I think the point is, "dude, it's a purse." At least that's what I was thinking this morning as I carried it into work.
I'm a fop. I could don my Utilikilt and tam and go to town in full Nü- Scots drag. Philip www.biketinker.com On Feb 9, 1:55 pm, William <[email protected]> wrote: > In the Progressive Insurance commercial the husband and wife are > shopping for insurance. The Progressive spokesperson comments on how > the man is carrying the wife's purse, to which the wife haughtily > replies "It's a European handbag" and the husband says "It was a gift" > and nods his eyes in the wife's direction, indicating that he has to > not only use it but pretend to like it since the wife gave it to > him. > > I can only assume that one using that reference to a Brand-V grabsack > would be stating that the grabsack is not as useful as it claims to be > and the only reason anybody would use one is because it was a gift. > > Or maybe he didn't mean to say that the grabsack is lame or even > effeminate, but only was making the cultural reference to the > commercial. Maybe he just meant that users of the grabsack might have > to explain to people what it is and what it's for, like the dude in > the commercial. > > Back to your original statement, though, Seth. You don't get the > point of the reference, and neither do I. > > On Feb 9, 10:43 am, Seth Vidal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:37 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was thinking of the insurance commercial. > > > Sorry, I have no context for that at all. > > > -sv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
