ring-around-the-collar laundry aid ads.
No one washes those kinds of shirts at home anymore.
Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.
'Shindig'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
brenda m - Nov 22, 2013 11:12:42 am PST #12690 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Jessica - Nov 22, 2013 11:13:38 am PST #12691 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Which seem to have largely disappeared, now that I think of it -- people haven't stopped sweating in their shirts or shaming (people they assume to be) housewives, so whatever happened to the OMG crisis-level national epidemic?
Market research indicates that ads where women do nothing but cheerfully wash their kids' clothes are marginally less offensive than ones where women gain life satisfaction from washing their husband's clothes, I assume?
amych - Nov 22, 2013 11:15:12 am PST #12692 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
No one washes those kinds of shirts at home anymore.
Huh. You're right. Thank goodness, as it allows that portion of the national shame budget to be reallocated to telling women they're destroying their children and/or betraying the feminist movement by taking a selfie!
Sophia Brooks - Nov 22, 2013 11:29:44 am PST #12693 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
There were also commercials in the 90's for Surf where the kids said "Phew, Dad! Your shirt smells!" which cracks me up.
shrift - Nov 22, 2013 11:30:17 am PST #12694 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Am now watching Colbert from the other night, and I can't believe how much of an asshole Rick Santorum still is.
I'm behind on both The Daily Show & Colbert. Last night I was wondering why I was watching Joe Scarborough on TDS when I could be watching Lego Batman.
Steph L. - Nov 22, 2013 12:36:01 pm PST #12695 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
"gray collar workers"
I thought it was a euphemism for people paid off the books (or under the table -- some prepositional phrase, for sure) for their labor, in an attempt to make every category of worker into some sort of "collar." Because isn't "pink collar" a thing, or wasn't someone trying to make it a thing? (Stop trying to make "fetch" happen!)
Sophia Brooks - Nov 22, 2013 12:40:08 pm PST #12696 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Pink collar are secretaries
Jessica - Nov 22, 2013 12:40:35 pm PST #12697 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Pink collar are secretaries
And nurses and teachers, right?
amych - Nov 22, 2013 12:40:53 pm PST #12698 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Pink Collar is totally a thing -- the phrase goes back to the 70s, and it's pretty widely used/understood.
Jessica - Nov 22, 2013 12:43:33 pm PST #12699 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm still at work because I'm going to a thing that starts at 7 and there's really no point in going home first. This means I can sit at my desk playing Tiny Death Star for the next half-hour, right?