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if one wanted to reuse an item that had inadvertently been misfiled in the laundry basket, you threw it at the wall. If it stuck to the wall, you tried another item. Trousers that stood up by themselves were probably past their best, but very convenient.Ewww-wwww...please, I just finished eating. I guess all your friends learned to stand upwind...  Speaking of eating, and throwing things against a wall-- a friend and I went to a seafood place for lunch the other day, and I asked for some of that red shrimp cocktail sauce. It was brought in one of those little plastic containers with lids. It had obviously been stored on its side, because half the container was empty. When I took the lid off and set the container on its bottom, the "sauce"
stayed put--with a vertical wall at the halfway point. I ate my fish sauceless. 
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If it stuck to the wall, you tried another item. Trousers that stood up by themselves were probably past their best, but very convenient.Ah, those wonderful, never-to-be-forgotten and hopefully-never-to-be-repeated students days!
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I'm not sure skanky would go over very well here when refering to laundry. Skanky usually refers to someone who is not too picky about who they sleep with and who doesn`t really wash very well after having slept with a slew of people.
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Hi, bel! You said: I'm not sure skanky would go over very well here when refering to laundry. Skanky usually refers to someone who is not too picky about who they sleep with and who doesn`t really wash very well after having slept with a slew of people.It can have similar connotations here, but when used to refer to clothing it's the condition of the garments that's under discussion, not the circumstances of their removal ...
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Well, I tried to keep this centered on the *clean* aspect of the question (see previous post) but around here it is obviously a losing battle.
Well, if you can't lick 'em -- join 'em!
Has anyone else noticed that the threads with "not *clean*" and "Name You Sex" titles have received a LOT of hits!
See what I mean?
Leaving, now, to ponder naughty titles for innocuous threads
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Our NH seagulless has it: Leaving, now, to ponder naughty titles for innocuous threads.Okay Wow, former editress-in-chief, you've had your five minutes. You used to do ambiguous headlines with double entendre for a living. Let's see the professional output! 
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you've had your five minutes. You used to do ambiguous headlines with double entendre for a living. Let's see the professional output!
It was a long while ago Cap! But : one feature on a newly formed cricket club in the Seacoast, which was having trouble finding people who could play the game,I headlined :
Finding players a sticky wicket for new cricket league.
If I recall any others I'll let you know.
One of the more famous ones was in Foster's Daily Democrat (Dover, N.H.) when a manned space capsule landed within several hundred yards of the Naval ship on retrieval duty:
Navy misses snatch by a hair
Gutter Police : don't yell at ME, I'm just quoting a real headline!
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But : one feature on a newly formed cricket club in the Seacoast, which was having trouble finding people who could play the game,I headlined :
Finding players a sticky wicket for new cricket league.Careful, wow, you used the "cr.." word, twice - expect to get harrumphed!
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Fuhgeddaboutit, Max. Our wow is like unto Cæsar's wife: above reproach. (besides, all she did was quote some good headlines, not go into a lengthy dissertation on rules and teams. Or clubs. Or whatever) Harrumphingly® yours, etc etc, I remain, AnnaS  PS How about them Braves??
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like unto Cæsar's wife: above reproach.
Faint praise, since Cæsar's wife was not above reproach, so he divorced her.
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