…or not.

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1. Q-tips were invented by Leo Gerstenzang in the 1920′s. He was inspired by seeing his wife stick a cottonball on the end of a toothpick to reach into various baby crannies.

2. He started the “Leo Gerstenzang Infant Novelty Company” to sell his new product…

3. …which he inexplicably labeled “Baby Gays.”

4. “Baby Gays” is a pretty funny name, but it’s even better when you make it big and bold with exclamation points.

Baby Gays!!

5. This will trick people into paying unwarranted attention to a completely inconsequential blog post.

6. Eventually Gerstenzang changed the name to “Q-tip Baby Gays.”

7. The Q stands for quality, which is a pretty boring explanation, if you ask me.

8. He later dropped the “Baby Gays.”

9. This is not a very nice way to treat babies, whether they’re gay or not.

Now, one question:

Can you think of any other product that says on the packaging to not use it in the way that most everybody will?

It’s like telling me not to use my lawnmower as a window fan. Please.

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Seems to me that over the course of his life, he ended up having some worries after all.

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The story of the 1957 obscenity trial surrounding Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl”…

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