And Yet Another Entry for "No, really. We talk like this."

[gnomi]

The scene: gnomi is doing some spot-cleaning of shirts with Zout.

mabfan: Got a sec?

gnomi: I'll be right there... I have Zout fingers.

mabfan: Zout fingers?

gnomi: Sounds maybe like a family we know from shul, the Zoutfingers?

Comments

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

my first thought was that zout fingers sounded like some kind of sci-fi infection, delivered, perhaps, via vending machine pastry.

Although I may have at some point lived next to a family named zoutfingers...it just sounds like the quintessential neighbor name.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

See, my second thought was that Zoutfinger would make a good Bond villian. But you're right -- next-door-neighbors is also a good role for the Zoutfingers.

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a horried flesh-eating disease; like something my grandmother would whisper the way she whispers "cancer" or "gay". ;-)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah -- "shhh... we don't talk about it, but Mary contracted zoutfinger in Barcelona."

As I told cbpotts, my second thought was that Zoutfinger would be a Bond villian.

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

Zout being far more precious than gold. At least as far as laundry is concerned. ;-)

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

How well does that stuff work?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful. I used it to get out curry stains, tomato stains, dye. All sorts of hard-to-remove stains.

I get the stuff in the purple bottle. I can't speak for the efficacy of the other types.

[beckyfeld.livejournal.com]

They all work very well. I use it to get out almost everything except ink and marker.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Good to know! I'll have to watch for it... Thanks!

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

Wait...I KNOW them! Jacob, Sarah, and their son Joshua Zoutfinger. :-)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Nice family; always help out when they're asked. And always extremely clean :-)

[donovanstitch.livejournal.com]

My mind went straight to the awful Bond theme song of yore. Zouuutfingeaaaz! (The Fam with the golden touch!) Okay, got that out of my system.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

As I mentioned above, that was my second thought.