Comments | lemur_man: A mystery of the ages deciphered

lemur_man

A mystery of the ages deciphered

Jan 27, 2009 16:26

lemur_boy explains the care symbols on the label of his towel:

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penguin2 January 28 2009, 00:16:08 UTC

Your excellent junior primate has more sense than the clothing symbolmakers. Frakked if I can remember whether the triangle is supposed to indicate dry-cleaning or tumble-drying o_O

This also reminds me of the time my very young niece told me she'd seen 'a group of nothings' crossing the road. All hail the cleverly deduced mistakes of clever younglings!

lemur_man January 28 2009, 19:45:47 UTC

The triangle represents bleach. You know, because, umm ...

Anyway.

'A group of nothings'? As in a bunch of nobodies?

penguin2 January 29 2009, 01:28:14 UTC

Ah. Bleach. Blimey, does anyone still use that?!

It's a homophone. She was barely six at the time, and although she knew that 'nothing' is 'none', she didn't know there were two different spellings of the latter :-)

monkey_chakra January 28 2009, 00:56:44 UTC

That's amazing. Hehe!

innoxia January 28 2009, 01:34:43 UTC

and here i thought it meant "do not fold into a triangle shape".

don't i feel silly!

a_silence_song January 28 2009, 13:49:35 UTC

hahahaaaa cute!

smart kid! lynsage January 28 2009, 15:30:25 UTC

i have never had any idea what that thing was!

i just looked it up. apparently the triangle means "chlorine bleach" and the x means "do not". how the f we are supposed to know a TRIANGLE is a bleach bottle, i haven't a clue.

i like o's explanation better.