YSaC, Vol. 764: I see London, I see France …
2010 August 20
Sew my kids undies
Hi there, I am looking for someone who can sew my 2 year old and 4 year old about 20 pairs of undies. I will go and get the fabrics and everything else you need and pay you for the time. I want to do this ASAP. Please respond with pricing
Is a lack of underwear at retail stores some kind of a national crisis with which I am unfamiliar? Should I be hoarding skivvies in case of the knickerpocalypse? Will panty raids actually become purposeful to redistribute briefs from the haves to the have-nots?
It’s the wrong part of the country for magical protective underwear, so unless there’s a britches shortage I’m at a loss.
Thanks, Yasmin!
No coffee yet, so I read this as “See My Kids Undies”…
Immediate, severe, gag reflex.
I’ll be back after I recover.
No one wants to see your kid undies, Grampdaddy! Really, I had no idea they made Underoos in your size.
I got the special “Captain TacoMontanaMagic” ones – they’re special!
I just got a horrible image of Gramps strutting around wearing underwear fearing my grinning face over his crotch.
*Goes to get his brain bleach bong*
AGH! IT BURNS!!!! MY EYES!!!! AGH!
I OFFICIALLY DECLARE AUGUST 20TH A NATIONAL BRAIN BLEACH HOLIDAY!!!!!!!
As though that’s somehow worse than the Taco thong.
Ewww…it just got worse…
Brain bleach and alcoholiday!*
*for those of legal age
*Slips on the Taco Thong*
Hey Gramps, can you Cancan?
(I just got a horrible image of Gramps strutting around wearing underwear fearing my grinning face over his crotch.)
TM – just noticed the (I hope) typo: Hell yes!, I fear your grinning face over my crotch.
You prepared to share that brain-bleach??
I am not making this up. Target sells adult sized underoos style men’s undies. I saw The Flash and Batman style tighties last time I was there.
I think we have an answer to why so many men are still single.
One of my friends told me his boyfriend has cartoon undies – not all of the guys who wear them are single.
My brother-in-law has 4 pairs of Spongebob boxers, and 3 pairs of Transformer Boxers.
If they made Mega Man or Metroid boxers I’d buy and wear them.
*checks internet*
Damn.
Paging SaraJean, we need your Google-Fu on aisle Taco.
I found video game themed boxers.
http://www.webundies.com/video_games.htm
And these rather boring ones from CafePress.
http://www.cafepress.com/+megaman+boxers
There may be others, but they exist on sites my work computer doesn’t like.
Welp, Taco just had a geekgasm.
Another thing to beg TacoMa’am to make me. Along with the katamari, umbreon, and Bob-omb.
We’ve already made a few mushrooms.
I’ll have to wait until I’m at a more open computer before I can take a look at those. But thanks, SJ. I knew if anyone could find me geeky undies it would be you.
Why do I luv you Taco? Because you’re smart-assy and smart and like shit like this. Mrs. Taco has a keeper!
:squee!:
There’s a pattern to make your own minions!
Oh, and I also found this in case you need Halloween costume ideas for
yourselfTron.@sarajean80 — I want one of the minions!!
Taco, knowing that you have likely seen every bonus Samus in her undies screen, Metroid undies on you just might cross a line (if any lines still exist).
SJ, that costume is awesomesauce!
My wife would love to buy me those. She says tightie-whities remind her of Homer, and she would love to buy me Batman, Superman, and Spiderman undies.
I wouldn’t mind Megan Fox
inon my boxers.Now I’m totally making
myselfTron that Mega Man costume forevery day useHalloween!Christina: Guilty as charged.
That minion is simply adorable. I would love to have a small army of them infesting my cube at work!
The MegaMan costume is great but I did get a twich when the poster wrote “allude” instead of “elude”.
*twitch*twitch*
Dammit.
I think I need to learn crochet now.
It’s pretty easy I’ll show you right now!
*Poke, poke, loop, pull, loop, pull, pull, poke, poke, loop, pull, loop, pull, pull*
There you go, just like that!
Don’t mind him, he’s a smartass.
It’s pretty easy, you just have to do the same thing over and over and over again.
Kinda like work, but with pretty yarn.
There’s tons of sites that will show you how, there are even videos on youTube if you need to actually watch someone do it.
SJ’s correct (about all her points). It’s rather easy to learn, but a bit more challenging to perfect. It’s also rather inexpensive. For 1 hook and a ball of yarn you’re dropping maybe $5.
The one big tip I have is not to pull everything tight. Anything I crochet ends up being about half the size I want it to be because I can’t seem to teach myself not to pull everything tight. It’s like I’m expecting to hold back a sail boom or something.
Actually, the big problem is that I am sincerely trying NOT to load up my house with more crafting stuff. I have tools and supplies for cross stitch, quilling, whittling, glass painting, mead making, miniature painting (acrylics), and seed bead stuff. And miscellany. Can’t forget the miscellany.
But I may not be able to resist…
Seeing you mention miniature painting brings a tear of joy to my eye.
The miniatures made me think of my childhood. I was playing Dungeons and Dragons (with pewter characters and beasties, and the occasional scenery element) since I was big enough to see the top of the table. My dad has a gigantic walk-in closet (or smallish storage room) designed specifically for the purpose of being filled with figures he’s painted, scenery he’s built, and books. We also went to tabletop gaming conventions a couple times a year.
Looking back, I had an awesome childhood.
Gramps…tell me about it.
Not to mention…why does this have to happen ASAP?
Did the last stranger that sewed your children’s undies not do a good job?
If only Michael was still alive…
p.s. This offers the chance for a new charity!
