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I emphasize Jeff Hess at Have Coffee Will Write and The Writing on the Wal because this blog stuff sometimes happens alone, sometimes happens in a swarm and sometimes happens because you’re reading and at your computer at the right time, and not because of any other effort you’ve made (and then there are times when you pick up the phone to get more information etc.- what I call ‘Roots News – plenty of examples around – I think I actually broke this one today).
Anyway – so – go to Jeff to see his catch of the Fox News report that:
Suggestive pink Santa panties targeting young girls are being removed from Wal-Mart stores after parents objected to the offensive undergarments.
The panties, which were sold in the juniors department, seemed to suggest that girls don’t need money, they just need a sugar daddy — in this case Santa Claus.
The hipster briefs — carrying the slogan “Who needs credit cards …” on the front and “When you have Santa” on the derriere — caused an uproar among parents, who called for the $2.96 drawers to be pulled off the racks.
“We have directed our stores to remove this merchandise from our shelves,” Linda Brown Blakely, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart, told FOXNews.com Wednesday.
Now, I still think all these questions from my original post about the panties should be answered. And I give kudos to Fox for naming Feministing as the place where it all started, as far as letting people know what Wal-Mart, the Liberty-Counsel sanctioned “nice” place to shop because they use the word “Christmas” rather than “holiday” had been selling these items where they were.
In the meantime, anyone think that the panties will show up in impoverished areas of other continents where kids and adults can’t read?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:10 pm December 13th, 2007 in Blogging, Business, Culture, Economy, Marketing, Media, Ohio, Parenting, Religion, Social Issues, Women
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Shalom Jill,
Actually, my co-blogger Jonathan caught it on The Writing On the Wal. But its all good.
By the way, are we feeling extra centered today?
B’shalom,
Jeff
p.s. and don’t you think its time to turn your blog clog back to standard time?
? on the blog clock – didn’t I get it right? I fixed it I thought! Do you mean on the comments?
You know I’m really an imposter – I don’t know WHAT THE HELL I’m doing.