"I Had A Really Nice Dream Last Night About Daniel Craig" tea-towel
The ever-amusing Cod from mumsnet and her unique typing style - imagine someone smashing at a keyboard with their head, unaware of any "Spellcheck" facility - blogs this desireable kitchen item here, but neglects to mention you can buy it here for a mere £6. £6! For such a profound statement! The world really is a reasonable place.
Personally, I would like to see an immediate, almost urgent extension of this range. An "I Had A Special Thought About Doc Ock From Spider-Man 2 And His Third Arm" tea-cosy; maybe. Or a "I Was Distracted Packing Away Some Shopping When It Occurred To Me That Jonathan Ross Has Very Soft Lips" shoulder bag.
LOL, I was supposed to be Mumtotwo which had more of a ring about it, but I was tired and forgot my own moniker...
Posted by: Mumoftwo | 4 Dec 2007 17:18:03
Yes, I agree, MOT, (sorry, that makes you sound like a car!) I often read an article in the Times and wish we were all commenting on it here.
Perhaps following recent events Caitlin has been taken off to be shot by the Times internet police and the others are forming a human chain to protect her.
Or maybe they've all just got flu.
Posted by: | 4 Dec 2007 14:47:50
Totally agree, new topic needed. I see quite a few relevant articles in the Times every week (e.g. the one SM cites, one on bringing up boys recently, lots that Libby Purves writes) that would make great discussion issues, but don't get linked up. Are the topics here supposed to be separate from the main paper?
Posted by: Mumoftwo | 4 Dec 2007 12:28:22
Is everyone at AlphaMummy dead? I have nothing more to add on the subject on tea towels. Yea, even I, the loquacious and permanently online one...
can we have a new post before Christmas please?
Posted by: | 4 Dec 2007 09:36:30
Yes, I saw that Supermother and thought of the discussion we had. Come on, Times Women, get blogging!
Posted by: margot | 3 Dec 2007 19:51:17
Well on a much lower down thread, the unilever video showing the little girl and the threats ahead for her from anorexia, body image issues etc someone has gone and cut into that footage from the company's other risque adverts to show that the Dove stuff may in fact just be a marketing ploy and they as much as any other company are into exploiting women etc etc...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwDEF-w4rJk
Posted by: supermother | 3 Dec 2007 19:11:42
I'm not sure I'd buy it, but I wouldn't object to being given one How about one that said "I had a really nice dream about Sharpe last night" - or (moving off the subject of sex symbols briefly and harking back a month or so), a set of tea towels that read "Oven glove" "Not an oven glove"?
Posted by: Anne | 3 Dec 2007 18:58:05
My teatowels are most of the holy variety, as I can never seem to make myself spend money actually buying the things.
Posted by: Gipsy | 3 Dec 2007 14:34:57
This was posted 4 days ago....is anybody writing anything else? I'm bored with this one.
Btw, all my tea towels are of the blue check/white background, supermarket's cheapest own brand variety. Am I going to kitchen linen hell?
Posted by: Mel | 3 Dec 2007 11:41:27
LOL @ KM!
My son dreams about Thomas the TT and Lazytown - he shouts a lot in his sleep. And sometimes when he wakes up in the morning, he blinks blearily, looks around the room, then says 'bye bye Thomas'.
Posted by: Gipsy | 3 Dec 2007 08:23:50
only women woudl make this thread abotu copyright law.
lets face it its abotu a tuaght body and piercing eyes.
phwaorrgh
think my son dresma sbout farkign pokemon
anwyway come adn vote its NECK and NECK
Posted by: cod | 2 Dec 2007 18:16:41
My tea towel would read
"I got some sleep between 3 and 4 am."
Posted by: kieransmum | 2 Dec 2007 12:10:22
I like Daniel Craig as an actor ever since I saw him in Our Friends up North. His performance in that blew me away. I have never seen him as a sex symbol though.
My tea towel would read: I had a really nice dream about Daniel Jackson last night.
Posted by: Gipsy | 1 Dec 2007 21:01:29
Ohhh god now Jose
Another kettle of Cod altogether
He is so do-able
and saying
I had a dream about Daniel Craig (the thought) is not prosecutable under intellectual property rights...
Yet...
Posted by: Piffle | 1 Dec 2007 20:11:31
I have to share this with you, my husband is Daniel Craig's dopelganger. Although my list of most fancy-able males include dark swarthy types.. Jose Monihro, Antonio Banderas, Robert De Niro and I'll fess up to Martin Kemp (!?)- make of that what you will!
Posted by: wonderwench | 30 Nov 2007 23:13:55
You just need to be careful about use of people's names without consent because it implies they've endorsed your product or licensed the use of their name for a fee. If I produced the Victoria Beckham tea towel or toilet paper with the Queen's picture on it or Heaven forfend I sold teddy bears called Mohammed I might not along incur the wrath of the the courts but possibly be struck down by various Gods as well.
Posted by: supermother | 30 Nov 2007 21:05:59
Supermother, I'm not a lawyer, but I dare say that the mere mention of Daniel Craig's name doesn't constitute a copyright breach.
Anyway, this thread has made me laugh more than any in ages. Thanks, all. Especially Margot, who sounds like a woman after my own heart (humourless, uptight, moralistic etc.)
Posted by: Kim | 30 Nov 2007 20:27:30
There's a vast difference for heaven's sake between saying you had a nice dream about Daniel Craig and saying what it was about!!!! Because it doesn't say what it was about, it isn't sexual per se, and so how could any child be 'exposed' to sex by it. They might find it a bit shocking that Mum can fancy blokes who aren't Dad, however.... (!!) (but then, of course, as all kids know, mums and dads are far too ancient and crinkly to be 'doing it' even with each other, let alone anyone else. Just gross, really....)
Posted by: Jane | 30 Nov 2007 19:34:52
I guess that's true, KM! All praise deserved I love your blog and look forward to each instalment.
Posted by: Wonderbra | 30 Nov 2007 15:16:07
No, WB, she's almost 12! She'll never again think you're normal.
PS: Thanks for kind comments
Posted by: kieransmum | 30 Nov 2007 15:07:05
My 11 year old came back from a school outing to Elizabeth The Golden Age, really really keen on Clive Owen. She keeps asking me why I don't feel the same way about him. Perhaps if I buy the tea towel, she'll think I'm more normal.
Posted by: Wonderbra | 30 Nov 2007 14:49:47
Depends what you think you and DC could get up to on that caravan holiday! Especially if it rained...
Posted by: kieransmum | 30 Nov 2007 14:47:49
My nearly four year old has told me about her dreams of Fireman Sam heroically rescuing her from various situations. The dream of a man on a white charger starts young...
Posted by: Mumoftwo | 30 Nov 2007 14:26:59
' doubt the "nice dream" was about Daniel Craig popping round and talking about hiring a caravan in Filey for the summer season.'
This made me think of the Catherine Tate sketch, in which the deperate woman who has had a number of ill-fated internet marriages, is completely unimpressed by Daniel Craig being in love with her.
I will be trying to get this tea-towel for a number of my friends for Christmas, and will also be suggesting an 'I had a nasty dream' about Daniel Craig last night' tea-towel. It will be a long time before the bump can read, so no need to worry about thrusting sexual ideas on it, or making it think that celebrities are in any way important, just yet.
Posted by: Hayls | 30 Nov 2007 13:58:55
I think it's subtle enough for innocent kids not to be shocked though, and your teens can have a grossed-out snigger. Normal family life, really.
Posted by: j | 30 Nov 2007 12:58:54