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Originally Posted by Boomer
Oh my! Oh deah! Oh deah! I hope that rumor that went around here a decade or so ago is not back.
First, I will tell you what those loofahs really mean. AND THEN I will tell you what used to be said — but only if you promise not to believe that scandalous rumor:
Those loofahs are truly and merely to indicate where the car is parked.
I don’t have a loofah on my car. But as the owner of a white car with Florida plates, I can tell you that not paying perfect attention to where I had parked has caused me to end up pushing my grocery cart aimlessly through Publix parking lot, while trying to look confident — like I know whereinthehell I parked that Honda.
BUT somehow, somewhere, a long time ago, a rumor was started that said those loofah’d cars belonged to swingers, swappers, a key-party group. Not true. I have NEVER once seen anything unseemly in the backseats of those cars.
That salacious loofah rumor went around about the same time as the one that said to never wear red shoes while sitting at an outside bar in TV or people would think you were a hooker. (That rumor was so long ago that Brownwood had not even been built yet and LSL City Fire had a different name.)
All righty then, now, I have cleared all that up. Aren’t you glad you asked.  |
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Originally Posted by Spoiler
Hmmm, and now I’m in a dilemma...
My problem is that recently I bought some cool red shoes because they match the color of my car.... and now I read this thread...
Good grief... 
Sign me,
Not a hooker in Monarch Grove |
FINALLY! A thread where we can laugh a little.
(TV is so big and so well-known that the rumors will never stop. It is a unique place. Nothing like it anywhere. Just gotta laugh.)
More than once, I have found myself putting that STD rumor in perspective:
You should hear me explain how an increase based on percentages can be relatively meaningless. Example: If there are 2 cases, followed by a total of 3 cases, then you tell me — what is the percentage increase that can be claimed. Just ask Big Pharma how those studies can skew things when touting percentages of increases or decreases —whatever works.
That ridiculous STD rumor grabbed tabloidy headlines more than 10 years ago.
We visited friends in a retirement community in SC, and that was the first thing they — and their neighbors — wanted to hear about. I defended TV’s reputation by tediously demonstrating percentage math — over wine and cheese.
The rumors about TV will never end so we might as well laugh.
Also — re. my white car with the Florida plates, though I have lost it before, I really do usually do that thing with lining up my parking spot with the building and taking a picture with my mind.
I always get a pinstripe on my car because, not only do I like pinstripes, but my pinstripe, more than once, has saved me from pulling on the wrong car door handle. Before my pinstriped car, I once terrified some guy who was sitting in his car, not mine.
AND:
Spoiler! I have to tellya — You, Sir, have a gift for wit. Your post and that picture of your shoes made me snort, in a most unladylike manner.
My advice: I think you will be OK — just be sure not to wear those gorgeous new red shoes with booty shorts.