# Special Underpants From America **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 9, 2001, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636 "2001-08-09T18:20:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/1 "2001-08-09T18:20:25Z")
This story has Appeared in the British Daily Express of Yesterday, it is Page 14. Schadenfreude is Not Responsible for The Bad Words: ‘Buck Weimer, who has invented Protective Underwear to filter out the Smell From Farts, is thrilled by the response. ‘We’ve got testimonials from people who’ve said it saved their jobs’, he said. His ‘Thunderpants’ range, which feature a Patented Charcoal Filter system, promise to leave their wearer odour-free for a mere £17 a pair… The average person, by the way, breaks wind 14 times a day to produce half a litre of Gas’. Can this be True? Schadenfreude recognises the Important Inventions made by American Personages over the Centuries of the Last Millenium (Surfing, Las Vegas, Kentucky Fried Chicken, etc), but Special Underpants! Surely a Design Classic. What Worries Schadenfreude Most is the half litre of Gasses which is Emitted Every Day into the Atmosphere of Our Planet. The British Isles has about 60 Million People. If the Ratio of Emissions remains Constant at 14 Efforts per day, we have 30 Million Litres of Unpleasantness drifting into the Stratosphere (Just above Our Heads don’t forget!). And there are more people in the USA! I know that your Mr. George ‘Dubya’ Bush is against the Kyoto Agreement on Greenhouse Gas, but if He Knew how much more Gasses were escaping from His Citizens every day UNCHECKED by adequate Legislation, he would be back in the Negotiating Chair before Tomorrow! Please, all of you out there in AmericaLand, start wearing Mr. Weimer’s Underpants Immediately before there is a Planetary-Style Disaster! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/2 "2001-08-09T18:56:50Z")
I’m not so much as worried for the detrimental effects of our Gasses, as I am of the depletion of the world’s resources of capital letters, coupled with the over-surplus of pronouns that has recently beset our international economy. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/3 "2001-08-09T19:02:41Z")
What worries jarbaby is that she may somehow drop all of her other SDMB crushes for someone with a name like Schadenfreude, whether he farts a lot or not. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/4 "2001-08-09T19:03:46Z")
It has just struck jarbaby that perhaps schadenfreude is a germaniac like her self and is capitalizing all nouns as a nod to the german language which does the same… is she right? we’ll have to see. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/5 "2001-08-09T19:24:40Z")
Damn, and I thought someone had finally found UnderBear (who seems to be lost on its worldwide tour). ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/6 "2001-08-09T19:49:00Z")
Under the category of underwear inventions: [http://www.parascope.com/articles/slips/fs31\_1.htm](http://www.parascope.com/articles/slips/fs31_1.htm) (Note the reference to Uncle Cecil) ---
**Author:** ![Mort\_Furd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mort\_Furd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mort_Furd)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/7 "2001-08-09T19:56:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*It has just struck jarbaby that perhaps schadenfreude is a germaniac like her self and is capitalizing all nouns as a nod to the german language which does the same… > > is she right? we’ll have to see. \*\* As an American residing in Germany, I would tend towards Dr. Schadenfreude actually being German. His capitalization and sentence structure remind me so much of the way my German colleagues butcher the English language. Of course, I return the favor and butcher their language right back. BTW: Dr. Schadenfreude would translate as Dr. Gloat. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/8 "2001-08-09T19:58:26Z")
There’s a category? ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/9 "2001-08-09T20:02:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mort Furd \* > > BTW: Dr. Schadenfreude would translate as Dr. Gloat. ] Jarbaby is confused, and thought that Schadenfruede meant “pleasure in other people’s misery”, and has in fact told people that. She feels stupid now. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/10 "2001-08-09T20:07:23Z")
:whispers to **jar** : [sub]It’s kind of the same thing, sugar. You’re right.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![shannybonanny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@shannybonanny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shannybonanny)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/11 "2001-08-09T20:38:22Z")
All I know is when I got to the Thunderpants part I almost peed my good-ole Hanes her Ways. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/12 "2001-08-09T21:00:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*What worries jarbaby is that she may somehow drop all of her other SDMB crushes for someone with a name like Schadenfreude, whether he farts a lot or not. \*\* I’m debating whether or not I should mention exactly how German _MY_ last name is. ---
**Author:** ![Tyklfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tyklfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tyklfe)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/13 "2001-08-09T21:03:12Z")
Hmmm, I think I can safely file this right up under, “Not a single chance in Hell.” ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/14 "2001-08-09T21:30:48Z")
Note to all English bedwetting types: I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! And you can bet I’ll do it with no activated charcoal filter. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/15 "2001-08-09T22:25:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*What worries jarbaby is that she may somehow drop all of her other SDMB crushes for someone with a name like Schadenfreude, whether he farts a lot or not. \*\* The important question is, does he smoke? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2001, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/16 "2001-08-10T00:25:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Superdude \* > I’m debating whether or not I should mention exactly how German _MY_ last name is. Yeah, welcome to the club:-) The only part of me that isn’t Irish is my last name;) [sub]With Patrick as a first name and O’Bryan for a middle name . . . [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2001, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/17 "2001-08-10T00:39:22Z")
There are so many Suspicious Persons on the American Side of the Planet! So be it. You win. Schadenfreude is naturally a Nom De Plume for another Person, this Third Party is Herr Angst who is a Failed Bookmaker from Crouch End, which is in East London all the time. Angst never has any Punters in his Shop because he does not allow any Bets on the Premises. He gets around to thinking of the Terrible Consequences of a Losing Day and he cannot Function as Bookmaker. This Herr Angst, he should not be in the Bookmaking Business. Although if you examine the concept existentially, I don’t suppose he is. I regret Enormously arriving on this Medium of yours using a False Identity. So now the Truth Is Out and I fear that La Jarbaby will lose her Crushes on Schadenfreude. For this reason I will remain Schadenfreude I think, rather than Angst (the only other choice) even though Angst is a Shorter Name. I hope I do not Worry Unduly about the Choice I have just made here. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2001, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/18 "2001-08-10T00:51:21Z")
Jarbaby is going to stick with Coldfire and possibly herr Superdude. no offense, but I’m all stocked up on nutjobs 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Night\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@The\_Night\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Night_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2001, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/19 "2001-08-10T00:55:23Z")
I gas about 25 times a day, and they smell really bad. I need to import me some of those underpants! ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2001, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636/20 "2001-08-10T01:01:19Z")
Any body else thinking of Damion Runyon(sp)? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-underpants-from-america/75636.md?page=2)