My pants are freaking me out.

[Dangerously Amused]

Seriously.

For the past several weeks, more often than not, they have been turning themselves inside-out in the laundry. It doesn't matter whether they are my dress slacks for work or my workout/lounge pants. Sometimes it's just one leg, but usually it's both. And I'm not doing anything differently, either: same washer and dryer, same wash/spin/dry cycles, same detergent and same water temperature, even.

Is this some kind of a omen? Is the earth falling into an inverse rotation? Does that happen to anybody else but me?!?


:scared:

[Jade Fox]

1. Does this sound familiar?

http://home.netpower.no/knuth/wwiso/wwiso.html

[Dangerously Amused]

4. Aw, that was cute!

I never read that before, and I'm a big Seuss fan, too. Thanks for learnin' me something!


:hi:









Edit: Hello, DA! "E" goes before "u" in Seuss!

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. It's quite simple

You're so incredibly freaking hawt, even the appliances want to get into your pants.

[RetroLounge]

3. OMG!

DUZY AWARD!

:rofl:

RL

[Dangerously Amused]

5. LOL!

:rofl:


Must. Not. Make. Obvious. Joke. About. Appliances. In. My. Pants.


ANYway. I think maybe they're trying to shake them down for loose change so they can blow it on beer and cigs.

[lizziegrace]

6. ...

:rofl:


:popcorn:


I love this thread. :)

[Dangerously Amused]

7. Ahh, my sweet and beautiful sister!

Can I stay at your place if it turns out my pants are possessed?


:scared:



(Somehow, this just seems like it should be a LaraMN thread, donit?)

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. You mean it isn't?

I figured your pants were channeling her. :shrug:

[Dangerously Amused]

9. AHA!

If they're suddenly and mysteriously stuffed with Cheetos later on, we'll know it's the MN family for SURE!


:rofl:

[lizziegrace]

10. Of course you can, you goof!

:)

It'd be more fun than I've had in a long time.

Even if your pants aren't possessed, you can come visit anytime!

:hug:

[Dangerously Amused]

14. Yay! We really, REALLY have to get together one of these days.

Hey, aren't you one of billyskank's stops in the near future? Hmmm... HMMMM... My schedule has changed a little for the upcoming months. If I could make it, that would be ridiculously beyond cool.


:bounce:

[lizziegrace]

19. He's here the 15th of this month

if you want to come for the entire weekend then see Billy on Monday...

:bounce:

PM me if you want

:bounce:

[Dangerously Amused]

23. Ohhhhhhh man, that is tempting!

I MAY be able to rearrange my schedule. WOULDN'T THAT BE AWESOME?!?!1!!


:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:


I will PM you after doing some checking around. Maybe not until next week tho.


=fingers crossed=

[lizziegrace]

26. Yay!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Lelapin's about 30 minutes away too. :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. You're welcome.

Wait, what? :P

[Dangerously Amused]

12. YOU! You're the Laundry Gremlin Pants-Turner-Inside-Outer!

Bah! I shoulda known! I suppose you've been the one responsible for stealing my socks too, arencha? Ohhhh!


Dude, I'll keep you good for cigs and beer if you just stop messing with my pants. And socks.


Please?


=quivering pouty lip=

[KitchenWitch]

13. Do you share laundry facilities with someone else?

[Dangerously Amused]

17. Heya Kitchy!

:hi:


For the most part I'm the only one using the laundry room. But this happens when I'm right there, like the only one home and working on something else between loads.

Hmmm. I've been doing some landscaping around the house lately. Maybe I'm disturbing some sacred burial ground, or something.


:scared:

[Richard Steele]

15. Clearly, it's the washer that's possessed.

There's been alot of that going around since B*sh took office.

Didn't you notice when the Maytag commercials started featuring
an OLD Maytag Repairman and a YOUNG Maytag repairman? That was
a subtle "we perform exorcisms" message to everyone who saw
"the Exorcist".

[Dangerously Amused]

25. Well, good. Because I was afraid it might be me.

I'll cancel my appointment to see the priest then about that little "spinning head" issue I've been dealing with. Which, frankly, can be a very useful skill to have in certain situations. Now if I can just figure out how to capitalize on it and turn a few bucks.

