Want to support the troops? Send them a pair of dancing mammaries …
Jingle Jugs is pleased to announce the kick-off of its “Send a Rack to Iraq” campaign, a unique and light-hearted effort to help raise the spirits of military personnel stationed abroad. Commencing immediately, anyone who purchases a set of Jingle Jugs may buy a second set, for an additional rate of only $32.99 (shipping is included), to send to a soldier in Iraq. Jingle Jugs purchased for Soldiers based in Iraq will be shipped to random soldiers identified from a list posted on AnySoldier.com. If you wish to make a soldier’s day, please click on the ”Order Now” button and follow the instructions.
Additionally, in an effort to thank America’s soldiers and to help raise the spirits of those injured, a Jingle Jugs convoy will be departing Los Angeles, CA in the coming weeks (TBA) bound for the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C.
During the month long road trip, which will be spearheaded by Jingle Jugs‘ own US Army veteran, Keith Jones, the convoy will stop at a variety of locations across the country, including military bases, military hospitals, and large events to hand out Jingle Jugs and garner financial support and increase awareness of America’s injured veterans and their families. For each set of Jingle Jugss sold during the convoy, the Jingle Jugs team will donate a percentage of the proceeds to charities that support America’s veterans, such as the Fisher House Foundation, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Paralyzed Veterans of America, and Any Solider.
Cause marketing at its best.*
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*I’m not saying you shouldn’t buy Jingle Jugs. After all, not buying Jingle Jugs hurts at least five people: The person who makes the rubber and bikinis, the person who molds the rubber into breasts, the person who clothes the rubber breasts in bikinis, the person who drives the bikinied rubber breasts to the store, the person who sells the bikinied rubber breasts in their store. And I’m in no way saying this product or the buying of it is “bad” because that would be ”judging.” I’m not judging or wanting to harm the maker of rubber breasts or the soldiers they support or cause the owner of rubber breasts to feel less than happy with their purchase.
(HT:JP)
Seth Ward says:
Straw Man alert.
Argument= Believing in God is the same as believing in the tooth fairy.
Paul J. says:
Oh…my…goodness…
Shaun Groves says:
An imaginary conversation between me and Seth…
ME: Seth, do you believe in the tooth fairy? Just wondering.
SETH: Heck yes!
ME: Why?
SETH: How else did the money get under my pillow?
ME: You believe he/she’s real because you get money under your pillow?
SETH: Pretty much.
ME: Cool…Hey Seth?
SETH: WHAT??
Me: Do you believe in God?
SETH: Heck yes.
ME: Why?
SETH: Because I prayed the prayer of Jabez and right after that I got this rad car for half of what it’s worth and I got a raise at work and…
ME: You believe in God because you got more stuff and money?
SETH: Pretty much.
ME: So you believe in the tooth fairy for the same reasons you believe in God.
SETH: Uhh…
It’s not God and the tooth fairy, dancing breasts and $600 phones, that are “the same.” It’s the reasons that COULD be given for buying both that are potentially the same. This is why WHY matters more than WHAT…to me.
Luke says:
Touche! Looks like I’ll be returning that case of Jiggle Jugs I just ordered…
Cali Amy says:
It’s kind of funny you posted this, because I just watched Mrs. Henderson Presents last night. I actually liked that movie a lot more than I thought I would, it was an interesting story. I know this totally misses the point of whatever you’re saying, but I usually manage to do that.
Also, if anyone actually did want to do something nice for our troops who are deployed overseas, they might want to check out http://www.soldiersangels.org/
I don’t care what your political persuasions or views on war are, this is a program of love
Shaun Groves says:
“Jingle,” Luke. “Jingle.”
The jugs jingle more than they jiggle…I assume.
Seth Ward says:
Once again, what an interesting scarecrow this Seth fellow is.
Almost as accurate as comparing the boob jiggler to the iphone.
If your argument is filled with “coulds” and “potentially” then I guess you could say the same thing for about anything manufactured. – Toilet paper, shoes, guns, toy-fart-finger-pens, underwear, cars, bibles, teeth whitener, CCM cds… Crap! Everything is pretty much a needless, thoughtless, selfish, self-absorbed purchase.
So if we are talking hypothetical here, then you could be correct in your possible hypothetical assumption that someone might buy the iphone for the same reason they buy the boob-jiggler.
I pity the fool who does.
So I’ll go along that much, after I turn other cheek and moon you with the left side over the Jabez crack.
keith says:
So I send a former pastor an email this morning suggesting he publish his weekly devotionals on a blog. I put this blog in a list of “my favorites” as an example. I wonder what he’ll think when he clicks the link and this post is at the top. I may receive a call for counseling this evening. Of course, I put shlog in the list just under Al Mohler. Maybe that will increase my conservative point balance and make it look like I haven’t completely gone off the deep end.
Nancy Tyler says:
I wish another example had been used in this post.
Breast obsession is all over TV, in magazines, and dripping from the web. But here? Jugs, jiggling, jingling, whatever…junior high sex humor from a source that normally inspires me to think about “whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable…”
Know me even a little and you know that I’m not a prude or a feminist. It’s rumored that I even have a sense of humor.
