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Pink camo? Menothinkso.

Published Monday, August 14, 2006 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

I just watched a Back-to-School segment on one of the local TV news channels. Should I have confessed that? Probably not. But of the many things wrong with this segment (little kids who seem a little too familiar with model poses, among them), this stuck out. Apparently, sixth-grade girls should be going to school wearing pink camouflage. No matter what the age...pink camouflage? Is that an oxymoron? Whom are you hiding from in pink camo? And what are you hiding in -- a flock of pink flamingos? Might as well be a Flock of Seagulls, as far as I'm concerned. You're not conning me or the daughters I don't have into buying pink camo.