• Stranger Sewn Undergarments For Tots
BAHAHAHAHA
Candorman — please, we really do NOT want Gramps to tell us about it.
The less we know about his Spider-Man Underoos, the better off we will all be.
He’s got Spiderman? All I find are the stupid Hulk ones.
I’ve got SpongeBob on today ♥
I have Simpsons underwear. It says, “I choo-choo-choose you.”
Gramps, the statement that no one wants to see your childrens’ undies is clearly false.
MandaB is your child, is she not?
And Manda, you have a husband, do you not?
Therefore, most likely, MandaB’s husband doesn’t mind seeing the underwear of one of your children, Grampdaddy.
I think. It might be too early in the morning for logic.
Astro, you may have made Grampdaddy cry.
You are correct. I am married. That’s where the flaw in the logic comes in. Everyone knows once you get married there’s no interest in the knickers of the other half! I think it’s part of the vows. 😉
Very true. My only interest in my wife’s panties is either making sure they don’t end up stuck to my work clothing, or making sure they’re not on my wife.
Oh look, the line.
This is OT but vaguely related and funny, so I’ll share.
I was in the kitchen one day and Mom brought in the mail. There was the usual assortment of junk mail and she was sorting it on the counter when she started to laugh.I look over and see;
With my name on it – a pet supply catalog, the cover featuring dog collars quite prominently (I’m on some kind of list, I get animal-related catalogs all the time.)
With my Dad’s very obviously male name on it – a Hanes Her Way Plus Size underwear catalog
With my Mom’s very obviously female name on it – a catalog featuring power tools.
She says something to the effect of “What must the mailman think?” which started me laughing as well.
Stupid useless edit feature. The window popped up when I tried to fix that but the text box was blank. Has that happened to anyone else?
Sarajean: sometimes if you wait a while, the text will come up.
It popped up the first time with text and I corrected it, but it would not save. I refreshed and got it to come up again, but the box was blank. It remained blanck until the three-odd minutes elapsed, and then when the time ran out it closed itself.
Taco, my husband is the same way. He also says that lingerie looks best on the floor 😉
*waves at the line*
TacoMa’am: What kind of lingerie do you like the most?
Me: The invisible kind.
Manda, don’t tell your mother that – she’ll laugh you right out of the house. Was it that long ago that you girls were on the other side of our bedroom wall?
Thank you, Astro – I don’t want to talk about my daughter’s underwear either…
There’s one the whole family can agree on!
MrB would like to vehemently deny that he has any interest in my knickers.
The money in my undies does not go to an interest-bearing account so therefore…
Nevermind.
Mr. Eyebrows did a load of laundry the other day and hung them out on the clothesline to dry. When I walked by on the way to the barn, I noticed that he had hung up all the clothes with my undies directly in the center, protected on all sides. Oh that man…just gotta love him!
Storytime:
The dog I had before my current dog was a lab who was a garbage bin- if it fit in her mouth, she’d eat it. She had a strange thing for socks, gloves and underwear. The neighbors at the time dried their clothes on a line. One day, we see her running down the street, homeward bound, with a bra in her mouth.
It was very awkward to return it and to try to explain that the dog took it.
My Mom is of the same “hide the underbits” camp, which I think is a bit odd given that we hang our clothes on the back porch, a location that is thirty feet off the ground and completely shielded from our neighbors by dense trees. It’s not like the deer or that stray cat we call Stumpy that sometimes sleeps on the railing cares. Well, Stumpy might.
After re-reading my comment above, I want to state for the record: I am a grammy…my undies are not.
For some reason, I feel so much better having cleared that up. Thank you very much.
Disturbing Rating: 7/10
Why?
The title says it all…”I need a stranger to sew up some undergarments for my children…” For the love of God lady…why don’t you just send pictures to the peders? Do you pay extra if the perv doing the sewing doesn’t smell them before selling them to you?
I’m dumbfounded.
I don’t understand why you would need underwear for baby goats, but to each their own I suppose…
Thats what I was going to ask Manda.
Since I assume that Underoos are strictly for kids named Joey.
Underoos
Joey
Hee hee hee…I love a little marsupial humor.
Semper sew sub ubi.
Taco, I never knew you spoke Latin!
I whip it out from time to time.
And do you say, “S’cuse me while I whip this out” ? (crowd gasps)
Actually, yes.
They call me Bart in some parts of Wisconsin.
I kinda hope there is an underwear shortage, just so I can use the term “knickerpocalypse”.
“Knickerlypse”…something about that just sounds wrong Sara.
Double entendre anyone?
That’s a bad Sara!
= p
Maybe our Sparky is just really, really opposed to sweatshop-produced garments?
ISAAC! YOU’RE BACK!
**starts to glomp, then merely settles for allowign rthim to correct some of my spelling mistakes.**
Yay, Isaac’s back! Just in time too, I leave for Paris tomorrow and will not be around to do the Taco edits for a week.
Oh sure, spin a positive thread on this. 🙂
Yay
IssacIsaacIzzy is back!(Yay, Isaac’s back! :waves🙂
So Sparkles would rather set up her own sweatshop?
*waves to Isaac – Yay!, Isaac is back!*
Mr. Winkey must have told him we were talking about him yesterday.
Hey Isaac!
**winks at Mudsy**
**winks at Isaac**
No, I didn’t tell.
**teehee**
::shudder::
AAAAhhhh! I need new underpants.
Isaac, many have tried to fill your shoes while you were on sabbatical and have done so admirably. However, it is good to see your fringed-domed avatar once again! *waves a big California howdy*
I know it’s already been said, but I’ll add my own:
Yay, Isaac’s back!
