Crumby - If You Got a Wide Zoom, Why Not Use It

Typically, Wide Zoom is not much utilized here at the CB since we are generally focused in on the tiny and far away. But the tiny and far away are in scant supply for the nonce, due to the cold and dry conditions. So Rayetta says to me, "Crumby, please go do something to entertain yourself." I thought for awhile about that and then decided to see if I could take a picture incorporating the Wide Zoom feature of the camera. What's fairly wide? Er. Three snuff cans are fairly wide. Plus the economy brands feature pictures of large or ferocious animals.

I happened to have three different snuff cans around, two in the trash under a pile of dust bunnies and a new one, still nearly full of snuff. So what I did was, line them all up and take a picture employing the Wide Zoom default camera setting. Wide Zoom is what the lens defaults to when a body first turns the camera on. But enough of all the boring technical details necessitated by point-and-shoot photography.

Let's consider all those manly animals depicted on the economy snuff cans. In this example we have a longhorn, a grizzly bear and a timber wolf depicted. All these are fierce, manly animals except for the longhorn which is manly, maybe, but not especially fierce.

So this got me to considering why economy snuff can advertisers use fierce, manly animals to appeal to the casual snuff consumer instead of smaller or more sedate beasts. Personally, I would like to have a Bunny Snuff brand to choose from. I would not hesitate to select Bunny Snuff at the convenience store if Bunny Snuff tasted within my tolerance limits.

Yepper. Bunny Snuff would have a picture of a cute little fat bunny on the can. Perhaps one of those bunnies with the droopy ears, and of course, a little whiskery pink nose.