Happy Flossing from Santa!

Hey, Santa doesn't want to have such bad breath that he'll scare away his reindeer!
Mrs. Claus appreciates it too.
Santa flosses and you should too!
Happy Holidays from everyone at the National Flossing Council!
And a very Happy New Year!

National Flossing Day Linocut

It's National Flossing Day!
To provide a reminder about flossing, here's an original linocut made at the Corcoran Gallery of Art for you to download and print.

If you hang it behind you in your bathroom when you're facing your mirror, it will speak to you and say "Floss."

 

(For PC users: right click, view image, click to enlarge to full size.)

If backwards doesn't work for you, here's another version

 Floss on!

National Flossing Day Proclamation

President Obama will "proclaim" Thanksgiving later this week.

In a similar way, National Flossing Day has been proclaimed for the day after Thanksgiving, Nov. 23.

Here's a copy.  You can also find it in printable form at www.flossing.org.

National Flossing Day Video!

To encourage all Earthlings to floss and celebrate National Flossing Day on Nov. 23, we've created a video that imagines the accidental discovery of dental floss on Mars by the Mars Curiosity Rover.

Click here to watch the video!

As you may have noticed, the video also speculates what flossing Martians might have looked like.

More about National Flossing Day soon!

A Monumental Flossing Reminder?

Perhaps you've seen or visited Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It's hard to miss the Kingdom Tower, which has been a major landmark in the city since 2002. 

The Kingdom Tower is owned by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a prince of the Saudi royal family. It is also the headquarters of his holding company: Kingdom Holding Company.

The traditional Adhan (azan), the call to prayer, is done from minarets throughout Muslim countries 5 times a day.

I wonder if it occurred to the Prince that his building might serve as a modern reminder to the people of the city that they should floss?

Let Inmates Floss!

You may have heard about the $500 million lawsuit filed by Santiago Gomez (shown), an inmate and future lawyer, in NY State. He is fighting for fellow inmate's inability to get floss. Right on, Senor Gomez!

How has it come to this?  Keeping people incarcerated is tough.  Of course it is!  I believe the US has the highest per capita rate of incarceration, so we should at least get good at it (and stop wasting so much jailing people).

Prisoners rights is an important issue, and here we have one tiny part of it - they can't get dental floss.

Let's hope this floss issue opens up a wider discussion of what prisoners are being offered to maintain their health. (If inmates can no longer make toothbrushs into shanks, we should be able to offer floss.)

The question also needs to be applied to the inmates of public and corporate contracted prisons.

Dental Floss Guitar Strings

With the support of a company that makes rings to hold floss (so you don't hunt your fingers wrapped in floss), Ewan Dobson figured out how to twist dental floss into usable guitar strings.
He plays them for 3min 16 sec and could probably play them even longer.

Here's the video link:
Ewan Dobson playing a dental floss guitar

Score another use for dental floss!