I have no idea what brothel creepers are, but I'm pretty sure that winkle pickers are super-pointy shoes.
Yup: men's winkle pickers, though if you google there are way, way pointier versions around.
Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JZ - Nov 15, 2005 7:00:34 am PST #4239 of 10006
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
tommyrot - Nov 15, 2005 7:02:24 am PST #4240 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
but I'm pretty sure that winkle pickers are super-pointy shoes.
Looks like: [link]
![[link]](http://image.www.rakuten.co.jp/georges2/img10631233935.jpeg){kind=link}
I think I need a pair of those too.
eta: Maybe in white: [link]
![[link]](http://image.www.rakuten.co.jp/georges2/img10631233937.jpeg){kind=link}
Oddly (or maybe not), both of these are from a Japanese site.
Theodosia - Nov 15, 2005 7:03:35 am PST #4241 of 10006
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Heh, tommyrot -- I think NoiseDesign has a pair just like those.
DXMachina - Nov 15, 2005 7:05:01 am PST #4242 of 10006
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I have no idea what brothel creepers are, but I'm pretty sure that winkle pickers are super-pointy shoes.
The brothel creepers look a lot like Hec's flamey sneakers.
It looks like winkle pickers are similar to cockroach killers in this country.
JZ - Nov 15, 2005 7:05:07 am PST #4243 of 10006
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Whole page of super pointy-ass winkle pickers.
Theodosia - Nov 15, 2005 7:07:39 am PST #4244 of 10006
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
November 15th 2005 will go down as the day tommyrot discovered his inner Teddy Boy.
§ ita § - Nov 15, 2005 7:08:10 am PST #4245 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think I like pointy toed men's shoes more than I like pointy-toed women's shoes.
Perhaps because I don't wear them.
bon bon - Nov 15, 2005 7:13:50 am PST #4246 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
OK, I confess that when I say "hair band," I really mean Poison. Because I luuuuv them.
bret michaels was the hawt.
I don't know you two anymore. Unskinny Bop?!
§ ita § - Nov 15, 2005 7:15:10 am PST #4247 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cellphone bank robber caught. Now they can ask her who she was talking to.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 15, 2005 7:16:05 am PST #4248 of 10006
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Heh, all this pointy shoe talk makes me think of "Boromir's" death in BORED OF THE RINGS:
"... Bromosel started to sprint, but catching his feet in his sword belt, he tripped and impaled himself on his pointed shoes. "Ye doom is ycomme true," he groaned. "