I’m just tired of being reminded so often that a purposeful part of wives and mothers and sisters and daughters has been reinterpreted by the world as a built-in sight gag. And I’m disappointed because today, I was reminded here.
Bapster says:
Amen!, Nancy
Katie Larson says:
oh dear
Shaun Groves says:
Seth, you’re missing the point…I think. On the iPhone posts someone actually defended the purchase of the iPhone (and luxury cars, If memory serves me right) on the basis that NOT buying these things would harm those who profit from them. Sort of a “fight poverty by preventing by buying the stuff the middle class make…whether you need it, or, heck, want it or not.”
Maybe you did get that point but I don’t get your comment. Huh. Possible. Highly likely even.
Nancy, I know you well so your comment obviously stings more than if someone else had written it. I’m in no way saying this product is a good thing. I don’t think it’s funny either. .Quite the opposite. I think it’s juvenile. WHich helped make my point. It’s illogical to defend the purchase of a product only because that product puts food on the table of those who make it and sell it. When that argument is made, those making it obviously aren’t thinking of crap like this. They’d never make such an argument for this product would they?
Hope that helps. If not, I guess even two good people/friends are bound to disagree once in seven years.
Cissy says:
I completely agree with “This is why WHY matters more than WHAT”. This is what I try to teach my children every time we go to Wal-Mart/Target, etc. I was striking out in this teaching opportunity. So…..
We just sponsored Dysa, an adorable 7 year old little girl, last Friday night at your concert in Elon, NC. I tried to explain her situation to my children (5 yr. old twin girls and a 10 yr. old girl). The little ones were so overwhelmed that she did not have a Wal-Mart/Target, etc….that they immediately started asking 100 questions about what she plays with, what she eats, what does she do for fun…you name it and they asked it. Well, the question of a bike came up and I tried to explain that she probably did not have one, but that she plays with other things.
We went through a lot of questions and answeres and then they started asking to go to Wal-Mart right now. I became frustrated because I had just told them that there were people in other places in the world that do not have what we do and that we need to help them. One of the 5 yr. olds said, “we don’t want anything….we want to pick her out a bike and give it to her.” Well, my heart melted….but they do not understand why we cannot just go get her a bike or send her one of theirs. “Can’t we mail it or order it on the internet and get them to send it to her”…this conversation went on for for days and continues everytime someone new comes in….they both tell them that we have a new sister and she does not have a bike yet, but we may get here one.
Now when we go out shopping (at least for the last week)they ask about getting something for her and themselves, but I think they are learning. I am hoping that it lasts…I am thinking about taping her picture inside the car to help EVERYONE IN OUR FAMILY remember that there is a WHY to what we spend our money on and not just WHAT we buy.
Nancy Tyler says:
Aw Shaun, we’ve disagreed about a lot of things over the years. LOL And you’re one of my favorite ‘iron sharpens iron’ friends.
And I know you well enough to know that you’re not endorsing that thing. I knew you were using it to make a point and I got the point clearly. It’s just that, well, I logged onto the Shlog and I was smacked in the face with the photograph (which has since been deleted from your original post) of that pair of ‘Girls Gone Wild’ accessories there and the accompanying wording and follow up posts and I felt uncomfortable and disappointed.
Disappointed, I guess, because there are a hundred thousand other junky, insipid products that could have been used to make the same point.
And disappointed too because I know when an admired opinion leader opens the door to something, people who are influenced by that leader can be inclined to follow–and to take it down a notch.
I don’t use up all the fingers on one hand when I count the total number of men I know personally who cherish their wives the way you cherish Becky. I love the way you love your bride. That’s the thing to be modeled and copied. But pictures of disembodied chests and talk of jugs and jiggles, that gets copied more readily. It’s just easier and more fun to joke about that. And that can take the “cherish” out of the way women are looked at and valued.
I don’t know if I could even explain to a guy what it’s like to be a woman who’s been looked in the chest and not in the eyes and who’s been grabbed at in unwanted ways (and I’m NOT the Barbie doll-type, that’s for sure).
I’ve pretty much accepted in the general media with its images and its jokes that women are judged by the 36 inches give or take that precede them upon entering a room. I just…I just cringed though when a representation of those 36 inches was shown in a photograph, mounted and joked about on a Christian leader’s website.
Thanks for taking the picture down, for hearing me, and for working through the sting.
thecachinnator says:
I get what Nancy’s saying, but I can’t help but feel that it was a bit harsh. Part of the whole point was the ridiculousness of breast-obsession. I don’t think Shaun deserves the same rebuke that the buyers and sellers of such trash clearly deserve when part of his larger point is their foolishness and exploitative behavior. I actually thought his point was extremely well-made.
But since we’re harping on junior-high humor… did Seth actually just offer to moon Shaun over a crack?
Thomas says:
First of all, thank you for taking down that picture. When I first saw it at work, I was shocked by the image.
Second of all, doesn’t the company marketing this product realizes that this product would be counted offensive to the people who live in the Middle East.
