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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."
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
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.
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.