One time we worked out how many Chinese pigs perished in the making of all the cheap and nasty paint brushes sold that Easter (they use pig hair). Funnily enough, that one didn't make it into the newsletter.......
When I worked for a DIY retailer, every year we used to have to come up with daft facts for the company newsletter for their peak easter sales period - "this Easter we sold enough fence panels to stretch to the moon", "we sold enough paint to fill 100 Olympic-sized swimming pools" (why are they always Olympic-sized???) etc.
One time we worked out how many Chinese pigs perished in the making of all the cheap and nasty paint brushes sold that Easter (they use pig hair). Funnily enough, that one didn't make it into the newsletter.......
