by Justin A. Guy I submit to you, the public, the following proposition: Let's do away with under-arm deodorant.   Here is how I see it: You wear deodorant (antiperspirant... whatever), I wear deodorant but how many times have you stepped onto a bus, or gotten stuck next to someone in a theatre who simply had no idea how badly they outwardly stank. Sure you can change seats, wait for another bus or breathe through your mouth but what kind of solution is that? Why should you have to be oppressed by this smelly human who clearly has no regard for you?   The answer is you shouldn't be. Now before you angerly take up arms against the next person who olfactorily offends you; hear my proposed solution to this societal upset: A complete and total abandonment of any under-arm deodorant by everyone.   Now don't bother pointing out the glaring fact that this would probably cause nation wide outbreaks of nearly lethal B.O. because the abolishment of under-arm deodorant is only half the solution. You see in place of this technique for self deodorising, we implement a self-defensive deodorising measure. I propose something along the lines of the upper-lip-deodorant-stick!   Think about it now, when you leave your home do you leave the doors open hoping that nobody out there would ever do something terrible like rob you? Hell no! You lock up those doors because there are people out there who will rob you. Same goes for personal hygiene; you've got to be defensive about it and not leave the house assuming that the world is going to smell as good as you.   There would be only benefits to a deodorising application to the upper lip. Not only would such an invisible layer of odour fighting goodness ward off B.O. but also other rank human emissions like bad breath and what I politly like to call halitosis of the anus.   So there you have it. It's a solution to all those nauseating situations. Once started it would inevitably become universal as no one in their right mind would want to be unprotected if everybody else were to abandon their deodorant. And if they for some reason did not want to use the upper-lip-deodorant-stick then that would be their prerogative and their decision would not infringe upon anyone else's senses.