Terri Dann
The mental_floss road show
by Terri Dann - November 3, 2008 - 3:53 PM

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This weekend, the Birmingham crew spent two beautiful afternoons at Alabama’s Moss Rock Art Festival, spreading the mental_floss love. We met some hard core fans and answered the question “So what exactly is mental_floss?” more times than we can count. Between the holiday gift guide and our selection of t-shirts, none of our visitors walked away empty-handed.

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MF co-founder/president Will Pearson also completed a very important business transaction with the Frog Prince, the details of which will probably be revealed in a tell-all book in the near future.

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Thanks to everyone who came out and spent time with us! Now that we’ve perfected our pitches, we’ll be taking this show on the road – coming soon to a truck stop, flea market, or folk art festival near you.

When not working the flea market circuit, Terri Dann is a mental_floss designer.

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Comments (13)

  1. to my amazement, you guys are at moss rock and there is NO winslow to be found. was he competing? i ask that rhetorically as he works like a dog and never climbs any more.

    posted by cary on 11-3-2008 at 4:00 pm

  2. Very cool to you see you guys out there Sunday. However, I did have a hard time explaining to the girl I was with that I actually do work during the day and don’t just surf your website.

    posted by Justin on 11-3-2008 at 4:33 pm

  3. I want to know more about this. Were we the only magazine there? Were people buying t-shirts? Why is there a man in a frog suit? (And why couldn’t you get him to put on the ‘Natural Selection’ t-shirt?)

    posted by Jason English on 11-3-2008 at 4:59 pm

  4. All good questions! No, there were several other Birmingham-based magazines there, but we were the only one selling fun swag.

    Yes, we sold a bunch of tees. We had a poster of 20 tshirt options by the table, and had a lot of fun watching people point and read their favorites out loud to their companions. I had to explain what the Fibonacci sequence was about 15 times. We had to explain the Rhesus shirt twice.

    Will says we had more interest in the magazine and sold more shirts on Sunday than Saturday. This may be because Auburn and Alabama were both playing Saturday, and football is way more important than art around here.

    Shockingly, the gentleman in the frog suit was not the weirdest fan we had. Watching him do his frog suit dance was potentially the highlight of Saturday afternoon.

    Winslow will have to report from Sunday …

    posted by terri on 11-3-2008 at 5:18 pm

  5. i wish i knew y’all were going to be out and about at moss rock and i might’ve come by…

    Justin, i feel you. i have a hard time convincing most friends and family members i work b/c most stories start off, “i read something cool on mental floss today, (insert cool new knowledge)”

    posted by WarTiger on 11-3-2008 at 5:18 pm

  6. That’s great! Will you come all the way to New Zealand? :)

    posted by Dawn on 11-3-2008 at 5:18 pm

  7. Or would you consider Houston? (way more do-able than New Zealand!) :)

    posted by Pink Coat on 11-3-2008 at 5:44 pm

  8. I second the vote for Houston.

    recaptcha: mostly whore

    yowsah!

    posted by nikki on 11-3-2008 at 6:14 pm

  9. Well, since we’re voting today, my vote is for Omaha… :)

    Question: When do we find out the t-shirt winners for the economy crisis t-shirt slogan contest? It sounds like I made up the name of the contest, but you know the one though. I’m actually pretty excited about potentially purchasing a flossy t-shirt with the winner’s slogan.

    reCaptcha: 1776 [f]riends

    posted by Pam on 11-4-2008 at 10:37 am

  10. Pam — Today! Come on back in an hour or so.

    posted by Jason English on 11-4-2008 at 12:24 pm

  11. Come to Nashville!

    posted by Lindsay F on 11-4-2008 at 12:37 pm

  12. come to Austin

    posted by lindsey on 11-4-2008 at 1:08 pm

  13. Come to St Louis!

    posted by Orange on 11-4-2008 at 1:44 pm

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