{"id":3934,"date":"2009-07-15T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2009-07-15T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T20:05:52","slug":"the-wrong-lederhosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3934","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Lederhosen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have this quirky sense of humor that (I think) alternately charms and appalls my friends.&nbsp; The problem with being a nerd is you never quite know for sure when you&#8217;ve taken it too far until your friends are giving you that <em>Oh Do Grow Up<\/em> look again.&nbsp; There is some subtle social sensibility you are missing, which prevents you from stumbling across the line from smart and funny into dumb and annoying.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit&#8230;I was tempted when I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/inventorspot.com\/articles\/novelty_bavarian_lederhosen_with_yodeling_frankfurter_controls_h_15951\">This<\/a>.&nbsp; Oh&#8230;very tempted&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"center\">Novelty Bavarian Lederhosen With Yodeling Frankfurter Controls: Hurry!<\/h2>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/images\/yodel2.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Each 6-inch tall plastic pair of Bavarian Remote Control Lederhosen is activated by an infrared remote control knockwurst.&nbsp; Press the button and the self propelled Lederhosen hops around and sings a merry yodel.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" src=\"\/images\/Yodelling.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">You can have your very own Bavarian Remote Control Lederhosen for $19.49.&nbsp; Requires two AAA batteries.&nbsp; Knockwurst remote control operates your Lederhosen to within 10 feet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">He&#8217;d probably never speak to me again&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have this quirky sense of humor that (I think) alternately charms and appalls my friends.&nbsp; The problem with being a nerd is you never quite know for sure when you&#8217;ve taken it too far until your friends are giving you that Oh Do Grow Up look again.&nbsp; There is some subtle social sensibility you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[51,50,95,42],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-friends","tag-fun","tag-schrodingers-bag-o-laughs","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}