informing me that I had a new iFriend following me on The Twitter and this new iFriend was crocsinc. You know where this is going.
Clearly some marketing-bot intern over at crocsinc has been assigned the barbarous task of monitoring The Twitter for mention of crocs. The only logical course of action is to mess with crocsinc.
Which elicited the following inflammatory response from crocsinc:
Clearly, marketing-bot does not realize crocsinc is on a slippery slope to become a lightning rod for so much pent up misanthropy.
Stay tuned.
31. July 2008 at 23:14
Also, I just realized that Crocs are what Bowser’s Goomba mushroom troops would wear if they had feet.
1. August 2008 at 08:35
timely post today, although i had noticed your mounting twitter tirade. i saw my first man-crocs in the halls at school yesterday…i actually backed away in terror and disgust. they seem to be the footwear of choice for med students, which goes against the whole principal of protective footwear (they are full of holes! sharps can puncture your feet, people!!!)
1. August 2008 at 11:43
i love that you’ve picked a fight with the people that make crocs. classic.
1. August 2008 at 18:58
Okay Josh…I held out buying CRICS until they came out with high heals that are as comfortable as the originals but are not easily identified as such! It tells me they have an underying knowledge of their product!
1. August 2008 at 21:05
Yes, I see the high heels on their website. I guess they do have an underlying knowledge of their product, which I would say is this: crocs are hideous and in order to sell shoes, they are making their shoes not look like crocs.
6. August 2008 at 12:57
Dear Josh, who knew Twitter and bold-faced, naked aggression and hostility would go so well together? I for one am a fan.
7. August 2008 at 00:01
i love your twitter-ing.
and i just noticed your link to our blog. thanks.
7. August 2008 at 22:26
@Science, is there anything I can’t make work with naked aggression?
Answer: No.