# Can someone explain the pic in this ad? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 9, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107 "2009-02-09T18:46:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/21 "2009-02-09T19:50:09Z")
> [@C3](#): > > My mom and I went on a cruise years ago and, in our rush to get out to the pool, we left the cabin a little messy. When I came back, the steward had folded my dirty underwear into a little bird. Grossed me out a bit. Just when you think you’ve heard of every possible fetish … ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/22 "2009-02-09T19:56:17Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > So what’s the deal with cruises and the staff messing with your stuff? A long time at sea can do strange things to a person. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/23 "2009-02-09T20:06:24Z")
Maybe it’s supposed to be a towel monkey, but it looks like a modification of the raw chicken towel, by just stuffing in a sock for the nose, and putting some glasses on it. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/24 "2009-02-09T20:09:52Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Our maids did that on a cruise once. Folded an elephant out of the towels and put my wife’s sunglasses on it. > Kind of ticked off my wife that they were messing with her sunglasses. She should just be glad she didn’t find an elephant in her pajamas. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/25 "2009-02-09T20:19:01Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > It’s a towel rolled up to look like a monkey. Cruises and resorts are big on rolling up towels to look like animals to leave you a nice little surprise when they clean. The most common one is [towel swans](http://www.wikihow.com/Fold-a-Towel-Swan). Okay, so the image is trying to get you to want to go on a cruise, but the image is effective only for people who have _already been_ on a cruise and recognize it. The rest of us are just frightened by the soul-sucking monkey-mummy. Effective ad campaign. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/26 "2009-02-09T20:36:14Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > Petrified monkey demon. Band name! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/27 "2009-02-09T20:36:43Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > She should just be glad she didn’t find an elephant in her pajamas. I did. How it got on a cruise ship, I’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/28 "2009-02-09T20:44:35Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > So what’s the deal with cruises and the staff messing with your stuff? Well, the towels are fresh towels that they bring in to replace your dirty ones, or ones that you’ve re-hung and are now dry, so technically, they belong to the cruise ship anyways. On the three cruises I’ve taken, they have used my sunglasses and a sunhat once only when we left them out on the bed or couch or somewhere they normally would have to move it to tidy up anyways. No one has ever moved or messed with anything else of ours, but then, we tend to keep our room pretty clean ourselves. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/29 "2009-02-09T20:49:08Z")
Anyone else think ‘towel monkey’ ought to be some sort of euphemism? “Wanna come out to the pub?” “Sorry. I’ve got some hot towel-monkey action planned this weekend with you-know-who.” ---
**Author:** ![longPath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@longPath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/longPath)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/30 "2009-02-09T21:02:00Z")
> [@C3](#): > > My mom and I went on a cruise years ago and, in our rush to get out to the pool, we left the cabin a little messy. When I came back, the steward had folded my dirty underwear into a little bird. Grossed me out a bit. Pictures? ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/31 "2009-02-09T22:12:56Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > She should just be glad she didn’t find an elephant in her pajamas > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I did. How it got on a cruise ship, I’ll never know. rescued from the tiny island where the whale abandoned them. That is, the whale who rescued them from the larger island where their balloon crashed. Duh ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/32 "2009-02-09T22:33:57Z")
Yeah, that would just piss me off but I’m a 20 something year old guy without kids… So I could see the “aw, the kids love it” POV even if it isn’t mine. Personally I think if I’d seen that thing as a child I’d be terrified of water for the rest of my life and probably be stuck in the corner sucking my thumb for the whole cruise. Thing would be effin’ creepy for a 4 year old to come across. Just my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/33 "2009-02-09T22:34:17Z")
[QUOTE=longPath] Pictures? [/QUOTE] Uh, no, I’m not going to post a picture of my underpants. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/34 "2009-02-09T22:35:42Z")
> [@C3](#): > > Uh, no, I’m not going to post a picture of my underpants. Coward. ---
**Author:** ![Catfood\_Purrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/35 "2009-02-10T00:42:21Z")
About eleven years ago, I went on a Royal Caribbean cruise. Every night, the cabin steward would take our pajamas out of the closet and fold them into animal shapes. One night, he mistook my cocktail dress for a nightie and folded it into a puppy. I mean, really. It didn’t even look like pajamas. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/36 "2009-02-10T03:07:50Z")
> [@Mishell](#): > > About eleven years ago, I went on a Royal Caribbean cruise. Every night, the cabin steward would take our pajamas out of the closet and fold them into animal shapes. One night, he mistook my cocktail dress for a nightie and folded it into a puppy. I mean, really. It didn’t even look like pajamas. Between the diseases, being dropped off at tourist traps, people falling overboard, and staff screwing with your stuff, not exactly in great endorsement for the cruise industry. ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/37 "2009-02-10T04:20:31Z")
I have always hated the idea of a cruise but I’m getting older and SO would really love it so I had relinquished that hard line a little. I even looked up to see what repositioning cruises were from the other thread. But between towel monkeys and this… > [@](#): > > My mom and I went on a cruise years ago and, in our rush to get out to the pool, we left the cabin a little messy. When I came back, the steward had folded my dirty underwear into a little bird. Grossed me out a bit. She’ll be waiting another 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/38 "2009-02-10T05:58:26Z")
Does anyone else see something vaguely sexual in the pic in the OP? I can’t tell what it is, it just looks a little too suggestive. ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/39 "2009-02-10T07:18:40Z")
> [@Mudshark](#): > > Does anyone else see something vaguely sexual in the pic in the OP? I can’t tell what it is, it just looks a little too suggestive. Aww dammit. I didn’t see anything sexual in it at all but now it looks like a fuzzy vagina with a smiling, glasses wearing clitoris! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107/40 "2009-02-10T07:19:32Z")
I think it’s supposed to represent some kind of rigging on a sailing ship, one where they don’t worry very much about keeping the rigging functional. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-pic-in-this-ad/485107.md?page=3)