Comments on: Oprah can kiss my ass

By: SayUncle » It happened to me

SayUncle » It happened to me — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:11:50 +0000

[...] Nearly a month ago, I got an email from a reporter named Dru Sefton. She was wanting to do a story on washing pillows and, in her research, she found this post (read it, it’s funny) I had written that was sort of related to the subject. She inquired about how long I had the pillow, and I said probably about thirty years as I’d had it since I was a wee lad. She asked me the following questions and I gave my answers (reprinted for your amusement): Does reading that research give you pause about sleeping on your favorite pillow for as long as you did? [...]

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:48:43 +0000

The cat seems to have forgotten his lesson.

By: AndyJ

AndyJ — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:13:16 +0000

My sincerest sympathy. My wife finally threw away my favorite pillow, don’t even know how long I have had it, but before throwing it away, my wife cut it open and showed me that all of the feathers had turned to powder. I haven’t found a pillow yet to replace it.

By: cube

cube — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 22:38:38 +0000

i bet that cat learned his lesson, or is it still trying to get into the wash?

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 20:38:50 +0000

For similar reasons, I wound up washing my favorite pillow, which I have had for years. The pillow came to no harm, but because tgirsch doesn’t do laundry often, it never occurred to him to execute the “make sure the cat isn’t in the wash machine” step more than once. I checked before I put the pillow in, and even looked over and saw the cat across the room, then turned back to the machine, put the detergent in, closed the door, and started the machine. I then promptly went and took a shower.

Apparently, the time it takes to put detergent in a front-loading washer is more than enough time for a cat to sneak in there. Fortunately, since it was my favorite down pillow and I didn’t want to risk ruining it, I had the machine on the ultra-delicate cycle, which just gently rocks back and forth with cold water.

After my shower, a good ten minutes later, I heard some sick meowing, and saw a soaking wet cat staring at me through the door of the machine, all the while struggling to remain upright against the rocking of the machine.

Amazingly, the cat was none the worse for wear, and was indeed Tide fresh(tm). He’s just lucky I found him before the spin cycle kicked in.

By: cube

cube — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:11:03 +0000

wow….man i feel sorry for you.

though you might do better off being forced to emotionally sepearte from your pillow.

next thing you know oprah is doing a gun show (i hope you wife does not clean those in the washing machine).

By: Heartless Libertarian

Heartless Libertarian — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:04:29 +0000

If you want to go to LA-LA Land to strangle Oprah, you’re going to have a ways to walk. I’m pretty sure her show originates in Chicago.

By: Jeff Blogworthy.com

Jeff Blogworthy.com — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 16:24:21 +0000

SayUncle discusses ‘Oprah induced paranoia’
Oprah induced paranoia caused major disruption to at least one household.