The revolution will not be shoes (Blondie, 18 September)
Joseph Nebus
Crocs are being worn to `push the buttons' of anyone in authority?
Really?
Crocs are being worn after 2007?
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> Crocs are being worn to `push the buttons' of anyone in authority?
> Really?
>
> Crocs are being worn after 2007?
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> http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20090918&name=Blondie
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function, and you would think I wouldn't be caught dead in a pair of those.
I don't even know why I first slipped my feet into a pair of fleece-lined
Crocs. Just wanted to see what all the fuss was about, I guess. Well, it's
like your feet died and went to heaven. I *almost* can't wait for winter to
come.
Jym Dyer
> Crocs are being worn to `push the buttons' of anyone in
> authority? Really?
=v= Not really. But I simply must add, hulloooo, Zeeba Neighba!
> Crocs are being worn after 2007?
=v= Still in business, despite a children's line that seemed to
be tailor-made to get stuck in escalators. :^(
<_Jym_>
Mike Peterson
> http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20090918&name=Bl...
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> > Crocs are being worn to `push the buttons' of anyone in
> > authority? Really?
>
> =v= Not really. But I simply must add, hulloooo, Zeeba Neighba!
My son left the Navy after smashing his ankle and became a nurse. He
finds that Crocs rotate that ankle to a degree that allows him to be
on his feet for long hours that he wouldn't be able to take otherwise,
even with his expensive-and-uncomfortable custom orthotic brace. But
he's had some pushback over them, mostly because of the holes, which
medical people fear. However, he points out that germs lodge in the
crevices of their shoes, too, and he can wash his much more
thoroughly.
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> > Crocs are being worn after 2007?
>
> =v= Still in business, despite a children's line that seemed to
> be tailor-made to get stuck in escalators. :^(
Alas, the company is in trouble. If you like them, buy several. You'll
either save the company or give yourself a supply for when it goes
under.
Meanwhile, here's a 2001 gem from TIME Magazine on a related
product ...
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,134101,00.html
Mike Peterson
http://nellieblogs.blogspot.com
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Phil Sunde
> Crocs are being worn to `push the buttons' of anyone in authority?
> Really?
>
> Crocs are being worn after 2007?
>
> http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20090918&name=Blondie
>
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/09/10_things_we_learned_about_geo.html
Ten Things We Learned About Bush From His Ex-Speechwriter
"Back in August, there was reportedly considerable hand-wringing among
Bush's inner circle about the tell-all account soon to be released by
George W. Bush's former speechwriter, Matt Latimer, about his time in
the Oval Office. And, it turns out, it was maybe for good reason. GQ
snagged some excerpts of the book, Speech Less: Tales of a White House
Survivor, and the portrait it paints of the ex-president (and his
advisers), is, though not horrible, often unflattering. But not always!
Herewith, the top ten things we learned about Dubya."
"10. Bush Wears Crocs: Particularly when he practices speeches."
aemeijers
I've still got a pair of those, keeping them as a collector item. The
brand name got sold off to a pacific rim company that puts the label on
vanilla casual shoes. I always found them comfortable, but not real
practical, in that the negative heel wore down to nothing quickly. I
wish other brands would adopt the splayed toe design, though, even with
a conventional sole. Pointy shoes (especially womens shoes) are foot
crippling inventions of the devil, and should be banned by Geneva
convention as a torture device.
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aem sends...
Antonio E. Gonzalez
Not Time, but this Newsweek article ended up getting some of the
strongest hate mail in their history:
<http://www.newsweek.com/id/150240>
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Cindy Kandolf
> Crocs are being worn to `push the buttons' of anyone in authority?
> Really?
>
> Crocs are being worn after 2007?
>
> http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20090918&name=Blondie
Yes, Crocs are still being worn after 2007. I work at a daycare that
requires the kids (and adults) to have "inside shoes". Lots of the
kids have Crocs for that. I think the shoes look stupid, but I have to
admit, plastic shoes that can be hosed down are handy when some kid
spills something, or has a slight potty training accident, or pukes,
or several of these at the same time. And the bright colors look kind
of cute... on four-year-olds.
Since the popularity of Crocs seems to have been based on the theory
that if everyone else jumps off a cliff, it must be cool, I'd hardly
call them anti-establishment.
Full disclosure: there are two pairs of Crocs in this household, and
neither one of them is mine.
- Cindy Kandolf, certified language mechanic, mamma flodnak
flodmail: ci...@nethelp.no flodhome: B�rum, Norway
flodweb: http://www.flodnak.com/
Mike Marshall
>Yes, Crocs are still being worn after 2007. I work at a daycare that
>requires the kids (and adults) to have "inside shoes". Lots of the
>kids have Crocs for that. I think the shoes look stupid, but I have to
>admit, plastic shoes that can be hosed down are handy when some kid
>spills something, or has a slight potty training accident, or pukes,
>or several of these at the same time. And the bright colors look kind
>of cute... on four-year-olds.
My wife wears them out to the horse barn...
-Mike
Mike Beede
<06656ce8-d0f0-4c3a...@q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
Mike Peterson <racs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Meanwhile, here's a 2001 gem from TIME Magazine on a related
> product ...
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,134101,00.html
I remember having a pair around 1974. Even with teenaged
ankles, they stunk on toast. Also, with the thick plastic
sole, they were very unpleasant to wear to school in
the winter . . . chiefly because our shoes stayed in the
unheated back porch and sometimes it was twenty below in
the morning when I had to put them on. In fact, that was
the coldest I can ever remember my feet being.
Mike Beede