Comments on: Surprising paths to Shapely Prose

By: Lidon

Lidon — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:38:16 +0000

AHAHAHAHAHA. Oh my. Anyway, I second Sugar Leigh.

By: Liza

Liza — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:38:39 +0000

It would be so much fun to write an Insensitive Uncle Fat column. Oh, the sarcasm and snark…the opportunities are endless. *drool*

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:19:36 +0000

*snicker*
And I thought someone searching on my blog for “short model swimsuits” and “cat loaf of bread” was silly!

By: allisonwonder

allisonwonder — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:34:37 +0000

Jane- forget “hanky-panky underwear yeast infection” as an album title- I want to form a BAND just so I can use the name!

You’re all too funny. :)

By: Meg Thornton

Meg Thornton — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:30:45 +0000

Oh gods. Impulse body spray. In mid-1980s Australian high school culture, the two popular scents were “Incense” and “Musk” – and if you ever needed to find the girls change room at the gym, you waited until the end of the phys ed class, and tracked the scent of either of those back to its origin. I couldn’t stand either of them, since they tended to be sprayed around with the sort of gay abandon which ensured the company which produced them (Rexona, I think?) was never going out of business.

Axe is probably what us Aussies know as “Lynx” – which appears to have replaced Brut 33 as the marker of either the teenaged try-hard, or the family man who chooses to indulge his kids by wearing the stuff they buy him for father’s day.

By: slythwolf

slythwolf — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:54:36 +0000

Also, does anyone else find it just categorically creepy that a product advertised as a way to get chicks is called “Axe”?

By: slythwolf

slythwolf — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:53:12 +0000

Axe–propping up the rape culture since 1983!

(Sadly, I actually checked Wikipedia for that date–and guess what, everyone reminded of Impulse? Same company!)

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:58:32 +0000

Oh right – the Axe advertisements. Yes, THOSE are quite horrible. You spray it on yourself and a horde of almost-naked, oily bikini babes runs towards you from all over the world? Really? You turn into chocolate and girls eat you up? Seriously…

By: Naamah Darling

Naamah Darling — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:11:29 +0000

A result like that would definitely surprise me cunt.

By: Ishtar

Ishtar — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:30:32 +0000

@JPlum

Impulse – you bring back memories. :-) I thought that scent was only ubiquitous here in South Africa at that time.

Another scent I remember from childhood is Brut. It seemed like for a while back in the late 70s / early 80s every second man bathed in Brut.