^This, but with random punk-shoo-ashun and uh-chro-shush spelling to get you warmed up 😉
Isaac! Good to see you! 8) *wink*
I’m going to learn an instrument and start a band strictly for the chance to call it Knickerpocalypse. This is so many kinds of win. Or, maybe I’m just especially relieved it’s Friday and need more caffeine. But if the Llama-Nun, bees be upon her, has uttered it, then It Is Good.
Amen, and may the bees be upon her, always.
Yea, verily, and they did feast on the stoats and the crustaceans.
And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chu..
Skip a bit, Brother.
OK, just wanted to evoke a memory, not make everyone sit through the scene.
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth over doing.
And remember that failure is always an option.
Lola- Your first album should have all songs that are under two minutes, and you could call the album “Briefs”.
I’m with you SJ…and I think I’ll just use it randomly.
As for the ad and all that it implies….nuh-uh…I’m a Mommy and a Grammy and I cannot snark on the possibilities…..
Bowing out my fellow snarkleites….have a great weekend!
I’m sorry, but “knickerpocalypse” sounds like what my son did to his underwear when he was supposed to be napping the other day. I considered calling for a HazMat crew. I’ll spare you the details.
So it was beyond a “poosplosion”?
Oh.My.Yes. Much worse.
He’s three. He met me at his bedroom door, undies in hand and said “Don’t worry mom! I’ve got it here.”
No. No he didn’t “have it”. Not by a long shot. I’m remarkably tolerant of the truly disgusting things kids do, but this was almost too much for me. Many joys and surprises await you as Tron grows up. I wish you luck.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
*Takes a breath*
oooooooooooooooooooooooooo…
Invest in a good rug cleaner with stain remover… and lots of clorox wipes and paper towels. It doesn’t stop at 3.
I could have my dad order some carpet spot treatment like he did for me (he owns a carpet cleaning business).
Gotta share, when son Alain was 6, he apparently didn’t get out of his underwear in time to prevent staining them, so he decided to flush them. The toilet overflowed, and did he call for Dad? Oh no. Mommy! My underwear accidentally fell in the toilet and got flushed, and now it’s flooded in the bathroom. Poor kid was so scared, he burst into tears, but I was laughing so hard at the fact he thought it made sense the undies fell off of him through his jammies! Good times, good times.
And a flame thrower. And a respirator. And goggles. And rubber gloves that will reach to your shoulders, if not a full blown hazmat suit.
You can borrow my new respirator, it’s a full-face model so you don’t have to wear goggles. I just put brand new organic-vapors cartridges on it, too.
Actually, you might just leave out the pants reference altogether, and just call that kind of situation “Kinderpocalypse.”
I was drinking teawhile reading today’s post… when I got to “knickerpocalypse”, tea met screen.
I also want and excuse to use that word again.
*AN excuse
Is your space bar sticking or is that a new drink? I’m hoping it’s the latter.
*tries to think of a clever tea joke*
*can’t*
Sticky space bar and lack of proof-reading before hitting “submit comment”
Repeated showering of keyboard wtih tea, lemonade, etc. will cause keys to stick. Says here.
Maybe they have to have the days of the week embroidered on them. Maybe there’s a decent, logical explanation for this insanity. Maybe I should pack for my trip to the Bahamas that I can’t afford.
Windrose, if I fold myself up real tiny-like, may I please to be stowing away in your suitcase?
I’m sure you can fit if she doesn’t pack any underbits. She can get someone to make her some when she gets there.
They have CraigsList in the Bahamas, right?
Alas, I can’t even afford the trip to NC Bahama, so the packing is just as silly as my other suggestions about a redeeming value to the ad. 8/ But If I had two dead rats, Manda, I’d give you one!
*Has an undead rat*
No, really, the rat in my icon is a vampire rat, from my comic. The reason he has the unblubler is to protect himself from the sun.
The drawing is by a friend, who cutesy-fies everything. My own rendition of the vampy rat is much more ratty.
I used unblubler in conversation yesterday.
My friend looked at me like I had just sprouted a third head.
My friend looked at me like I had just sprouted a third head.
So you already have 2?
Just for clarification, this is the island Bahamas and not the miniscule town in NC named Bahama*, right?
*That would be pronounced “baa-HAY-mah”, of course.
Everyone on Facebook, go find HHNF and send her Birthday Greetin’s as she is now a quarter of a century olden!
Which one is she? Searching “hellhathnofury” turns up two people that use a profile picture similar to her gravatar.
Is she:
HellHath NoFury
or
HellhathNofury Fury
?
#1
Roll of cotton fabric: $25.
5 spools of thread: $7
Cost of services: $75
Accidentally sewing the pee flap on the side of all 40 pairs of knickers: Priceless.
There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s Wal-Mart.
Side. Front. Makes no difference.
I suppose you picky male types are particular about that though…
Well, some small few of us can make it work regardless… but we shouldn’t have to!
I doubt the “small” few can make it work…
Is this a line I see before me?
Would you rather I had said a “handful?”
At least you didn’t say a mouthful…
*gets out binoculars to see rapidly-retreating line*
At this point, I don’t think we’re crossing it, I think it’s running away.
*doles out fig leaves*
*borrows binoculars from Lola to see “handful” *
I wonder if we should send this ad to the Sparkle behind the Weavables?
[possible corey/matt] Having actually sewn items that required elastic, I can tell you that it is a fidgety, annoying, agravating product to work with. Making twenty of anything the size of a two or four year old’s underwear with elastic would probably reduce me to a twitching wreck and I would certainly charge a lot more than you would spend at Wal-Mart for the same quantity.[/corey/matt]
That was my thought. This person probably thinks they’ll save money by having a person do it, but in my experience hand made clothing is always way more expensive than mass produced machine-made stuff.
