With the launch of our corporate airship a mere 99 years away, we've decided to accelerate her maiden voyage by at least a month with a FUNdraiser for the ages. (This, you recall, is no ordinary pant blimp; it will be large enough to comfortably house a crew of 500 plus livestock.) For the next 99 hours, sale section selections and Pot-Docs are priced to fly off shelves as if they too were filled with helium. Or is it hydrogen? As stakeholders in this important project, we trust you'll let us know.

Cordarounds Airmen are staging awareness events worldwide this weekend to advertise a future filled with aerodynamic cords and optimistic airships. A list of notable efforts:

= Junior Zeppelineers are staging bake sales across the country.

= Orion, King of the Zebras, has promised species-wide horizontal restriping.

= The Federal Department of Slang has reauthorized the use of "groovy."

= The enchanting lovesmith Lazenby has agreed to sire 100 sons in the airship's honor.

= The head of Turkish prisons has ordered all inmates flogged with strips of horizontal corduroy.

= The League of Extraordinary Southern Gentlemen will boldly wear their seersucker pants in spite of autumn's frosty nip.

= The Corduroy Appreciation Club is holding 11/11 parties this Sunday in Brooklyn and Oakland.

What can you do to speed Zeppelin research and development this weekend? Simply put on or pick up pair of Cordarounds.  For each time you don a pair of our trousers, you're making a defiantly aerodynamic statement indeed.