Stain Ninja

[reebar]

I'm mostly a forensic psych guy rather than a forensic physical scientist, per se, but I've spent a big chunk of my adult life involved with forensic science and, as a result, I'm a reasonably good seat-of-the-pants chemist. A couple of weeks ago, Thing 2 was in despair because his favorite t-shirt had a set-in stain. I fooled around with it and

Comments

[bunny42]

Thing?? You call him Thing? No wonder he's short on compliments. Or, is that sort of why you call him Thing?

Whatever. Stain Ninja is cool! I have a buddy who styles himself the resident laundry bitch. Laundry Ninja would be way better.

[reebar]

I don't _call_ him Thing 2. I _refer_ to him as Thing 2. It's from Cat in the Hat. I refer to my kids as Thing 1 and Thing 2 online because they're twins and (because of the nature of my work) I think it's best not to use their names in public forums.

[bunny42]

Point taken. How old are they? I'm assuming he doesn't read your LJ...

[dwer]

but then we would KNOW you're a Ninja and a Ninja never reveals that he's a Ninja unless he's not a Ninja, and how can you be a Ninja if you reveal that you're not a Ninja????

[reebar]

I guess I'm not a ninja because a true ninja's head probably wouldn't spin like mine is doing after reading that sentence.

[felisdemens]

This is a good comment and you should feel good about yourself.

[dwer]

My only worry is that if he's such a good ninja that he wants us to think he's not a ninja in which case he would say he was a ninja because it's a real ninja move to say he's a ninja so we think he's not a ninja even though he's a ninja!

[reebar]

Thanks felis. Bunny, they're 14. Same as dwer.