And for underwear… seriously, just buy them at the store. Let the clothing makers continue to make more worthwhile stuff like suits, dresses, and giant squirrel costumes.
Is there really all that much machine-made clothing? I thought that most of the cheapie stuff at Walmart (or anywhere) was cheap because it was made by someone getting paid a nickel a day in a “developing” nation.
That’s probably more likely.
I guess as an Engineer I rather HOPE that we’re using machines rather than child labor. I’m an optimist that way.
I think the children operate the machines, so it’s still machine-made.
Edit: [corey][/corey]
Bridgete beat me to the corey. . I’m not sure where underwear are primarily made, but socks, by and large, come from Honduras. I have no idea why I know this.
Hello, all. I just got a nice email from Windrose asking me to drop in and tell you that I did not die during my summer vacation. And indeed, I did survive it.
Also, I am not Mr. Winky. I strenuously deny these rumors.
I can’t promise to be really active in the snarkery—I’m having internet issues these days. (That is, I am having issues with the internet these days. It comes to my house just fine, but it’s been usurping too much of my time, and I need to get a little more control over it.) But I will check in once and a while and pitch in a couple of pennies’ worth of gobbledygook.
Yaaaay! Hi, Isaac! I understand the need to not be online all of the time, so whenever you are able to grace us with your monkish presence is appreciated.
I actually thought that perhas you had not died, but instead were suffering from a surfeit of that beer that tastes like cake, or at least that was what I’d wished. I found some a while ago that tastes of banana bread and was thinking of you.
I think I’ve had that banana-bread beer! Funny squat little bottle? I remember liking it.
I missed you guys. It’s good to be back.
This is actually one of the bigger (20 oz, perhaps) bottles, at least in the variety available. I’m seriously considering trying a black and tan with it and one of the varieties of chocolate stout. I think it will either be really great, or meh – no middle ground.
Here’s a link: http://thebrewclub.com/2010/04/19/wells-banana-bread-beer/
In looking for that, I learned it has a FB fan page.
My mind! It is blown!
Yes—that’s the stuff. I had just misremembered the bottle. I liked it. Maybe I should buy more.
While my drink of choice is a manhattan or a martini, I have recently found a beer that is just delicious…Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat. Nice, light, refreshing…especially on a hot summer day. And over the summer, Mr. Eyebrows became a fan of their Imperial White.
Welcome back Isaac! It’s good to see you again … just in time for the AY to start again, eh?
Welcome back! How was (overseas)?
“Will panty raids actually become purposeful to redistribute briefs from the haves to the have-nots?”
Looks like Robinhood will have to become Robinpants.
1. Steal underpants from the rich.
2. ???
3. Profit.
Similarly:
1. Sew underpants for the children.
2. ???
3. Asshat.
This of course begs the question:
Must an asshat wear underwear on their head?
You’ve got a problem of pronoun agreement there, Taco. One asshat is singular. “His or her” is preferable, and will let you avoid writing “their head,” which denotes plural ownership of a single body part.
Also, that’s not what “begs the question” means. You want something like “raises the question.”
Sorry for that, everyone. I just had to make sure that Taco knew that it was really me!
Or, I mean that it was really I. Damn, that sounds stupid, though.
I’ve always used “begs the question” incorrectly. So there!
*Nya*
As an Aside: Wow, always assumed ‘begging the question’ meant “Begs that this question be asked” rather than the logical fallacy. The things you learn from comments board.
As for the pronoun disagreement. Is there a neuter term to use in this situation? I’ve always dodged assuming gender by using “their” as a catch all neuter; using his/her as a catch both just seems overly pedantic.
Yivo has proclaimed that instead of he or she we are to use the word shkle. And instead of him or her we are to use the word shklim or shkler.
I have now added the word gerfkle as a neuter term for pronoun ownership. Thus:
Must an asshat wear underwear on gerfkle head?
This Yivo, who is shekel to suggest we use shecklim or shekler?
**Ah, what an E can do!**
Thank you, Isaac, for the “begs the question” correction. It drives me up a wall that almost no one uses the term correctly.
Taco et al. – I’ve seen “xe” used as a gender-neutral third-person-singular, with xeir as the possessive, but it’s not particularly common.
The forums on chronicle.com (the website for the Chronicle of Higher Education) use “hu” as a gender-neutral pronoun (as in “hu turned hu’s paper in late”), but that drives me insane.
“One” is gender neutral, i.e., “wears underwear on one’s head,” but it sounds a bit stuffy.
Oh! I forgot about the power of “one”!
What?
Knickerpocalypse’s first song will be “Robinpants and his Commando Men.”
Edited that twice to be kicked off with a 400 Error.
Again.
About the measure of my Friday.
… Anyone else getting advertisments asking you to invest in solar energy?
No, but I’m getting an ad for strange briefs that go up to one’s belly button.
I see that one with some regularity. I think it’s a default one when Google ads is stymied by our word selection in the ad and comments; this is as it should be in this case, because if we were getting ads for children’s underpants, that would be disturbing. Of course, I may be wrong, and they will show up eventually. And be disturbing.
It also seems to take about 24 hours for Google to figure out what the page is really about.
As if any of these pages can really be “about” something… I haven’t been paying attention to ads on previous pages, but I bet they’re frightening! Even just looking at that summary that Windrose did last week or so was a scary look into the collective minds of the commenters…
Or not – I believe I have just seen the “Papi thong” to which Astro may have been referring.
