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The Science of The Moist Towelette
BoomZilla writes "Just when you thought that
things couldn't get any stranger, may I present for you delectation the enchantment
of the Modern Moist Towelette
Collection. Pictures, interactive demos (I kid you not) and the ever-popular
MMTC theme song are presented in their resplendent glory. I was particularly
excited to learn that Edvard Munch's The Scream was not, in fact, a
representation of stress, but rather a depiction of a gentleman who has soiled
his hands and is using an early form of moist towelette to clean himself.
Decide for yourself."
Everyone knows that moist towelettes are the true path to world peace and prosperity. Just ask Scott Grantham and Greg Gerou.
I think Douglas Adams' (RIP) words regarding "lemon soaked paper napkins" - or lack thereof, on the derelict spaceship close to the 13 mile high statue of Arthur Dent throwing the nutrimatic cup is justification enough for collecting these things. Remember - you always need to know where your (moist) towel(ette) is!
Rich people are eccentric. Poor people are strange. Me, I'd be happy with odd.
This is really not that strange. Back in elementary school, (I'm in college now) the school used to have a sealed plastic bag that contained a napkin, a spork, a knife, and a wet nap. Of course, my friends and I never used the wet naps and instead collected them. Throughout the year, I collected quite a variety of them and just a few years ago, I was cleaning out some stuff and a found a box of wet naps. Of course, they were all dried up.
:)
This just shows what we'll collect. Then again, I wouldn't collect wet naps now.
David
...must be a slow news day.
The Online Museum
Vintage Moist Towelette
The Moist Towlettel page
I don't see any from Milliways
One of the most precious recources for any geek is a moist towelette that can be substituted for that unnecessary showering...
as long as you've got a steady supply, no need to leave the keyboard.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
I hate the moist towelette. It's terrible on a newborn's skin. The hospital recommended just cotton towlettes. The non-moist kind, and even gave us a supply that barely lasted a week.
See, you wet them from this thing called a faucet. That way, there's nothing added that will adversely effect baby.
When we ran out, I tried to find some at the store, but all they had were moist towelettes. Rows and rows of them. Eventually we tried them, making sure we picked the water only type.
No good. Baby's skin was getting red. So we switched to cotton balls (now that's fun, let me tell you).
Now he's six weeks old, and we've been using the moist towelettes again with no adverse side effects. But why can't I find dry towlettes at the store? Why call them moist when that's the only kind they sell?
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
I just can't stop playing it! It is just so exciting to be able to match up all of those wonderful towelletes that I recognize! I think these Moist Towellete collectors are on to something. They really have found a special art.
I remember having to clean the head of my penis with a moist towelette before an STD test.
NOT KIDDING!
It's up to 69663 at the moment - lucky it's AOL we're slashdotting :-)
I'm not Seth.
not Slashdot.org
Death to the moist towelette infindels.
Hows your Friday night going...
Way, Truth, and Life!
This page has clearly been created by a solitary person who wants to create the impression that there are indeed many Moist Towelette collectors out there by pretending that there is some kind of Moist Towelette community.
A quick look at his Q & A indicates that there are in fact only two questions, and both are probably faked by him.
My immediate suggestion therefore is to all swiftly contact this gentleman and enthuse on our sudden interest in moist towelettes. His faith in the Internet as a medium for populating his ideas will be boosted 2000 fold, at least until AOL starts charging for the bandwidth.
This should probably not be on slashdot, it should be on somethingawful.com. If slashdot were to cover every crackpot website out there there'd be no space for any real news. If there was any evidence of a community of moist towelette collectors at this site, it'd be news. But since it's clearly just one poor sod on his own and maybe a handful of friends laughing behind his back, it really doesnt qualify as news and is on par with "Exceedingly dull person found on Internet" which wouldnt be much of a surprise.
But I'm beeing a bit of a killjoy here, the song was at least amusing, and wow does it beat the hell out of the OpenBSD songs!...
On a related note, TRIPOD SUCKS!
Or
The fact that a good majority of those towelettes look familiar to me.
Prediction: someone corrects your use of "begging the question" before this thread ends.
What's really freakin' funny is how few of the Slashdot posse are willing to comment.
I guess familiarity breeds contempt.
That will happen in the diaper area now and then no matter whether you use dry or wet wipes.
My daughter's pediatrician prefers wet wipes because, in general, they do a better job of cleaning fecal matter (the cause of diaper rash) than dry tissues. However, you will want to have both on hand at all times, including plenty of both light (kleenex) and dry (paper towel) dry wipes. Ideally, you would use cotton napkins and warm water each time, but that just doesn't turn out to be practical.
With a boy, it's a little easier to clean (no crevice to require a bath when unable to wipe it all out clean with certainty -- ewww yuck) so I suppose it makes less difference. But for those times when you have to clean up a dump away from home, you will be glad that you kept your diaper bag stocked with both wet wipes, dry tissue, and paper towels. Also get plenty of those blue changing pads from your hospital's maternity shop.
Poor guy....something as innocuous as moist towelettes, and he's about to get slashdotted..oh well. There's no helping that now.
I was in Afghanistan, and just rotated out of Iraq (going back soon) and we used moist towelettes as our showers.
