The day honors Inventor Stephen Perry’s receiving a patent for the rubber band on this date in 1845 (We’ve also seen it listed as March 17th but we can be sure, no one from ACME was there at the time.)
(The ACME Corporation is in no way endorsing this sort of behavior. But what these people do in the privacy of their own homes is their own constitutionally protected business.)
The U.S. Post Office is the largest consumer of rubber bands in the world – they order millions of pounds per year.
Here’s another reason to legalize marijuana, stay with me – think of the savings if USPS switched to hemp rope (and the number of very mellow postal employees – Please hold your e-mails, I know you can’t get high from smoking hemp.)
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 