So anyway I wonder if the Maytag folk can still exorcise non-Maytag washer/dryer units. Crap - we may be out of luck if they were heathen units to begin with.


:(

[Redstone]

16. I'd shoot the washing machine. Twice, just to be sure. And the drier as well.

You cannot allow your appliances to do such things to you.

Redstone

(Hey, it's been a while. Hope all is well with you these days.)

[Dangerously Amused]

20. Good idea. Guess I'll hafta start shopping around for silver bullets, then.

I wonder if eBay has any...


I'm doing okay, thanks. My bro is stable at the moment. Not necessarily a good thing if you're him. I know you understand.

Anyway, I saw your thread on race yesterday and I spent a while online last night looking for a very well-written article I found a few years ago about how "race" is entirely a social construct and has only the meaning that any given person allows it to have. It was fascinating and went into great detail about how courts in different countries throughout time have assigned "race" based on varying and sometimes conflicting criteria, and what their motivation was for assigning "race" in the first place (largely for political/personal gain and always, but always as a way to justify practices which would be loudly decried as illegal and immoral if enacted by members of the deciding/ruling class against others of the same class).

It also made note of how many people, especially Americans, who consider themselves "pure" white/caucasian actually have African American ancestry due to the intermingling of the "races" back in slave days (generally white slave owners using their female slaves for sex), because records were never, of course, kept of those "illicit" and (literally) illegal unions. Something like 11-13% of all Americans.

I loved that article and thought I bookmarked it, but I couldn't find it after all. :(

Anyway, I had been thinking that if your wife read something like that and it got her to thinking about how and why some cultures place a value on "racial" denotations, and whether or not those denotations actually have any merit, which is to say, whether or not she chooses to grant them any merit in her life... well, it might help her to reframe the issue she is struggling with.

I'm sorry I couldn't find the article. I did come across some articles like it, but none that I thought were as well-written and concise. Amazon also had some books on the subject that looked promising. I'll keep looking, though.

Anyway, thanks for your washer/dryer advice. It is duly noted and I am off in search of silver bullets now. Best to you and that lovely missus of yours. As always.

[Redstone]

22. You're a peach. But you knew that already.

Redstone

[unpossibles]

18. I would take it as a sign to stop wearing them!

that'll show 'em who's boss.

[Dangerously Amused]

27. So I should just be like all submissive

...and let my washer and dryer wear the pants in the family?


Geez dude, I don't know. Next thing you know they'll take control of my finances and blow it all sucking down gallons of cheap liquid detergent and huffing scented dryer sheets.


:(

[spinbaby]

21. It's the vortex

Every time the interdimensional vortex sucks in a sock or spits out a sock, it turns a pant leg inside out. It's worse with those new high-velocity, front-loading washers. :eyes:

[Dangerously Amused]

28. ...FINALLY!!

A logical explanation!!1!!


Thank you!


Hmmm... Let's see. It appears that the pants legs may actually function as a type of wormhole for sock travel to the other dimension. I wonder if there is a way to disable the vortex. Gotta be, right? Though I suppose I should arm myself with a few thousand mateless socks to throw at the vortex to keep it occupied while I attempt to disable it; methinks it wise to leverage the element of surprise given that my sock supply will be finite and the vortex potentially infinite.

Well, I'm off to start my Sock Ammunition collection! Thanks again!


=skips merrily off=

[Inchworm]

24. Pants?

Laundry?

hehe

:hi:

[Dangerously Amused]

29. You're right.

I should just run around nekid alla time. Life would be SO much simpler then.


:hi:

[billyskank]

30. Your pants are freaking me out too

:hi:

[Dangerously Amused]

32. billysweet! Yays!

Sorry 'bout my freaky pants, hon.


:hi:

[Fran Kubelik]

31. This is the best thread title ever.

I laugh every single time I read it. :thumbsup:

[Dangerously Amused]

33. Heeeee!

Every time I see it, I keep thinking that it should really be a LaraMN or Sugar Smack thread.


Glad it gives you a giggle, tho.


:7


:hi: