Double-O Heaven

Another year has come and gone - which means that on New Year's Eve, there were lots and lots of people wearing those 2007-shaped novelty glasses.

Just a side note, but it's pretty ironic that with novelty items, the novelty wears off almost immediately - except for the ice cube with a fly in it - that's hilarious AND a thinker.

But somehow, these glasses beat the odds, too - they've been going strong for 7 years now! In fact, I took my 2006 pair to LensCrafters and got them fitted with prescription lenses.

Whoever thought them up is definitely raking in the money (probably with some kind of hilariously-designed, novelty rake). Yep, he's sitting pretty...for now. Because come 2011, he's out of double-O years and that glasses-making gravy train comes to a screaching hault!

As it is, he's probably working over time to revamp designs for 2010 ("Damnit, the eyes are just too far apart! Hmmm...maybe we can use the 1 as the nose bridge! To the molding plant!") But after that, he's screwed until 2020! What's he supposed to do? Trying to sell a line of glasses to companies with two consecutive Os in their name? (I'm looking at you Google! And you, too...uh...Cheez Doodles?)

That's no way to live! If he intends to keep living the high life in 2011, there's only one solution to his problem: novelty monocle.