"Good thinking Donald!" You say as you struggle in vain to release
yourself from the soap powder costume "maybe our luck is in today!"
Unfortunately it doesn't last. As you turn the next corner you are accosted
by a group of executives wearing placards bearing the slogan "Down with
VUD!"
"We represent Ordinary Products Incorporated" says the leader of
the mob, pinning you to the wall with a furled umbrella "and we're sick
and tired of our products being compared unfavorably against the leading brand
in television commercials!"
"It's thanks to people like you," says another man, whose identity
badge identifies him as the Head of Marketing "That sales of Ordinary (TM)
Washing Powder and Ordinary (TM) Shampoo have fallen by as much as seventy-five
percent in the last five years!"
"It's unfair competition!" yells the head of overseas sales shaking
her fist "We have children to feed as well, you know!"
"I don't have any children," says a junior sales administrator angrily,
"but I do have two goldfish and a budgerigar with expensive tastes!"
You try to explain that you are only using the costume as a disguise to help
you escape from the high-security wing of the Crazy Place, but the soft-soap
doesn't wash with the Chairman of the Board, and he challenges you to a duel.
In the spirit of the occasion he too has donned a soap-powder box costume, except
that his is plain white and has "ORDINARY POWDER" stencilled on the
front in large black letters.
"Let's find out once and for all which is the best powder!" he says,
with an evil grin. "choose your weapon!" The head of marketing steps
forward and proffers two seemingly identical umbrellas for you to chose from.
Will you take the one in his left hand, or the
one in his right hand?