{"id":1696,"date":"2001-11-23T09:40:30","date_gmt":"2001-11-23T14:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2001-11-23T09:40:30","modified_gmt":"2001-11-23T14:40:30","slug":"in_touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/23\/in_touch.html","title":{"rendered":"In touch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get in touch with yourself … not<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The thought of doing something as icky and gross as, ah, wiping yourself after you, er, do your Number 2 kind of business, is, like, totally gross and icky and everything? Then try the Bottom Buddy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(I see a huge marketing error here. They really ought to be marketing this to Dads who have to change their Little Darlings’ diapers. Not that I would use one, mind you, but that would help get past one of the real Dad-gets-the-willies things that I think most new fathers deal with.)<\/p>\n

UPDATE: On the other hand, I’m not sure I’d wax this lyrical<\/a> about the whole diaper-changing thing.<\/p>\n

(Via Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get in touch with yourself … not The thought of doing something as icky and gross as, ah, wiping yourself after you, er, do your Number 2 kind of business,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1372,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/17\/make_your_reser.html","url_meta":{"origin":1696,"position":0},"title":"Make your reservations today!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Jan-02 7:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"Zagats is a customer-survey-based restaurant guide printed in most cities. 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