Now I want to talk about a clothes hanger

[solarbird]

So somewhere along the line we found this clothes hanger, probably when we lived in the U. District. Now, we of course have a lot of clothes hangers - I bought a bunch of wooden ones in boxes of 50 at Target for very reasonable cost, and those are the ones I mostly use. I kept this one because it was plastic and thick, so you could hang-dry clothes on it. Beyond that, it's just an old plastic hanger - nothing noteworthy about it. Or so I thought, until one day, I looked a little closer.

This suit hanger was some engineer's baby. It was some company's pride. It was a hanger a company cared enough about not just to throw into a box, not even just to brand, but to give a model. To, in fact, name. And not just any name, even; they wanted to give it a name with drama; one that implied intrigue. They wanted a name a man would remember, a model for which he'd ask. They wanted a name that he'd see and think, You know, I bet James Bond uses this hanger. I should, too.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Falcon 17:


Falcon 17


Not Even Joking

Comments

[foibos.livejournal.com]

Ooooo.

Men. Simple creatures, easy to sway. Well, you can live with them, but you can also live without them.

;)

[ravyngyngvar.livejournal.com]

Of course I started googling, to come up with some information about this Rolls Royce of clothes hangers. A search for "Falcon 17 clothes hanger" came up with nothing relevant that I could find, except for a link back to your journal entry. I was a little surprised about how quickly it must have entered Google's index.

"John Thomas Batts," on the other hand, apparently has several clothes hanger related patents: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/result.html?p=1&edit_alert=&srch=xprtsrch&query_txt=AN%2FJohn+Thomas+Batts&uspat=on&date_range=all&stemming=on&sort=chron&search=Search

I suppose the US cannot afford to lag behind in the clothes hanger race.

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

I am now fighting the urge to run upstairs and examine all of my clothes hangers....

Cathy

[lickingtoad.livejournal.com]

Careful, tomorrow you'll be hanging up your winter coat and the *Falcon 17* will shoot neurotoxic flechettes!

(It needs a laser-sight. Seriously. Or at least a clip.)

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Falcons 1 through 16 sit broken at the bottom of the dusty closet of history. they just weren't up to the task.

[dustin-00.livejournal.com]

You really enjoyed Plan 9 From Outer Space, didn't you?

[solarbird]

Exactly. NOT GOOD ENOUGH! But we learn. We learn from our mistakes.

HA HA Disagree!

[spazzkat.livejournal.com]

Re: HA HA Disagree!

[(Anonymous)]

I really enjoyed your comments on the Falcon. Fun prospective and cleverly presented.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

I can honestly say that I've never seen it. But I probably would laugh at it.

[dustin-00.livejournal.com]

Your comment just shot me back to the age-old question of "Plan 9? What happened with the other 8?"

On top of that, there is a scene where the alien is justifying destroying humanity because it is "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" Try not to be drinking anything when that line comes up. The irony is almost lethal.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Hanger 18, on the other hand, does not and never has existed ;)

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

*ba dum tish*