Johnny Cash passed away in late 2003 and less than six months later there was a story buzzing around the Internet about a marketing company that wanted to use his song “Ring of Fire” in a commercial for Preparation H. The Cash estate declined.
In the meantime, 180,000 high-tech bidets built by the Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto between May of 1996 and December of 2001 have developed problems with their electrical circuits. I can’t imagine combining water and electricity in the first place, much less in the bathroom, but in the past year 26 toilets have sent up smoke and three have actually caught on fire.
If the Cash Estate still isn’t interested in licensing “Ring of Fire”, perhaps the toilet company can persuade the remaining members of The Doors to let them use “Light My Fire.”
You can’t imagine combining water and electricity?
That story’s about smoke coming out of the washing machine. OK, sure, the machine was full of water, it’s powered by electricity, and there was smoke pouring out of it, but that’s not quite what I meant. That was a mechanical problem with a belt rubbing up against something it’s not normally in contact with. The mere idea of getting zapped in a place that’s best left unzapped would be sufficient to steer me away from that company’s products, and that would be before I ever heard of this particular problem.