Close to Home by John McPherson for September 17, 2009

Oh! At first I thought she was talking about her “shower” shoes

Heck, even I’m grossed out….

That news may ruin my weekend plans……….

i though she was talking about shower shoes too until she said the sparkly ones

ewwwww

The worse part is that she can’t find them because Dan is wearing them.

flipflops!

I’ve seen sparkly flipflops. My guess is she means flipflops, but the boys have a different item in mind.

they need to stop calling flipflops thongs! LOL! That is indeed what she meant! I was horrified at first myself when I thought it was the other…um… item!! :-D

Maybe she speaks with a lisp and owns some fancy kitchen utensils.

GMWAS.

cholldekkgher stenst

i have heard thongs called butt floss

Excuse me, I think I’ll go toss my cookies now.

Jazzlily, I concur. When I was growing up in the 1960’s, rubber sandals were called “Thongs”. It wasn’t until the late 1970’s that I heard them referred to as “Flip Flops”. They were probably called Flip Flops because some kids didn’t know their name and so called them by the sound they make. Real Flip Flops are the hypocrites in political office - promise one thing and do the opposite. “…I’ll fix the economy buy spending every last penny the taxpayers have, make sure that NON-taxpayers benefit from it and then borrow TRILLIONS from China so that we’ve mortgaged the future of 4 generations of Americans to a Communist regime…”.

The clothing article now called a “Thong” was called “a piece of string” in the 1960’s. (Gosh, I make myself sound old!!) Bald 716 - I would have to agree with that.