PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER...
...for the Spontaneously Combusting Teatowels.
(Thanks to Jeff Meyerson)
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This isn't funny, Dave. tea towels take thousnds of lives every year. They are second only to doo-rags in US deaths by fabric.
THIS is funny.
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Posted by: cosanostradamus | November 28, 2008 at 08:36 AM
I'd heard Linens'n'Things was having a fire sale....
Posted by: Larry Craig | November 28, 2008 at 08:46 AM
Yes, life's been kinda dull since I left the Senate.
Posted by: Larry Craig | November 28, 2008 at 08:47 AM
*scratches towel warmer off Christmas list*
Posted by: eilbeback | November 28, 2008 at 08:55 AM
Smokey says: "Don't put that laundry away yet!"
Just throw it in this handy plastic basket and leave it sitting on the floor for a week or two. It's a safety thing.
Posted by: Betsy | November 28, 2008 at 09:11 AM
What's so funny about teat owels? Are they endangered?
Posted by: Margaritaville | November 28, 2008 at 10:09 AM
I used to use tea towels all the time to start fires when I went camping.
Posted by: Mike | November 28, 2008 at 10:13 AM
*Pictures wild-eyed radicals tossing bundles of fresh-from-the-dryer teatowels into government building lobbies*
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | November 28, 2008 at 10:23 AM
"*Pictures wild-eyed radicals tossing bundles of fresh-from-the-dryer teatowels into government building lobbies*"
Don't forget the Downy!
Posted by: pogo | November 28, 2008 at 10:26 AM
pogo - FORGET the Downy - we want to give those government puppets horrendous static cling!!
(Yes, we BAD!)
Posted by: Punkin | November 28, 2008 at 10:35 AM
I, like m'ville, misread that.
Posted by: CJrun | November 28, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Australia is such a nanny society I wouldn't be surprised if you'd need to get a tea towel license
Posted by: Mot the Hoople | November 28, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Right, Fearless Leader Punkin!
We Bad! We Bad!
Posted by: pogo | November 28, 2008 at 11:11 AM
Call me old-fashioned, but I still prefer Molotov cocktails. They just pack more of a punch.
Ah Vyacheslav, you were a horrible, horrible, disgusting, murderous person, but you had great taste in drinks.
Posted by: Elon Weintraub | November 28, 2008 at 11:29 AM
I love watching piles of bark dust ignite -- sort of the same principle. My buddy who had a machine shop had a lot of religion about used oil rags only going in fire safe disposal areas.
He was getting older, but he moved very quickly one time when I pointed to one of the cans and said "Mind if I smoke?" as ignition was just starting. I discovered that fire extinguishers are kind of heavy.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | November 28, 2008 at 11:38 AM
When they make possession of smouldering tea towels criminal, only criminals will have smouldering tea towels.
Posted by: SW | November 28, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Same with hay. Bale it while it's still damp and it will rot, eventually creating enough heat to flambe your barn.
Is our bloggers learnin'?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | November 28, 2008 at 12:39 PM
"MFS spokesman Greg Staple said 40 fire fighters took about 30 minutes to bring the fire under control."
If it takes 40 firefighters 30 minutes to bring 1 teatowel fire under control, how many skunks does it take to scare 1 wimpy mailman with 100 pieces of undelivered mail to knock off 2 hours early?
Posted by: SW | November 28, 2008 at 01:05 PM
Teatowels
Teatowels who need
Teatowels...
Posted by: SW | November 28, 2008 at 01:09 PM
Allah have to decline that offer. Sorry.
Posted by: Danny | November 28, 2008 at 01:41 PM
Muhammed - are you SERIOUS? Woof?
Posted by: whiteschnauzer | November 28, 2008 at 02:04 PM
PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER...
...for the Spontaneously Combusting Muhammed SPAM shirts.
Ick.
And snork @ SW for 'teatowels who need teatowels.' That's hot.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | November 28, 2008 at 02:26 PM
Not surprised. I used to live in an apartment complex where the communal driers heated way too much. Actually had some sheets start smoldering when I left them in the laundry basket afterwards.
Posted by: Richard the Weasel-Hearted | November 28, 2008 at 02:53 PM
Didn't that happen to Michael Jackson once?? Course I don't think tea towels were involved, possibly silicone. Or lightning.
Posted by: Siouxie | November 28, 2008 at 03:57 PM
Sioux - it was sparks from the sequins on his glove setting his hairspray on fire. That's why he only wore one - the other one went up in flames. That would also explain his lack of body hair in other places.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | November 28, 2008 at 04:39 PM
See what happens when you stack them instead of tea-bagging them?
Posted by: Boy George | November 28, 2008 at 09:58 PM
Your Honor, I move that Annie's statement be stricken from the record as hearsay...or does she claim firsthand knowledge???
*Court takes a fifteen minute recess for mass brain-bleaching*
Posted by: Betsy | November 29, 2008 at 12:15 AM
Margaritaville,
I too was imagininge whole flocks of hooters with hooters, burning, looting and pillaging.
Posted by: Margaritaville | November 29, 2008 at 01:23 PM
those would be fun at christmas, to watch your cute little santa towels go poof.
Posted by: queensbee | November 29, 2008 at 02:39 PM