Clairvoyance, and at such an early age!
Sunday, September 18, 2005
My friend Tony seems to have had prophetic tendencies as a child.
He was quite the artist as a child and very much into the Japanese import/imitation-import cartoons that were on at the time. These included such classics as “Gobots,” “G-force” and “Voltron.” He decided to employ his artistic skills to create a comic book of his own. The star of this comic was, of course, a valient team who together piloted a robot who saved earth from robeasts that he vanquished with a mighty sword. In fact, it bore an uncanny resemblance to Voltron. Hmmmm.
Being a child obviously destined for the law profession, he made sure to change the name from Voltron to something a little less obvious in order to avoid a lawsuit. After much cogitation, he decided on name: VALTREX! The V, L and T were all that remained as evidence of its connection.
Years later, Tony happened upon a commercial on TV for Valtrex. Astounded, he watched as the commercial promised viewers a life free of genital herpes outbreaks.
So Tony’s poor robot hero had to share the limelight with its successor, the key to living a hassle-free herpes-ridden life! I suppose the only real similarity between the two is that both forms of Valtrex was there to save the day! Hurray for VALTREX!
Oh. my. goodness. That is such a funny story! What are the odds that, years after the fact, a company would steal thoughts from ones head just to turn it into a herpes-fighting machine?
Posted by on 09/20 at 04:41 AM