From the WSJ Opinion Archives
Tony & Tacky
HAIL TO THE CHIEF: Chief Wiggles is the nom de plume of a deployed Utah National Guardsman blogging from Iraq (http://chiefwiggles.blog-city.com/). In one of his recent dispatches, the chief described the joy of a seven-year-old Iraqi girl to whom he'd given a stuffed animal. Now he's asking for more toys for our troops to deploy to these Iraqi tots (send them to Chief Wiggles, c/o CPA Chaplain, CPA-C2, Debriefer, APO AE 09335). The only guidelines have to do with common sense ("no guns" or "violent toys") and a nod to religious sensitivities ("no Barbie dolls or dolls scantily dressed"). Iraqi children, says the chief, have nothing and are delighted with even the simplest gifts of stuffed animals and paper to color on.
SIZING MEN UP: Stories poking fun at women reluctant to admit their real dress or shoe size never go out of fashion. Apparently size delusion cuts both ways, however. In a report on the bid by one prophylactic manufacturer to give its customers a wider variety of size choices, the St. Petersburg Times noted that the company's accompanying chart lists only "long" and "longer." According to a spokesman for They-Fit condoms, when their inventor came up with this concept he said: "You're going to have to remove the words 'small' and 'short' from your vocabulary."
