Media F*ckup: "Japanese" 6-day underwear

[Taro Toporific]

Brief updates
Orlando Weekly ---NEWS of the WEIRD (DEC 12, 2002)
News of the Weird reported in 1988 on the Japanese inventors---expo at which was introduced "six-day" underwear -- a cotton panel with an elastic band and three leg holes, so that the wearer could rotate one leg hole per day and then turn the garment over and go for three more days.
In February 1998, two Metairie, La., women obtained a patent for pantyhose with three legs so that the spare can be used when a run develops.

Problem?
Well.... in a book by Ted Nancy,"Letters from a Nut" he describes writing prank letters to people about lots of things, including how he is the genius inventor of "Six Day Underwear."

This week, ABC News, and the Orlando Weekly got suckered into this old urban legend of "Japanese" weirdness.

new fashion has 3 leg holes!
"You rotate the underwear 120 degrees every morning, then, after three days, you turn them inside out and repeat the process."
- - from The Weekly World News, circa April 2000

[Marvin Feltcher]

Without wanting to piss too much in my own pocket (and deepest apologies to bikkle), check out this story for the real poop on Japan's six-day underwear.

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/0106/010630panties.html

[Taro Toporific]

check out this story for the real poop on Japan's six-day underwear.
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/0106/010630panties.html

WE'RE NOT WORTHY! WE'RE NOT WORTHY!



That blast-from-the-past was one of your best. Pleeeeeeeese Marvin-sama, we want more like that.

In the meantime, check out...
The German influence on Christmas The Independent--

In Germany, the 12 Nights -- the period from Christmas to Three Kings Day -- was a time when one had to be especially careful of evil spirits....it was bad luck to take a bath or change underwear during that period.

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Continuously Fresh Underwear
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"To-Do" list for the anal.