Online - June 23, 2006

Spread ’Em

Butter Boy

You? A dreamer and a doer. Give you a small compact, a transistor radio, and a couple of bobby pins, and you’ll take down an entire crooked corporation or small rogue nation.

So why is it, oh MacGyver-like one, that you can’t figure out how to butter your corn without looking foolish? (The heel-of-bread-as-buttering-implement approach reflects poorly on your upbringing.)

Butter Boy to the rescue. Just insert half a stick of butter into the bottom of the plastic holder, take off the cap, and get to work. It glides onto the cob — no fingers, knife, or mess. And when you’re done, the little green superhero lives in the fridge until you need him again to spread the butter on your corn.

Which leads us to your next assignment: devising a way to keep it from heading straight to your hips.

Available online at plumparty.com.