I don’t think I’ve seen that brand before. In my neighborhood, ‘papi’ is a semi-generic Spanish-language greeting, like “bro,” “man,” or “dude” would be in others. (Conversely, I get referred to as ‘mami’ on occasion.) Is this marketed to a Spanish-speaking demographic?
Next to it, they had something else that looked very like a sock, for one’s foot, but which was also called a thong, from some other brand. I did not want to click for the larger picture (in case it really wasn’t a sock).
In Google’s defense, some days I come here and have no idea what the page is about either. Then I start commenting and don’t care as I help the page drift away from any discernible topic.
Topics are for the weak :-p
I kinda want to Google “Papi thong” now, but I am afraid to do so.
Agh! I just got the papi thong/socks ad. Frightening thing. But at least the model has nice abs… yum yum :-p
Now I’m getting ads asking me to go “Find my Bella” on IMVU.
**shudders at the thought**
I googled Pap thong. Oh, dear. And one of the results was “motion thong” and another said “papi thong 3-pack”.
Is “motion thong” what happens when Taco is wearing the Tacothong and has a Tacosplode?
… Wait, maybe I don’t want to know the answer to that.
EB: T-shirt! I want a t-shirt that says YSaC; Topics are For the Weak. Elebenty ad doors!
[spanglish corey] In my neck of the woods, “papi” = “daddy” in both the sense of child to pater familias and in the sense of “who’s your daddy” (quien su papi).
In the same vein “mami” = “mommie”–and equally from sublime to icky (sea mi mami).
But, the construction “papi thong” is just so wrong on so many levels.
Even allowing for the old, and odd, usage of “thong” to mean “flip flop”or “roman sandal” (Oi, mis ojos, el calcetines negros)
[/corey]
Odd, the sun doesn’t shine…
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas,
A gigantic nuclear furnace,
Where hydrogen is built into helium,
At a temperature of millions of degrees!
Sorry, I listen to way too much TMBG.
I thought that was BET.
Nope, TMBG. They recorded it in 1987.
But to be fair it is a remake of the song written by Hy Zaret And Lou Singer in 1959.
Granted a LOT of people have remade this song, so BET probably did a remake as well. For my money I like the TMBG remake more than any of the other’s I’ve heard. But I’m biased.
I miss Crash Test Dummies.
[/corey]
Sorry, my post was leaking all over the comments section.
Constantinople has been in my head the whole evening, having read that about 1820. This, despite watching Eureka and Pillars of the Earth. TMBG are good that way.
I’ve been spending too much time with my “crafty” friends, because I read this and immediately knew that what Sparkette wanted was not your regular, Walmart Underoos, but instead reusable training pants. Which are a pain to find in stores. Dammit, I think I need to wander off and get a slice or two of coffee. And maybe do something productive to make up for this borderline /corey moment.
*Slowly drifts back out*
I suspected as much myself. My wife made some of these as well as a bunch of cloth diapers and cloth diaper covers for Tron a while back while she was still “teh preg!”.
That does kinda make sense, but she should have specified “training pants” and not “undies”.
Crafty, reuseable training pants you say? One moment, please.
*Whips out Weavables bed, covers with sorrond wrap and duct tapes sides together to create a top and leg holes.*
TA-DAH!!! No fabric or sewing required!
Between the sorrond wrap, the duct tape, and what is surely 99-cent-a-skein acrylic yarn, I am visualizing a truly nasty case of diaper rash. Sounds like a guarantee that your kid will be potty trained in a week, flat.
So what’s stopping someone from just buying underwear from Wallyworld and just putting another tag in there ala what’s her hat from a while ago, and claiming you made them? You could charge Sparkette here pretty much anything, as she sounds pretty desperate.
Basic ethics and human decency?
Oh, wait … this is CraigsList.
I think my snark is tired out by the long, early week at work. I hope to return, re-snarked, on Sun.
We’ll look forward to your rested, piping-fresh snark, AR.
[Corey/Matt…] OK… So… I really hesitated doing this, because I don’t want to bring down the snark. Nor do I want to seem to be speaking out against our illustrious Llama-nun.* And the butterflies in my stomach are jumping around, but that probably has something to do with social anxiety disorder and not wanting to stand out from/say unpopular things to the crowd (among other things :-p).
I’m LDS (aka Mormon) and come across this misconception a lot… It’s not really “magical protective underwear.” Yeah, there are stories about people who got in car accidents/house fires/bullet crossfire who say they came out untouched by the flames or bullets or whatever in the area they were covered. But I would be surprised if even one of them is true. They’re stories–something that people in the church like to hear because human nature means people generally like hearing stuff like that. The reason why LDS adults who have reached a certain age/stage in life wear “special underwear” (garments) is because it is “an outward expression of inward commitment.” It’s something we have every day to remind us of specific commitments we made to the Lord. The protection that it offers is mainly mental and spiritual. I know that Llama-nun (and others that use the phrase) would not intentionally be insulting to belittling, and usually things like this are a lack of knowledge rather than anything else. And “special underwear” isn’t something that bugs me because, in a nutshell, that’s kinda what it is… I think it’s mostly the “magical” part.
I know that on YSaC we snark about all kinds of things. And sometimes what one person thinks is free game, another person thinks is a sensitive subject. I feel among friends here, which is the only reason why I feel even remotely comfortable saying any of this. If we were a group of my friends from high school or something, I probably would say something similar… if not so long winded :-p And if something snarkworthy comes up about Utah or LDS culture (10 million kids, 15-passenger vans at the grocery store, funny-looking poofy hair, 5 years of food storage in the basement, lack of alcohol/coffee making for a cranky state… I could go on :-p) then I’m right there with you :-p I hope this came across mostly as correcting a common misconception than being all indignant and such, but I guess it was a little long-winded for that. Sorry for taking up your time… and Snark On! [/CoreyMatt]
*May bees be upon her
Excellent Corey/Matt form. I am sad, since now, I no longer believe that the magical protective underwear thing was from Canadianaland… because it’s cold up there, and polar and grizzly bears abound… and it’s cold.
