# Leather Pants for Sale

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leather-pants-for-sale/324582>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 3, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leather-pants-for-sale/324582 "2005-10-03T15:05:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leather-pants-for-sale/324582/1 "2005-10-03T15:05:39Z")

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Hope we haven’t done this one already -  
[funny e-Bay ad.](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8335653541)

I like the part in the comments below where he says he’s a commercial ad writer, but it’s hard to make the ads funny because of the idiots making the final decisions. That explains a lot.

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leather-pants-for-sale/324582/2 "2005-10-03T15:24:02Z")

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😃 We had fun with this [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=336600) I’m pretty sure its the same advert.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leather-pants-for-sale/324582/3 "2005-10-03T15:35:36Z")

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Oh well, never mind then. Sigh.

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leather-pants-for-sale/324582/4 "2005-10-03T17:17:09Z")

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Yep, we have. And those pants on eBay are unfortunate.