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Mum: Are you warm enough in the guest room?
Me: I might put a different blanket on the guest bed, I want a real quilt.
Mum: I don't know where you would find one.
Me: Oh, outside the guest room. There are quilts in the...the thing...the pantry for blankets. 
Mum: The LINEN CLOSET?
Me: Yes. That.
Mum: *uncontrollable laughter* THE BLANKET PANTRY!
Me: WELL IT WORKED

I am tired. It is hard to word.

Date: 2012-10-26 02:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] effervescent.livejournal.com
Hey, I kinda like blanket pantry. :D

Date: 2012-10-26 03:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nutmeg3.livejournal.com
I think "blanket pantry" should be a thing.

Date: 2012-10-26 04:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sandrayln.livejournal.com
I totally just read that as "blanket party." That, too, should be a thing.

Date: 2012-10-26 05:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] justice-turtle.livejournal.com
BLANKET PARTY IN THE BLANKET PANTRY.

What do you mean - we'll totally all fit! We can squeeze up! ^_^

Date: 2012-10-26 05:44 am (UTC)
kowe: (kowe-Shadow kitty)
From: [personal profile] kowe
As former military, "blanket party" is not something that I can see being banded about lightly and let pass. It's an innocuous term for an entire bay to beat someone black-and-blue in the middle of the night for nothing more than having trouble fitting into their platoon. So I'd rather not see "blanket party" be a thing, thanks.

Blanket pantry on the other hand, I'm totally down with. It's more articulate than I am when I can't remember what something is called. :p

Date: 2012-10-26 10:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozisim.livejournal.com
Wow.
In our house a blanket party meant building a fort out of the the big coffee table and the woollen (ex-military) blankets and sleeping in the warmth in front of the stove downstairs.
I found out when I was older that it was my parents way of de-scarifying bushfire survival in case we ever couldn't evacuate in time... But it was an awesome thing that I missed doing after we all grew too big to all fit under there.

Date: 2012-10-26 10:06 pm (UTC)
kowe: (kowe-Shadow kitty)
From: [personal profile] kowe
That sounds so much more fun than the military version!

Date: 2012-10-26 11:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sandrayln.livejournal.com
Huh. Filing that one under "slang I had NO IDEA existed"...

Date: 2012-10-26 10:07 pm (UTC)
kowe: (kowe-Shadow kitty)
From: [personal profile] kowe
Yeah, I think it's something few people who weren't in the military realize exists.

Date: 2012-10-26 01:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ncp.livejournal.com
I thought that was called a "Code Red"?

Maybe I've watched "A Few Good Men" too many times.

Date: 2012-10-26 10:05 pm (UTC)
kowe: (kowe-Shadow kitty)
From: [personal profile] kowe
Nope, never heard my drill sergeants call it a "Code Red" but they talked plenty about 'blanket parties' during their time in training.

Date: 2012-10-26 04:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jonaht.livejournal.com
I will back this idea. Everyone should have a blanket pantry.

Date: 2012-10-27 03:52 pm (UTC)
minkrose: (truly happy)
From: [personal profile] minkrose
I agree! We actually have one (a delightfully massive closet) and now I think it needs A SIGN. Wheeee!

Date: 2012-10-26 04:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xturtle.livejournal.com
My very tired mother once called a barn a cow house. Have a good sleep!

Date: 2012-10-26 05:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com
I vote that henceforth we all strike "linen closet" from our vocabularies, replacing it with "blanket pantry." I like that much better.

Date: 2012-10-26 05:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mythologian.livejournal.com
she knew what you were talking about, in my opinion that's all that really matters

Date: 2012-10-26 07:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] itcamefromjapan.livejournal.com
My grandma once called deodorant "underarm salve."

Which was pretty great, but I think I like BLANKET PANTRY better. :D

Date: 2012-10-26 11:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taerowyn.livejournal.com
My family still teases me for my use once of "fence door" when I blanked on the correct word....but as you say WELL IT WORKED.

Date: 2012-10-26 02:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stgreyhounds.livejournal.com
I saw sheep at Bryant Park recently (part of Prince Charles's wool initiative), and since my husband works right by there, he and his "work husband" stopped by to meet me and look at the sheep, too.
The fountain was filled with a wool sculpture that looked like the kind of artistic water that normally fills a fountains. I pointed it ot to the guys.
The work husband: "Wow, is that made of sheep fur?"
Me: "Yes... also known as wool."
My husband: LOLs.

Date: 2012-10-26 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] midgetgems.livejournal.com
Little!Sam: Mummy I need a socket for my sword.
Me: A... socket... for your sword?
L!S: Yes! One of those sockets to put my sword in like this *mimes*
Me: You mean a sheath...?
L!S: Well you put a plug in a plug socket so I thought you put a sword in a sword socket.

Date: 2012-10-27 08:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] midgetgems.livejournal.com
Sam's the world over, making shit up because they can. :P

He frequently just makes up words when he doesn't know what the actual thing is called. Usually his version makes so much more sense.

Date: 2012-11-03 08:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steeldreams.livejournal.com
I want a blanket pantry.

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