No… you know what?
I’m still going to believe that it’s about Canadianaland and maybe Alaska… and the South Pole, and Siberia. I’m scared of grizzly and polar bears, and hypothermia.
Maybe we should knit a cap for America’s Hat.
IN MY MAN PANTS I CAN DO ANYTHING!
*Puts on his over-sized tighty whiteys*
If you put your MAN PANTS on America’s Hat, would that make it America’s Asshat?
America’s Asshat? No, I think that’s Donald Trump or someone similar.
I thought that
(if you’re a political conservative, stop reading here)
Dubya was America’s asshat?
Manpants should always be covered by America’s Hat. Because as you know… “you should always keep it under your hat”.
At least until it’s time to air out your dirty laundry.
I wanted to go there, Astro, but I also didn’t want to step on toes. Thanks for doin’ my dirty work, sonny! 8)
You learn something new every day! I grew up not far from Palmyra, NY and had several friends in college who were LDS but this is the first I’ve ever heard of said undergarments. That “magic” portion of this post sort of slipped by me I guess.
I read about them a long time ago and filed it away in the Oddodex along with all the other seemingly random bits that pass for my brain.
Manda, whereabouts? I went to high school just south of Rochester, and I’ve got some good friends in Pittsford 🙂
EB – the first 4 years of my life were in Macedon. From 4 to 22 we lived in Webster (just west of Rochester). We have common old stomping grounds apparently. 🙂 I miss Western New York!
I lived in West Henrietta, but I worked in Webster one summer :-p I miss NY sometimes, too…. Not enough green here in the desert where I live!
Southern Tier in the house, here. 😉
(Edited to add: I grew up there, but moved away, and away, and away.)
Good times! There are some beauuutiful parks in the Southern Tier!
Ok. Hours later I read my response and thought to myself, “Self, Webster is EAST of the Roc, not West.”
I’m going to blame the kids for stealing my brain. 🙂
It’s OK, I just assumed I was remembering my east and west wrong :-p I’ve got it easy in Utah–east is towards the big mountain :-p
Proud to say I grew up within stalking distance of our beloved Llama-nun!
You don’t have poofy hair, EB – the new ‘do is awesome!
Thanks SJ 🙂 I’m actually completely anti-poof (also called “the Utah bump”)… I think it looks really silly :-p
Thanks, EB. I’m not LDS/Mormon but I grew up around a fair amount of them, and was trying to figure out how to corey this even as I had limited knowledge – I knew they weren’t magic, but that they were different in some way. If GrahamT, who I believe is either LDS or from Utah or both (in addition to being Jewish, which is a combo I’d not heretofore knowingly encountered), were here, he might have stepped in, but you did so in the nicest possible way. Sometimes it can be hard to explain something that is meaningful to you in a neutral fashion.
Basically, it’s like a Catholic scapular worn under clothing, or a Jewish prayer tallis that is visible only by its fringes (I don’t have other analogies, but they probably exist), if I understand correctly. Thanks.
Graham’s Judeo-Mormon? That’s a strange (but awesome) combo.
That is pretty awesome, actually… I’ve got a friend that’s Judeo-atheist, but that’s different :-p Too bad he’s not around anymore…. 🙁
Possibly/probably … maybe he’ll come by and clarify. But yes – I used to trade Yiddish with him (I’m not Jewish, but I love Yiddish) on occasion and he said something about having a Jewish grandparent. And he never said it directly that I recall that he was LDS, but definitely lived in Utah and made the occasional reference.
Now EB, to be fair, she was talking about Wisconsin, she just forgot the “taco” before the “magic.” 😉
Joking aside, I’m glad you spoke up. Sometimes we snark so much we forget that we might offending folk we care about.
Also, dang there’s a lot of New Yorkers here!
EB — I certainly didn’t mean to offend, and I actually do know (and understand) the Mormon undergarment thing. Please take it in the same spirit with which I say things like “Clothespin Jeebus” (or any of the other idiotic things I say).
Ah–got it. The internet/written word is sometimes hard on tone and intention. There are a lot of people, my parents included, that are weird/belittling about it, so I probably already have a soft spot. Thanks for making your intent clear for me 🙂
That’s fascinating!
By the way, I like the coreys from the YSaC crowd, they’re always informative rather than trying to break up the snark, and I enjoy learning new things. ♥
::sniffle:: Thanks all, for making me feel like a jerk 🙂
Edit: Agh!!! I meant to say, thanks for making me feel like not a jerk!!
You’re welcome EB. You jerk. 😉
But you *aren’t* a jerk so you oughtn’t feel like one. [Edit: this makes no sense now that EB has corrected HER post]
You spoke up in the nicest possible way about something that was bugging you, just as our illustrious Llamanun did yesterday.
We appreciate your courage in doing so!
If Al Sharpton was around he’d be so proud of us. 😀
He’d probably give us some fried chicken and collard greens he’d be so proud!
**phone rings**
Oh, hey, he just called, and now we can tell him all about it!
*watches Al Sharpton send Astro to the corner*
Did something LDS related happen that was redacted?
The phrase in the post up top “magical protective underwear” hit a nerve with EB, who enlightened us. Does that make more sense now, Smed?
The Knickers
Sew my little panties now, panties now.
When you gonna give me the time, Sparkette?
Ooh you make my serger run, my serger run.
