# If you were a fabric, what kind of fabric would you be? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 24, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533 "2007-02-24T18:31:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/41 "2007-02-26T21:50:49Z")
What are tampons made of ? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/42 "2007-02-26T21:53:03Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] What are tampons made of ? [/QUOTE] Rayon or cotton. Why, do you often stick your head into the thick of things when it gets messy? šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_Schmeese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Marconi\_Schmeese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_Schmeese)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/43 "2007-02-26T22:25:19Z")
Iā€™m worn denim, but I aspire to be silk shantung. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/44 "2007-02-27T03:35:09Z")
**100% polyester.** Hey, my throw blanket is the softest, lightest, I-just-want-to-wrap-my-naked-self-in-it-and-wriggle-around-like-a-cat puffiest fabric Iā€™ve ever had the pleasure to rub my feet on. And thatā€™s what the tag says. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/45 "2007-02-27T03:41:30Z")
I would want to be **LunaV** ā€™s blanket. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Barrels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@Barrels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrels)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/46 "2007-02-27T15:15:20Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Does that make yā€™all jeanetically related? I mean, if you share the same jeansā€¦ [/QUOTE] I reckon that there is correct! šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/47 "2007-02-27T21:24:38Z")
[QUOTE=Monstre] I would want to be **LunaV** ā€™s blanket. šŸ˜‰ [/QUOTE] šŸ˜ƒ I donā€™t \*actually \* wrap my naked self in it. Althoughā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/48 "2007-02-27T22:14:57Z")
Velvet - soft, pretty, impractical and covered with cat hair ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/49 "2007-03-03T00:00:29Z")
Wow. This is like a Spinal Tap thread. How much more pointless can you get? None, none more pointless. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/50 "2007-03-03T00:48:56Z")
Another vote for Denimā€¦ I would be faded denim, with a few interesting , and faded ā€œembroidered patchesā€ on it. Once worn as a jean jacket, but recycled into a comfy cover on a sofa cushion/lamp shade or some such. The patches would include everything from a NASA Mission Patch to a Grateful Dead Teddy/Jerry bear. Regards FML ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/51 "2007-03-03T00:57:54Z")
[QUOTE=yojimbo] Wow. This is like a Spinal Tap thread. How much more pointless can you get? None, none more pointless. [/QUOTE] Iā€™m an arsehole. Sorry. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/52 "2007-03-03T02:55:03Z")
Well, it had actually run its course and died a quick, painless natural death-- or did it?!? **yojimbo** , you pounded on the chest, blew life into the nostrilsā€¦why youā€™re the Miracle Max of pointless threads! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/53 "2007-03-03T03:39:15Z")
Well, it was only mostly dead. Does this mean \*\*yojimbo \*\*is a [defribrillation pad](http://www.buyemp.com/category/Defibrillation-Pads.html)? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533/54 "2007-03-03T03:41:22Z")
Slightly purplish gray all-wool gabardine suiting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-fabric-what-kind-of-fabric-would-you-be/393533.md?page=2)