Even with no hair on your head, these things DO NOT come close to a good shower. Plus, just to get the Iraqi dust off your face, you need 3 of these!
Your humor is so high-brow, only elite people like yourself could *possibly* hope to say something even remotely as funny. Your clever use of a quote from South Park, without attributing it, marks you as a true master of comedy.
I can only long to be like you. If I were a woman, I would want to bear your children.
I'm a lawyer, but not yours. I wouldn't represent someone who thinks taking legal advice from Slashdot is a good idea.
From the website:
...
Verse 1:
You're Soft
You're Wet
You Smell So Good...
Chorus:
I Love You Moist Towelettes
I Love You Moist Towelettes
I Love You Moist Towelettes
Verse 2:
You're Pretty
The Way They Dress You Up
Wanna Take You Home
Open You Up
(Chorus)
Outro:
Can't Wait To Get My Hands On You
Can't Wait To Rub My Hands On You
Can't Wait To Get My Hands On You
Tear Open, Unfold, and Use
You know, if you replace "moist towlette" with someone's name, you have a potential serial rapist on your hands.
This is scary.
Yup...
wo xi huan chi ni de da lan jiao. wo ye xi huan chi ni de da pian. wo zhen de ai ni. jia gei wo ba!!
Wow! I have seen this before and have actually discussed this Web site in an academic setting! A lecturer at the University of Washington Information School showed this moist towelette site to us in class a while back. We tried to decide whether it was a collection or a catalog.
If The Scream is a depiction of stress, I would like to see how angst looks like!
Okay, I realize some days are just very slow news days, but this is ridiculous. Perhaps instead of posting stories on people's unoriginal eccentricities, we could revisit cool software projects that maybe haven't been mentioned in a while? Like.. how's Plex86 doing? OSkit? That kind of thing. Or just borrow news headlines from newsforge, or osnews? Really, if everyone who had a witty little site devoted to something stupid that they thought was clever got their 15 minutes of fame, i wouldn't live long enough to hear about all of them. Same goes for pictures of gnomes.
A moisty-nap always comes in handy when you're eating BBQ chicken.
Quality or Quantity, don't tell me they're the same.
kitchen towels that don't disintegrate when they're wet - work a treat.
How about three ?
Je t'aime Stéphanie
/.'ed already :|
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
It got slashdotted...
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Damn AOL
Not standard otc stuff, it is made to kill bacteria on the surface so the sample is unadultrated.
I couldn't let this opportunity go to share this link - 'The moist towelette theory' over at e2...
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http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=640
again a story that gets posted while the one about the GCI characters in the Two Towers imbued with AI goes begging...
And the moist towelettes are a godsend to cyclists - they take the place of a water bottle in my kit bag.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
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== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
Am I the only one to first read this as MAOist?
Google Cache:
Towelette Gallery
Towelette Q&A
Towelette Awards
Towelette Contacts
Has this replaced the single sock method?
..may I present for you delectation the enchantment..
not only was 'you' misspelled, it took me a minute just to be able to say that damn sentence and figure out what it meant.
I told my wife, once we got these, now I'll be able to stretch out a pair of skivvies through the entire week (Given I turn them inside out on hump day).
The underwear Gnomes will lose their target market!
Step 1. Collect Underwear
Step 2. ?
Step 3. Bankruptcy!!!
Ha HA. Your target market now has cleaned up its act. They actually eat off their own butts they are so clean...
Now that's Justice.
http://www.artkolective.com/moist-towelette/index. htm
It lives up to it's name: http://www.sanspoint.com
I know, this is incredibly pedantic... but AOL actually misspelled "bandwith". And here I thought the guy above was just sloppy in pasting it. :P
Hey thank you very much man. It is really nice to hear that. I for one, don't really get bothered by the protesting all that much, I just ask them to remember who is protecting that right for them to say what they want.
But for other soldiers, especially some of my younger guys, seeing the news on CNN or wherever of all these protesters, especially the ones in the USA really doesn't help raise their spirits. We get sat TV when were in base camps and on ships at sea, and all that "negative" response to the war made it tough for alot of us. Especially when we were waiting to go in. (once were in there, we don't have CNN and really only have time to focus on our job, so that makes it better)
Anyway, thank you very much. I just wish the guys over there right now could be hearing more stuff like this.
1Lt Trojan, 3d Platoon, 1st FR Company, 15th MEU
Fail!
DO NOT EAT!
-calyxa
Decay! Decay! Decay! -Helium
We bought a couple dozen cheap "terry-cloth" wash cloths. When it is time to wash my baby's bum, we soak it in warm/hot water and clean him off. Then it goes in the diaper pail with the soiled diaper to be washed, dried and used again.
Works really well.
Also in the vein of ridiculously oversized consumer products, how about a "house freshener." It would be like those vile little tree-shaped car fresheners, except roughly one meter tall. You'd hang it from your ceiling and fill your house with noxious faux-pine fumes.
*I'm paraphrasing the instructions of an actual moist towelette ("tear open package, remove towelette, and use").
...don't forget to bring an extra towel(ette).
--- I'm going to get a score of -1 for this post because the mods are fuckers.
you can always order your moist nap needs at MOISTNAP.COM
-- troutsoup.com