Somehow Mr. Clean is called Mr. Proper here. Not sure if the "Mr. Proper" name is used only in Czech Republic or across EU, but Mr. Proper certainly looks like the same guy as Mr. Clean to me - well, except one thing. As you know, Mr. Clean has an earring on one ear and has his arms crossed in front of his chest like Genie. Mr. Proper has the earring and does the same with his arms, but he seems to have a tiny little pierce on the other ear... hmmm.
Anyway, I did a bit of research on Mr. Clean, as I was always interested in the concept of having a middle aged macho man on the household cleaner product.
It seems that he has been around since 1958! And, he even got a first name "Veritably" in 1962! Well, I have to say it is an odd name, but...
He always smiled, but at one point in 1960s, he was a "Mean Mr. Clean" who hates dirt. Here is the commercial of "Mean Mr. Clean."
We are planning a trip to Vienna this coming weekend, which is a long weekend due to the Easter holidays. And, one of the things that I have been wanting to do is to see an opera or something at Vienna State. I started to look for a way to buy tickets online, and found out I can do that at Culturall. You select a venue you are interested in, the month you are interested in, and you get a list of plays that you can choose from. The great thing about the site is that you can reserve the tickets by specifying the desirable seats on the seating map.
We got two tickets for the ballet show "Ein Sommernachtstraum" - the famous comedy by Shakespeare "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Parkett level. I can hardly wait!
I found these interesting looking milk bottles. It says "Farmer's Milk - fresh directly from the farm." Yummy!! Anyway, the bottle also says it is an "Eco Pet" presumably meaning an eco-friendly pet bottle. The small picture on the bottle seems to indicate that you can squash the bottle and make it into a small garbage.
I thought the bottle looked pretty interesting, but I am not sure about the eco-friendly part. Why not just use the paper container instead? Maybe there is a reason, which I have not yet explored. If you have any information on that, please let me know.
Eco friendly pet bottle is also big in Japan. Here is the CM from Coca Cola Japan:
