Zip it

 

It is National Zipper Day and though the first thing I think of when I think of mimes (other than a desire to get away from them as quickly as possible) is a design I created a year or so ago:

I was quite proud of it, though I realize it is a bit extreme.  But in my experience, so is most people's distaste for mimes.  But National Zipper Day did inspire this one:

It is actually the only thing that inspired me because all that was left was National Peace Rose Day, National Shrimp Scampi Day and Stop Food Waste Day. Though I was tempted to create a design suggesting making Shrimp Scampi was a food waste in itself.  However, heating up anything with leftover shrimp in it in the employee lounge always makes me feel good.  But while writing this, I did come up with a compost bin idea and went for it.

It was this or an image of a compost bin looking a bit like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront with the caption, "I could have Bin, somebody." But no one under 60 would have got it. 

Guess which bin that idea went into?