Comments on: What is the point of an investigations (sic) like this?

By: SayUncle »

SayUncle » — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:38:32 +0000

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By: SayUncle » Sweeps

SayUncle » Sweeps — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:39:12 +0000

[...] Good, I hope so. Because last year’s sweeps month contained some hard-hitting investigation of bootie juice. [...]

By: SayUncle » Always Amusing

SayUncle » Always Amusing — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:33:54 +0000

[...] It’s always funny to peruse 6 Investigates section of WATE to see what they’re trying to scare people with these days. You may recall the time when their crack team of investigative journalists went to hotels in Knoxville and used a black light look for streaks and booty juice on the sheets. And, shock, the black light showed some substances. None of which were actually booty juice and the results were declared to be inconclusive. We here at SayUncle discovered that detergent shows up quite well under a black light and the only thing local hotels were likely guilty of was washing bedding. [...]

By: CharlesH

CharlesH — Sat, 21 May 2005 14:22:10 +0000

White fabrics mostly turn dingy yellow with age; it’s not dirt on them, it’s that the fibers actually change color as they get old. Combining the yellow fabric with a florescent blue dye (which absorbs UV and reemits it as blue light) makes it look white under normal light. That’s why they put the dye in.
With bright UV and dim visible light, you can’t see the yellow so it just looks blue.

By: countertop

countertop — Sat, 21 May 2005 03:24:52 +0000

I hope Atsko puts more care into its products than it does into its advertising.

I’ve never seen so many typos in advertising copy before. Sure, I am as bad as they get when it comes to typos on my blog, but then, I ain’t trying to sell anything and no one knows who I really am. Everything that goes out at work is perfect.

Atko’s copy was painful to read there were so many typos and misspellings.

By: Addison

Addison — Sat, 21 May 2005 00:28:11 +0000

It’s usually the Titanium Dioxide (what makes the whites white and brights bright) that REALLY shows up under a black light. Which is in almost all the normal laundry detergents.

Charlie’s Soap, Sport Wash don’t – which is why things look “dingy” when you wash with them for a while. They’re not really, but you’re not getting that edge-of-the-UV that Ti02 gives you.

http://www.atsko.com/dontstandoutinthewoods.html

By: markm

markm — Fri, 20 May 2005 15:58:11 +0000

Now I understand what they meant by “whiter than white.” Phosporescent laundry detergent. (And countertop is correct; most laundry detergents contain phosporus, and there’s a reason that element shares a root word with “phosporescent”.)

By: hellbent

hellbent — Fri, 20 May 2005 15:44:39 +0000

Thanks for some welcome comic relief.

By: Les Jones

Les Jones — Fri, 20 May 2005 15:07:16 +0000

I think the CSI comment nailed it.

After scientifically putting the bootie juice under the big glowing scientific freak light, they displayed the results on the scientific gigantic big screen TV, and the pasty lab scientist guy said he’d run an FBI search to see if he could scientifically do a match for cooter prints.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Fri, 20 May 2005 15:03:40 +0000

Drake, you should be smacked for that one.

By: Drake

Drake — Fri, 20 May 2005 15:02:02 +0000

So I guess this means the local hotels are “getting the Led out?”

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

By: countertop

countertop — Fri, 20 May 2005 14:52:53 +0000

Laundry detergent is notorious for glowing under a black light. I think it is the phosphurous in it, but next time you have access to a black light and are wearing, say, blue jeans go into a dark room and shine the black light on them and see all the weird streaks glowing. Now, it is true that some of those streaks could be bootie juice, but assuming the jeans are otherwise clean chances are its simply laundry detergent.

Of course, that response would pretty much doom the entertainment value of the dumb MTV show and might be a bit inconvenient in Ms. Smith’s continuing efforts to be a real reporter.