my favorite band-aids include images of snoopy! this is somewhat carried over from childhood, more specifically a childhood full of blood tests and allergy shots.
however, my love of snoopy has only grown, and i can't really imagine a more suitable mascot for band-aids. something about what mr. schultz did that resonates with the whole child+ouch=band aid, etc.
shawn egg gave me some ninja band-aids a few years back...i tried to call them "bad-ainds", but it didn't catch on in spite of being very, very stupid.
lately, thanks to a small piece of glass hidden below my skin, i've been sporting a band-aid regularly (any clues to where the glass came to be in my body are welcome...i mean, i did black out a few times several years ago, but...)
this trend brought back memories of michelle trachtenberg's character nona on the adventures of pete & pete. nona always had a cast on her arm.
iggy pop also played her father on the show.
i can't really touch that part.
The Story of the Band-Aid:
Back in 1920, this newlywed was living in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with her husband Earle, and though married life agreed with her, housekeeping did not. Not that she didn't try. When Earle came home from his job as a cotton buyer at Johnson & Johnson, Josephine would always have dinner on the table. Unfortunately, she'd also have several cuts or burns on her fingers. Without an adhesive bandage, Josephine had no easy way of bandaging her own cuts. Earle had to cut pieces of adhesive tape and cotton gauze and make a bandage for each wound. This happened day after day-and, day after day Josephine needed more bandages. They were in a real bind.
Finally, after several weeks of kitchen accidents, Earle hit upon an idea. (Luckily for Johnson & Johnson, his idea was not to go out and hire a cook.) No, Earle sat down and prepared some ready-made bandages by placing squares of cotton gauze at intervals along an adhesive strip and covering them with crinoline. Now all Josephine had to do was cut off a length of the strip and wrap it over her cut. In a way, it was a mother who was responsible for the invention of the BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandage.
Earle soon told his boss at work about his new invention and soon the first adhesive bandages were being produced and sold under the world famous BAND-AID® trademark. Earle was eventually rewarded with a position as Vice President in the company, where he stayed until his retirement. As for Josephine, history does not record whether she ever mastered the art of accident-free cooking. But we do know she had plenty of BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages available just in case. Earle Dickson may not have realized what a cutting edge product he was inventing, but it certainly stuck around.
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