A ball bouncing game from my youth instructed the player to throw the ball up ( plainsies ), throw it up and clap ( clapsies ) throw it up and roll your hands ( roll the ball ) and touch your shoulders ( tabapsies ). In trying to locate the rest of the ball bouncing chant, I found out not only is my “tabapsies” a mondegreen , but also the motion – touching your shoulders – isn’t even the correct movement! You are supposed to clap your hands behind your back and say “ to backsies .” Yeah. That makes much more sense. Being only slightly deflated by this discovery, I will still share my exciting news. In an attempt to counteract the stretching of my wrist from doing front squats two days in a row, I pulled out the tabapsies motion this morning. This, in itself, is not newsworthy. However, I grabbed both shoulders with all five fingers!!! Again, not exciting unless you know that when I was nine years-old, I broke my left elbow doing a running c...
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This of course has led to numerous smelly, sweaty, carbon footprint jokes.
C. August, do you like the socks? Do they have value in other ways, or are they just an attempt to buy you an indulgence to ease your way toward carbon redemption?
I think they were simply on sale. Or perhaps my mom was trying to make a little joke and see if she could jerk my chain a little bit.
But, I do think that Gold Toe is trying to cash in on the Carbon Indulgences trend, just like everyone else. I don't have a problem with companies trying to profit from making products people want to buy... I just wish "going green" wasn't as effective of a marketing technique as it appears to be.
Wow. That's one sad commentary.
I'm a somewhat new Objectivist blogger, at The Nearby Pen and Systemically Important so this was not only funny but inspirational to boot.