Brown ribbon

[1][2] In Nazi Germany, the "Brown Ribbon" was an annual July horse race run in Munich from 1934 to 1944.

[4] Internet comedy blogger Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half has suggested her fans wear a brown ribbon to raise awareness of her blog, as well as to support 'terminally adult people all over the world'.

Public sanitation is, like personal security, national defense, and rule of law, one of the few valid reasons for politics to exist.

Lowly, semicomic diarrhea kills 2,866,000 people a year worldwide, 2,474,000 of them children under the age of five.

But no one is wearing a brown ribbon on his tuxedo lapel at the Academy Awards or marching up the Mall in Washington carrying a sign reading DIARRHEA -- IT CAN BE CONTAINED.