The husband was made aware that his toe was being talked
about on Adam Carolla’s podcast this week. I’m not sure how or why his toe came
up for discussion on Monday morning, but it had. I suppose the toe was being discussed
because it’s a freak of nature and Adam is friends with the husband, and Adam has seen the toe on random occasions (that alone is another story) and somehow it tied into some discussion on air.
To explain, the second toe located on the husband’s right
foot is crazy long. It looks like an index finger. It’s longer than his big toe
(which in itself is long) by about a 1/2”, as well as being very pale, a little
hairy and double wide. Not a pretty thing.
So what does a Dumb Ass Genius do when he hears his toe is
being discussed on a popular podcast? He tries to keep the toe momentum going
by doing something dumb for further self promotion.
The husband's idea was to photograph the toe daily while incorporating educational information for the
public about important historical events. ‘Toe-Day in History” was launched on
Twitter Wednesday, April 9, 2014. A photograph
was taken of the giant toe next to Prince Charles and Camilla
Parker Bowles' wedding photo (they were married 4/9/05).
Here’s how it got to be even more fun—the photo was taken on my
I-pad. The husband emailed the photo to himself and planned to attach it to
Twitter somehow (I don’t understand or use Twitter myself). The problem was the
photos weren’t being sent through to his email. They were somehow being held up by
Gmail. Was it that Gmail thought it was porn? the husband asked. Was it just
too weird? I thought.
Much panic, yelling and overall freaking out was had by the
husband that his Toe-Day launch was NOT going to go on as planned. Note: I had
changed my password on Wednesday morning because there was a news report about a
very harmful computer virus and everyone needed to change their passwords right
away! I changed my Facebook and Gmail passwords that morning. After more panic
the husband found all the toe emails in the unsent email folder and realized the I-pad’s Gmail
password hadn’t been changed. Yay! Problem solved.
Toe-Day in History was successful on Wednesday and Thursday. Note: Definition of successful is that the posts were made. Thursday’s photo was the
toe next to F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald since it was the day The Great Gatsby was published.
More fun was had when the college daughter called on
Thursday night very, very mad at the husband (who wasn’t home at that time).
“Where is he?? His toe is on my Twitter! He posted this on MY account!” she
wailed.
Turns out that Toe-Day in History was posted on the
daughter’s Twitter account, not the husband’s. Imagine how it was for a 19 year
old having to see her father’s scary toe big as day on her Twitter feed along
with all of her followers.
I'd say this was just another not good use of Genius.
