Handkerchief Report

[marcusmarcusrc]

arcanology, chenoameg, and I all use handkerchiefs. justom does not. Therefore not all graduates of our high school use handkerchiefs. But do _only_ graduates of our high school use handkerchiefs? This I ask of the livejournal community...

(Hmm. I realize now that justom did not attend our middle school. Perhaps this is the key!)

ps. More random Spanish notes: Handkerchief in Spanish is "pañuelo". Diapers are "pañales". Bedroom slippers, on the other hand, are "pantuflos".

pps. If one doesn't remember the word "pañales", but one desperately needs some, store owners on random streets in Mexico City will, in fact, understand the poor gringo who says "calzoncillos para bebes". And this ends, hopefully, not only random Spanish reports of the night, but livejournal posting from me in general, as I am going to bed!

Comments

[76trombones.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking I should switch, but I haven't. And in any case, I blame y'all's influence.

[tanatoes.livejournal.com]

I can confirm that myself and do not use handkerchiefs. So there are two more graduates who do not. And both of us attended middle school there as well. I don't know about the Raccoon (third part of our troika) but I will ask him next time we communicate.

[veryhappykayla.livejournal.com]

You'll find your conterexample in my dad, who(m?) I'm pretty sure didn't go to your high school (unless there's a whole lot he's not telling me). He finds it unfortunate that handkerchief usage does not seem to be an inherited trait in our family, but is holding out that it might just be recessive.

[shumashi.livejournal.com]

See, I actually think that handkerchiefs, while classy, are inferior technology to disposable kleenex. Because, eww.

chenoameg once proposed a correlation between handkerchief use and wearing glasses, claiming that handkerchiefs were better for wiping glasses than kleenex.

[miraclaire.livejournal.com]

I know quite a few people who went to Milton Academy for middle and high school, none of whom, to the best of my knowledge, use handkerchiefs. A girl in one of my classes at Simmons does though (she went to Sharon High School).

Handkercheifs, etc.

[desireearmfeldt]

I was loaned handkercheifs by two seperate men at U of Chicago, netiher of whom went to school with you as far as I know.

Slippers are also Pantoufles in French.

When I was 12, I went to France with my family for the first time. While puttering down a canal on a little barge/houseboat thing, I found myself in need of feminine hygiene products. This led to much merriment in the bar we wandered into, attempting to find out where to purchase such a thing, because who knows how to say *that* in a foreign language? (The people in the bar, according to my dad, were on to what was going on, but teased us by offering us paper napkins. I find this an amusing tale in retrospect, but it was Not Funny at the time. :) )

[dcltdw]

I have one floating around somewhere, and I've even carried it on occassion. I believe the occassion tends to be When I'm Extremely Overdressed And Not Going Dancing.

Went to school in L.A.

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

My father-in-law, who most certainly did not go to your high school, uses handkerchiefs. And frankly, when he pulls it out to wipe one of my kids' faces with it, I get a little grossed out, thinking, "who knows where that thing has been?" Me? I use tissues.

[ilhander.livejournal.com]

I went to high school in NJ, and I use handkerchiefs, just not on my nose, since it rarely needs that kind of, um...support.

[kelkyag]

I usually have a bandana in my bag, for use as handkerchief-or-whatever. It is replaced by a clean one at the first reasonable opportunity after being used.

The goof uses real handkerchiefs, often to clean his glasses. He has lots of them -- I don't think I've ever caught him without a clean one.

I don't think either of us went to your high school. :)