# Scribbing Bubbles **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505 "2000-07-31T04:42:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/1 "2000-07-31T04:42:46Z")
You read that correctly: “Scribbing Bubbles.” You see, while I was refilling my herbal iced tea (I _swear_, I am _not_ drinking anything alcoholic), I glanced at the grocery list on the counter, and there it was: “Scribbing Bubbles.” Of course, I meant to write “Scrubbing,” but that’s not my point. My point is… well, I thought to myself, “Self? What _on earth_ could _possibly_ be more “mundane and pointless” than the fact that I write stuff like ‘Scrubbing/Scribbing/Whatever Bubbles’ on my shopping list?” So there you have it. I _think_ this is the first thread I’ve ever started, but I’m not sure. Oh, and I lied about the alcohol thing. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/2 "2000-07-31T04:58:19Z")
Ummmm…errr…ahem…what’s a scrubbing bubble? ---
**Author:** ![Frannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/3 "2000-07-31T05:20:26Z")
It’s a bubble that scrubs. It comes from a can. One sprays the bubbles from the can onto soap scum and such in the shower and on other scummy bathroom things. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/4 "2000-07-31T05:27:15Z")
It’s a bathroom/kitchen cleaner. Hey, there’s a web page for 'em: [http://www.scjbrands.com/docs/bubbles/bubbles.asp](http://www.scjbrands.com/docs/bubbles/bubbles.asp) They’ve even got an FAQ. Wonder what kind of questions people ask about Scrubbing Bubbles… Darn. I just read the FAQ. I’m so disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/5 "2000-07-31T05:52:35Z")
And here I was thinking it was another pronunciation of **Swimming Riddles’** nick. ---
**Author:** ![Frannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/6 "2000-07-31T06:15:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > \*\*It’s a bathroom/kitchen cleaner. > > Hey, there’s a web page for 'em: [http://www.scjbrands.com/docs/bubbles/bubbles.asp](http://www.scjbrands.com/docs/bubbles/bubbles.asp) They’ve even got an FAQ. Wonder what kind of questions people ask about Scrubbing Bubbles… > > Darn. I just read the FAQ. I’m so disappointed. \*\* Gosh, the FAQ were pretty boring, although I’m now motivated to get to the grocery store ASAP. Gross stuff might be growing in my shower. (Oh, and I _almost_ downloaded the screen saver. _Almost._) ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/7 "2000-07-31T17:14:40Z")
Scrubbing Bubbles are the greatest! They make cleaning the bathroom effortless, other than how lightheaded you get if you don’t open a window. Spray it on, leave for a few seconds, wipe off. Ta da! Clean n shiny n nice. My only beef is that I once sent off for a free scrubbing bubble bath toy and it never arrived. I assume I made some kind of mistake in ordering, had not enough UPCs or something, but it still crushed my poor little 19-year-old self when it failed to arrive. ::Sigh:: They “work hard, so you don’t have tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.” ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/8 "2000-07-31T17:24:26Z")
When I was little I thought–seriously–that little brushes really did come out of the can. I realized that they wouldn’t actually have eyes or talk or anything, but I was sure they were little brushes, tons of them. I was vaguely suspicous that they would all land bristle-side down and do the job they were supposed to, but hey, who was I to question advertising? In later life an MBA-seeking boyfriend had an interview with Dow (or whomever) they gave him a plastic scrubbing bubble. I wanted it SOOOOOOOOOO bad but the greedy bastard wouldn’t give it over. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/9 "2000-07-31T17:47:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\* > In later life an MBA-seeking boyfriend had an interview with Dow (or whomever) they gave him a plastic scrubbing bubble. I wanted it SOOOOOOOOOO bad but the greedy bastard wouldn’t give it over. \*\* Gasp! What if that was my bath toy, waylaid by the Human Resources staff? The horrors!!! ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/10 "2000-07-31T18:00:56Z")
If I ever see two, I’ll buy 'em both and you can have one. I can’t believe I still put out for that selfish jackass. One positive: he now works for Disney! Cool free stuff outta that deal, he promises, once my offspring gets old enough. Right. Like I’m gonna share with the kid… ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/11 "2000-07-31T18:24:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\* > I can’t believe I still put out for that selfish jackass. > \*\* I hear ya, sister. I once went out with a guy (for quite a while) who wouldn’t share his takeout food with me because I didn’t have any money to contribute. At the time it seemed logical, but thinking back on it, I was a starving college kid putting myself through school with no money coming from home. Would it have killed him to let me have a slice of pizza every now and again? ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/12 "2000-07-31T18:28:24Z")
Scuse the hijack everybody, but grrrrr… He volunteered to pick me up from home and drive me back to college after spring break. On the way there he insisted on stopping at a steak house, and told me he’d leave me there (50 miles froom home, 100 miles from school) if I didn’t buy him dinner. So I said OK, then he threatened to leave me there if I didn’t eat, too. It took a serious chunk out of my book money. Looking back, I now think he might not have actually left me there, but I was 18 and not very well equipped to stick up for myself. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/13 "2000-07-31T19:19:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Frannie \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > > \*\*It’s a bathroom/kitchen cleaner. > > > > Hey, there’s a web page for 'em: [http://www.scjbrands.com/docs/bubbles/bubbles.asp](http://www.scjbrands.com/docs/bubbles/bubbles.asp) They’ve even got an FAQ. Wonder what kind of questions people ask about Scrubbing Bubbles… > > > > Darn. I just read the FAQ. I’m so disappointed. \*\* > > Gosh, the FAQ were pretty boring, although I’m now motivated to get to the grocery store ASAP. Gross stuff might be growing in my shower. (Oh, and I _almost_ downloaded the screen saver. _Almost._) \*\* Here’s a link for ya’- and remember- it’s never too late to have a happy childhood! Zette [http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=396817709](http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=396817709) ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/14 "2000-07-31T19:49:43Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Zette \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Here’s a link for ya’- and remember- it’s never too late to have a happy childhood! > Zette > [http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=396817709](http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=396817709) \*\* LOL!!! Originally sold in 1989 - that was when I was 19. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/15 "2000-07-31T19:55:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GuanoLad \* > \*\*And here I was thinking it was another pronunciation of **Swimming Riddles’** nick. \*\* Me, too. I thought the ColdieClogs disease had spread across the Atlantic. 🙂 I love those scrubbing bubbles. The first time I bought a bottle, I honestly think I expected something more exciting then soap foam to come out of the sprayer. Damn me. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/16 "2000-08-01T03:34:33Z")
Motorgirl, you wanna give us the guys name so we can take him out back and rough him up a little? What an asshole. Seriously, that guy sounds like a creep. Forcing you to buy him dinner, at a steakhouse to boot? Man I wish I had the balls to pull things like that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Frannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scribbing-bubbles/27505/17 "2000-08-01T06:12:52Z")
I set the cute li’l scrubbing bubble dude from eBay as wallpaper. Yeah, I’m nuts, so what of it? 😉 Oh, and I visited the grocery store today and bought not one, but _two_ cans of _LEMON_ Scrubbing Bubbles! I love life. [sub](and bubbles)[/sub]