Third of all, I will admit that I have been and probably will be in the future the jerk who Nancy is talking about. I spent way to much of my life judging women that way.
Last of all, Nancy, you were a blast to be around Saturday night after the concert. Any guy who judges you by that standard and writes you off needs to have his head checked.
Thomas
Nancy Tyler says:
Cach, thanks for the insight. I wasn’t feeling anger so it surprised me that I’d come across as sounding so harsh. I guess we all read and write things through different filters.
Shaun, please forgive me if I came across as
I) mean
or
L) judgmental
I’ll admit to or deny the rest of the choices on a letter-by-letter basis.
Thanks
thecachinnator says:
Now that’s some funny trackbacking, Nancy.
I actually wouldn’t mind a little anger there. I felt some. I just felt it directed towards the makers of that garbage, the fools that think giving them to soldiers is an act of altruism, and the people making money off this whole thing – not Shaun for pointing it out. Though trust me, lest anyone think I disagree with Nancy’s point about exploitation or dehumanizing of women via reducing them to a series of body parts, the point is a very valid one. And it’s a whole other topic.
I realize it was all part of a bigger point, and a good one, but I thought the point-in-a-point was well done. The whole business of this stinks, says I.
Seth Ward says:
Cach, yes, yes I did. Nothing like a good verbal mooning.
Shaun, no I got it. I was just throwing a little trash talk your way. I thought the post was pretty darn funny, as well as the fantasy conversation. Jabez… Although, you should quit fantasizing about me, immediately.
I hate to say it but… The boo# jig#ler thing is sort of funny, in a Ricky Bobby kind of way. It is a little on the edge of the ole’ perv cliff for me to pay a dollar let alone 50 for it.
Nancy Tyler says:
Trackbacking or backtracking, Cach?
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Either way, you said I was too harsh and that Shaun didn’t deserve “the same rebuke that the buyers and sellers of such trash clearly deserve.” I was not angry with Shaun but apologized for apparently coming across that way in the post.
Hope this is all clear now. Thanks.
Shaun Groves says:
Seth, I actually had a dream about you las night…probably because I read the comments on this blog before I went to bed. Bad move.
I was a cartoon drink cup with lid and straw. I was dancing on a movie screen at a drive through a la Greese. (It’s the word you know?) Becky was also a cup. Also dancing. ON a movie screen a la Greese.
There was a large pitcher of alcohol pouring its contents into me while I was trying to listen to Becky. SHe was really serious about something, frustrated that I was doing a better job listening. Thing is, it wasn’t my fault. Every drop that evil pitcher poured into me made me drunker and drunker. I was stumbling around, in cartoon cup form, trying to desperately to stop laughing and pay attention to my wife.
Then the “camera” zooms out and there’s a crowd of people watching this little movie I’m in. Seemed like I knew a lot of people there but yours was the only face I remembered when I woke up. The whole crowd – you included – were laughing at the movie not realizing I wasn’t trying to be funny. Very frustrating.
That’s the last time I read my blog before bedtime.
Wow.
I’m so glad to be a real boy again.
thecachinnator says:
Well… trackbacking since it was a trackback to another post… but the other post was posted after this post… so it’s kinda trackaheading…
And everything’s clear. I still agree with your basic point.
Seth, can you please change your online identity to “Jabez?”
Joe P. says:
great googly moogly, Shaun.
seems your link to my post about these obscene and surreal products brought confusion and some tragedy.
yes, sexism is bad. isn’t war profiteering like this even worse? well, sorry if trouble found your door because of that surreal scam.
still, i would bet cash money that the President and crew have at least one set of these in the White House, which they bring out from time to time when they need a laugh.
btw, i am a newbie to your blog, but fund it most enjoyable to read.
Joe P. says:
yeesh. “found it” not fund it. i can’t even fund my own blog.
Seth Ward says:
I wish I had that dream!
If I were Joseph…
The dream tells me that you should lay off the sauce or share it with your wife while watching cartoons and also, you and Becky should try out for next “The One that I Want” competition.
My face was in the crowd because I was the only one glowing from owning an iphone and or, I am strikingly handsome.
So, you are a frustrated liquor-hogging cartoon-addicted Danny in a CCMer’s body and you should pee before you go to bed. The end.
Or,
The blogging and Christian Rockstar world feels unreal like a cartoon where you sometimes feel trapped and sometimes people misunderstand you even when you are trying to be serious, all the while you are fearful of neglecting husband/father duties from being preoccupied with everything else that you feel enslaved by.
If that’s the case, I’d say you need a good vacation my friend.
Shaun Groves says:
I need a hug.
Grovesfan says:
Consider yourself hugged Shaun. And, woe to anyone who’s stupid enough to send one of these awful things to MY deployed husband! Just because he’s fighting for the right for people do be completely brain-dead, insensitive, foolish and idiotic, doesn’t mean that they have to ABUSE the right. BTW, before the next discussion gets started, I’m NOT saying that’s what he IS fighting for and neither does he. He is simply doing the job God called him to do. Fix airplanes and show people Jesus in the process.
Beth