Not thine own so proper as to waste

Sep 12, 2011 12:43


Gratifying to relate, this
forget-me-not panties will help protect the women in your life!
was a hoax. However, less gratifying to relate
Thousands of men from all over the world tried to buy our panties... and they were not alone. Lots of women begged us to make Forget Me Not Boxers.

We had over 600,000 people come to our site in 3 weeks, and then shortly after that we hit a million, and then we lost count.

If you thought Forget Me Not Panties were real, you got duped, but you aren't stupid. We had over 300 distribution requests and 90% of the press we got never figured out the "GPS panties" was really an art project.

and would we be entirely stunned if it turned out that somebody was trying to make these things for real?

Alas, I think not.

In further distressing news about women's bodies G+ is promoting a "Booberday" meme of sharing photographs of cleavage. Purportedly in support of Breast Cancer Awareness. Quite apart from the slippage that happened when there was that 'post a picture of your bra' on FaceBook, where it quite soon lost any connection with any good causeness, it seems to me to be like that 'Men like Boobies, Look After Yours' awareness campaign that was going around and caused furore.

What between the 'women are support systems for male-pleasing body parts' and 'let's police women's bodies some more', Tonstant Weader is feeling somewhat nauseous and so is the codfish.

Plus, am pretty sure that they want cleavage of a youthful, fit, and perky nature, rather than what might be an interesting exercise, the vast and diverse range of what individual women's mammaries actually look like.

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And in the Depts of O Tempora O Mores and Do People Proof-Read Anymore?
A flyer through the door today offers 'Fine Indian Dinning'. I have grown inured to the concept of 'fine dining' being available for delivery and promoted by flyers through local doorways, but plz can they be proofing these first??? (Also, if you now have a website on which customers may preorder, might it not be a good idea to include this info on your flyers? Marketing ur doin it rong.)

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