Run it comin’ up the hem line Sparkette
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch
of the boxer kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Sparkette…
Come a little closer huh, ah will ya huh.
Close enough thread my eyes, Sparkette.
Pullin’ its elasticity, gets to me
Sewin’ down the length of kids thighs, Sparkette
Never gonna stop, give it up. Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch
of the boxer kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Sparkette…
When you gonna let me knit, let me knit.
or will you buy fruit of the loom, Sparkette
Is it just a BVD, BVD?
why don’t you just buy the store kind, Sparkette?
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch
of the boxer kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Sparkette…
I love you, I love you, I love you, HamCan.
*Blushes*
A million home-sewn doors! I was just listening to this song this morning, HC, and now it will be in my head for the remainder of the day as well!
*Blushes2*
Grammy nod!
Grammy panties?
“Hello, Mummy!”
So getting this one stuck in my head.
I actually believe the “knickerpocalypse” already occurred. Wasn’t that when the paparazzi took all those pictures of Britney Spears showing all of her bronze table lady bits while exiting a car?
I think that was Cootchgate.
That was the “Ickyknickerpocalypse”
Pantypocalypse?
Antipantypocalypse? (Since she wasn’t wearing any.)
Er, bronze? :/ Wut? MandaB, can you elucidate (or will I regret asking about “bronze table”?)?
Antipantypocalypse is the first album from Knickerpocalypse.
Vol. 291
http://www.yousuckatcraigslist.com/?p=1903
Oooohhhh, riiiiight. Sorry, insufficient caffeine/Friday afternoon/migraine recovery* has me a little slow on the uptake.
*Not great, but definitely preferable to still having it.
Aww, I hate migraines. My prescription gets rid of them, but then it also makes me nauseous so depending on the severity/availability of other options (like a nap in a dark room) I sometimes just wait them out. I’d try a different prescription but I’ve already tried several and this one works the best.
‘Cept if you look close, you can see that she is actually wearing bottoms of some sort with swirly textures and bows tied on the sides.
I think that’s mentioned in the comments somewhere, I didn’t look that closely at the picture.
I avoided looking that close as much as possible….
Bridgete, when they have happened at work, I have been known to turn the light off in the office and just use my desk lamp because of the light sensitivity. Or, if I have to keep the light on (I have an officemate), I look like some kind of pretentious twit because I’m in a windowless office with Ray-Bans on. Sometimes my worst nausea is after. Have you ever had an ocular migraine? They are rare for me, but I’m exhausted and nauseated after.
Eeep, actually forgot to check up today. Sorry! I was being all anxiety-ish and moody. I’m okay now.
1). Who in the world feels that they need to have homemade undies rather than store bought? It’s not like they are cheaper. Perhaps momma has objections to mainstream characters?
2). I bought my guy Batman, Superman, Darth Vader, and Iron man boxers. Okay, I lie…the Iron Man ones are actual undies. The way the pictures are set out is pretty funny, too. Oh, and the Darth Vader ones? Yeah, the butt says, “Dark Side” heheheheehe. (tmi???)
3) I owned R2D2 underoos as a kid, and would be ECSTATIC if I found a pair to fit me now.
4)Much respect to EB for making her point so clearly, and explaining without jumping to being offended. I’m a “born-again” Christian, and I know sometimes it’s a tightrope to point out a need for respect while not coming across as easily offended and/or overly sensitive. Great respect for the YSaC “group”, too, for being so un-trolley when someone brings up things like this.
5) See you guys tomorrow!!!!
EDIT: WELCOME HOME ISAAC!
We’re an un-trolley? Does that mean we have to use cars to navigate through San Francisco*?
😀
*That’s the one with all the hills and the trolleys, right?
[corey] A large number of cities have had trolley systems and several have had cable cars. San Francisco is the one that appears to have made the greatest effort to preserve its cable cars and has actually acquired historical trolleys from several other cities to use on their F line along the piers.
I worked just off the F line for a few months and LOVED riding in the old cars as a part of my commute, horrible rush hour crowding notwithstanding.
[/corey]
http://www.streetcar.org/
http://www.cablecarmuseum.org/
I have a streetcar corey in moderation for you Astro. It will arrive presently.
Oh, yes. San Francisco has hills.
I HATE driving stick in San Fran.
Corey question: I thought streetcars were exclusive to New Orleans, cable cars were exclusive to San Fransisco and everywhere else they are trolleys.
I never rode the old time-y trolleys when I lived in SF, but I took the muni everywhere and was probably way too amused every time it switched from surface roads to tunnels and back. Oh, and I also called it the subway, which made the natives laugh at me.
Ah, [transportation corey]
Street car operates on tracks set into public streets.
Cablecar is a method of powering a street car (an electric motor pulls the cable, the car clamps on to either climb or brake)
Trolley operates either its own rails or Right-of-Way (RoW) or on public streets, or both.
Trolley-bus is like a bus, in that it is free of tracks, but is powered by an overhead catenary electrical wire for power.
Bus is a self-powered, multi-seat, vehicle which operates on public streets. (There is a variant called Bus Rapid Transit, which is a standard bus on a dedicated RoW.)
A tram used to be any system where the passenger vehicles are pulled or towed by a separate power unit. These would operate on rails, or on RoW. Now, a tram is a rail-car sized unit with rubber tires, on a dedicated route defined by an exclusive RoW or overhead power, or both.
Light rail is a dedicated system using railroad rails and wheels, but for buss-sized cars. It is “light” as the rails need not carry heavy cargo rail cars.
Passenger rail is dedicated passenger cars equipped to operate on a heavy cargo rail system.
