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October 28, 2013

At Cross Purposes

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Maine Hunting Sock | LLBean As stated in the 1941 LLBean catalog, "The red top is protection against accidental shooting and the black stripe below makes it unusually attractive."

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 28, 2013 11:23 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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I've always been more prone to stepping on my own wang than shooting myself in the foot.

Posted by: BillH at October 28, 2013 2:39 PM

Your legs must be awful short, Bill, haw haw.

These socks are over-priced and don't do jack shit for shooting or attracting anything. It is a clever observation, the seeming contradiction of the text, but back in those days they didn't talk so very good. Most ad copy writers, the ones that didn't get a job at Hallmark, went on to become commenters on blog sites. Huh? Me?

This lifted off the pages of The Washington Rebel some months ago, before it imploded. The sophistry and polemical discussion on that blog site reached critical mass:

"I doubt the efficacy of teaching, though it's noble indeed to attempt it. Witness the enormous learning, wit, and insight of so many wonderful bloggers whose voices can now be heard. Still, as entertaining as their efforts are, it seems to me that the effect of their work in defeating the liberal, grifter enemy is marginal." ~ Colonel B. Bunny

Posted by: chasmatic at October 29, 2013 7:22 AM

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