I'll have to ask my mom what clothespins she prefers. I know she has opinions (and actual clothespins, though I also know she won't part with them). I hope it's not that she's just managed to hold onto the good ones over the years...

I am a lazy bum who doesn't even have a clothesline, but I have cheap-ass wooden clothespins to hold my outgoing mail on my mailslot cover.

Eta: Pink Gingham FTW!

13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using - Mental Floss

2. Percontation Point or Rhetorical Question Mark

The backward question mark was proposed by Henry Denham in 1580 as an end to a rhetorical question, and was used until the early 1600s.

3. Irony Mark

It looks a lot like the percontation point, but the irony mark’s location is a bit different, as it is smaller, elevated, and precedes a statement to indicate its intent before it is read. Alcanter de Brahm introduced the idea in the 19th century, and in 1966 French author Hervé Bazin proposed a similar glyph in his book, Plumons l’Oiseau, along with 5 other innovative marks.

I was hoping there'd be a sarcasm mark.

The SarcMark (short for “sarcasm mark”) was invented, copyrighted and trademarked by Paul Sak, and while it hasn’t seen widespread use, Sak markets it as “The official, easy-to-use punctuation mark to emphasize a sarcastic phrase, sentence or message.” Because half the fun of sarcasm is pointing it out [SarcMark].

And there's a snark mark!

I don't normally have that many loads to do, but my T-shirts and towels are clearly way out of control. I have no idea what "regular" looks like. My laundry sorts out into hard and soft, whites and colours, and I'll do a bag of whichever as soon as the need manifests, or a bagful has accumulated. I very rarely do All The Laundry.

Freeze dried clothes are still damp when they thaw, but whapping the cat with a frozen sock is one of the perks of winter. Though that sometimes results in a snapped sock.

edit: Yes, I have snapped socks. Not in two, but the fibers were compromised enough that several snapped when frozen, resulting in unwearable socks.

Desperately craving egg custard, no idea why.

I have no idea what this is. Apparently I have never had one.

If it's a windy cold day, the wind pretty much leaches most of the moisture out of the fabric before it freezes. Dump the basket on a bed in a heated room and toss it like a salad every ten-fifteen minutes for an hour, and you're good to fold and put away. Heavier stuff (jeans), hang on a pants hanger (or regular hanger with clothespins) on the shower rod, or a curtain rod till dry.

Or you could be a masochist like my mother (if you were a good wife, *you'd* do it this way, too!) and frikkin *iron* all the damp pieces dry. I've never been a good wife.

Mystery solved! I have been curious for year!

Egg Custard reminds me that I had no idea that all frozen ice cream from an ice cream machine wasn't custard. I thought that is just what you called the stuff on cones (vanilla, chocolate or twist). I think this is because Rochester is practically the home of frozen custard. (and white hots. And the garbage plate. And apparently Chicken French (which is served in Italian restaurants) )

I love the fact that you're familiar enough about clothespins and their use to *be* picky.

My opinion, let me show you it! But seriously, a good clothespin makes a difference. And hanging laundry out to dry changes that part of the chore to something I enjoy. Plus our weather is so lovely we can do it basically all year, and now that the "temporary" line is on the deck under cover, I can even hang laundry out in rain or snow. Since the equinox, I get northeast sun slanting in to the deck, so I get both sun on the line and cover, at the same time! As long as I do it early enough in the day, thus the load every other day methodology.

It's dry enough here that freeze drying is plenty dry.

I used to have a little hanging bag like that dress, only it was a kids' shirt. I think the old missionaries before us just sewed up the bottom of one of their kids' shirts when he outgrew it. But alas, it belonged to the house, and I had to leave it when I left.

So yeah, I should go bring in what's on the line now, huh?

I use regular cheapo clothespins to close chip and cereal bags, and they're great for crafts with kids.

Chicken French

Is that different from Chicken Francaise?

I don't know- this is it: [link] There is also Artichokes French.