There is another category, if a bit dated, called “inter-urban.” This was often a mule or jenny pulled street car that connected cities that were within a few miles of each other. Some were on rails, others used public streets. Some of these transit systems still exist, they often use a “coach” bus.
Ah, the things one learns designing transit hubs and as an urban planner (or meeting potentially pointless municipal planning requirements).
[/corey]
Some
snatchfragment of movie dialogue has been going through my head all day and I just can’t place it. Does anyone recognize the phrase “They were Satan’s panties!”? I think Sandra Bullock was in it if that helps.Ms. Congeniality, wasn’t it??? It was the baton twirling girl!!!
YES! Thank you. It was the flaming baton girl. I could NOT get it for some reason.
I can hear her now.
Oooo.. you’re in BIG trouble now.
Sandra Bullock was in Satan’s panties? Who woulda guessed it! I can think of some others that seemed much more likely.
(wanders back to the corner, mumbling…)
Some other panties Sandra Bullock would be more likely to be in, or some other people that would be more likely to be in Satan’s panties? :-p
I dunno if our web bosses will allow this, as I’m still finding all the rules here, but this thread reminds me of a comic I like to read, and I figured I should share the joy. http://thedevilspanties.com/
Sharing is welcome. Thanks!
One of my all time faves, KatyCat! I have had the pleasure of meeting Jennie Breeden at Comic Con Int. here in San Diego, and she remembers me! She even did a comic from a suggestion of mine. 8)
Edit: It will come as no surprise to you that the idea had to do with potties.
Sandra’s buttock was in those panties I think you’ll find.
i bet the little bastids are home schooled too, and that’s why someone has to make their underwear. maybe they have to sit in a dark little room and read the bible all day.
or not.
lady – go to target and buy some underroos for yer kids. if they go to public schools, you know how someones will make fun of their home made drawers?
ugh, scarred for life they will be.
But when would anyone be seeing their “homemade drawers”?
Unless the teacher is
old, snarky, and looks to be a muppeta pedostalker?😀
I’m using a lot of smileys today.
Hmm – I seem to have lost an ‘r’ somewhere along the line – if anyone finds it, please tuck it in between the ‘G’ and the ‘a’.
(Bet those darn kids took it when they were cutting across the lawn – “Keep off my yard, you little guttersnipes!!)
I ended up posting as “nnBlue” a couple times earlier this week, I think. As a fellow sufferer of “what the crud just happened?” I’ll keep an eye out for your *pirate voice* AARRRrrrrs.
Is anyone going to read down this far?
Am I weird that I don’t think its that weird? Or at least not weird enough for YSaC?
Maybe its because I sew (for enjoyment and creativity not for any kind of affordability issues) and you can use the leftover scraps of fabric to make undies … don’t you want undies that match your shirts? LOL
Oh and you have to factor into the cost of the undies the pattern http://www.pinkchalkfabrics.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1939
Or maybe this chick should just go here and get these http://hyenacart.com/ThePamperedTush/ or a custom ones here http://hyenacart.com/SuperSkivvies/index.php?p=22720
Some one always reads down to the end.
Whether that is helpful can be debated.
So, after all of that, is it actually cost effective to have someone make underwear for your kids? That’s what boggles my mind.
My mind! It is blown again!
Wonder if the urgency is due to how fast they will outgrow any size of clothing made or purchased?
***Professional roofer turned seamster***
Hi there, I am looking to turn my life-long hobby into a new business.
That’s right, I’m selling
UNDIES,UNDIES,UNDIES,UNDIES,UNDIES,UNDIES,
UNDIES,UNDIES,UNDIES,UNDIES,UNDIES,UNDIES,
UNDIES,UNDIES,UNDIES,UNDIES,UNDIES,UNDIES.
I will sew custom undies for 2-4 year olds.
I have developed a way to sew teflon(R) into undergarments,
(Pat pending).
Avoid child labor. These beauties slide up and down with ease.
Avoid the mess. These beauties practically clean themselves. Just wipe with any handy cloth. Re-usable and dishwasher safe.
For a virtually squick-proof deployment, order my deluxe version with Hoover attachment.
THEY’RE KNICKERIFFIC!
Also available in grammy and grampdaddy sizes.
Order yours now for just 30 obos.
LOL
(thankfully I was not drinking tea this time)
If I never get the opportunity to use “knickeriffic” in my lifetime, I will consider it a life wasted.
*Gives spacebug a door*
**squints† at SpaceBug**
Aren’t you usually some sort of bird?
†Squints, not winks. **shudder**
Yeah, it’s a griffon vulture. -just followed me home from the interwebs one day-
He/she/it/hu/xe/that one/ (can’t get close enough for a gender check) is very handy at cleaning the ranch (yard) here abouts.
These comp.pewter thingies sometimes kon.foos.eh.kate me and I lose the gravatar.
Thanks for the UnWinK -thatdabecreepy
OT: I was just called a hipster by a hipster. His beard was not quite a full as My. Winky’s, but he looked just as, if not more hobo-ish. I was taken aback. Aside from being slightly disheveled from the heat, I do not look at all like a hipster.
Sorry, but I just had to share that with the world.
Your Winky’s? Something you would like to admit to?
**winks at Smedley. Does not deign to wink at christina.**
Your Winkey?
As if.
**snorts in disdain.**
Also, I feel I can sympathize with Ms. Bridgete officially. People keep dropping the E out of my name.
**sighs dejectedly**
I swear you had it spelled “Winky” the other day.
AH, yes! A good Punchity Punch Punch to Bianchi Sound!
G’Night, Utah!
Wow, 2300 just flew past and I clearly did not notice other than to feed the cat. My day is clean 6 hours out of sync.