# Today's semi-comprehensible Ebay listing brought to from Uruypinsk, Volgogradskaja **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443 "2005-10-02T13:10:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/1 "2005-10-02T13:10:35Z")
[hand knit socks](http://cgi.ebay.com/Hand-Knit-Men-s-SOCKS-WOOL-DOG-100_W0QQitemZ8339013973QQcategoryZ11511QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/2 "2005-10-02T13:23:13Z")
I’m confused. Are socks from the dog wool necessary for ALL! or just for people with sick legs? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/3 "2005-10-02T13:24:31Z")
Sombody set us up the socks. ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/4 "2005-10-02T13:52:04Z")
**Shirley Ujest** , pray tell us, how did you happen to come across\* that \* eBay listing? ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/5 "2005-10-02T15:02:58Z")
What about those poor, poor doggies? Will they end up hairless in Russia in the dead of winter? Sure, the seller will sell a few pairs of socks and capitalism will rear it’s ugly head and there’ll be a whole population of hairless doggies roaming the tundra and freezing their hairless butts off!!! The horror!!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Mooney252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/6 "2005-10-02T15:02:58Z")
. . . so someone is probably needing some “hair of the dog.” ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/7 "2005-10-02T17:10:20Z")
Wow. What an odd prejudice I’ve just discovered I have. I’d pet that dog all day long, but I wouldn’t put those nasty dog wool socks on my feet if you payed me. eeeeewwww. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/8 "2005-10-02T17:22:25Z")
"…remarkable dog wool - warm and useful (The Caucasian sheep-dog). " So _that’s_ what “sheep dog” means? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/9 "2005-10-02T18:11:39Z")
The real question is: when they get sweaty, do they smell like wet dog? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/10 "2005-10-02T19:07:48Z")
I burning your socks. ---
**Author:** ![SusanStoHelit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@SusanStoHelit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SusanStoHelit)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/11 "2005-10-02T19:56:03Z")
How do you get 43 sizes? Is she knitting for Yetis too? ---
**Author:** ![SusanStoHelit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@SusanStoHelit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SusanStoHelit)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/12 "2005-10-02T19:58:32Z")
And from [astro](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=337873)’s thread, at least it’s not a [bikini](http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue52/xtra.barber.html). ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/13 "2005-10-02T19:58:48Z")
That dog looks mad. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/14 "2005-10-02T21:28:08Z")
I found it during my usual cruising for hand knit thingies (as I desperately want to know how to knit and have this deep seeded/seated desire to knit socks that I cannot explain as I can barely crochet two pot holders the same size.) and I found this woman’s ebay sale. It is genius, really. With the amazing powers of Google, I found [hand spinning your dog hair](http://www.mdnpd.com/pd/default.htm) and other assorted goodies that make the average person go WTF? I really want to learn to knit now, then I shall raise the furriest dogs evar and profit from their shedding! Mhhhaaaaaahahahahhahaha! ---
**Author:** ![lorinada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5e925/32.png) [@lorinada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorinada)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/15 "2005-10-02T21:59:42Z")
Hmm. Imagine that. Instead of throwing away vacuum bags full of cat hair every week, I should have been saving it and knitting mittens or something. Kitten mittens, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/16 "2005-10-02T22:41:32Z")
> [@lorinada](#): > > Hmm. Imagine that. Instead of throwing away vacuum bags full of cat hair every week, I should have been saving it and knitting mittens or something. Kitten mittens, maybe. Nah. They’ll just get lost. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/17 "2005-10-02T22:51:01Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > That dog looks mad. No, the poor thing looks _very_ sad. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![singlefile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@singlefile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singlefile)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/18 "2005-10-02T22:58:54Z")
As much as I would love a pair of those, my sock drawer overfloweth. However… if you figure out the secret to knitting, that would interest me. I can sew anything, and I do mean anything. I’ve done parade costumes, wedding gowns, a golf bag, and even saddle bags for a crotch rocket, but I cannot knit. I start out okay and then it just gets tighter and tighter till I can’t get the needle in the holes. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/19 "2005-10-03T01:04:53Z")
> [@lorinada](#): > > Hmm. Imagine that. Instead of throwing away vacuum bags full of cat hair every week, I should have been saving it and knitting mittens or something. Kitten mittens, maybe. Ouch and errrrrggh!! Kitten mittens are a specially designed instrument of torture. I’m sure I have a pair waiting for me in the icier regions of hell. (devilsknew, allergic to cats since 1988.) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443/20 "2005-10-03T02:32:29Z")
> [@lorinada](#): > > Hmm. Imagine that. Instead of throwing away vacuum bags full of cat hair every week, I should have been saving it and knitting mittens or something. Kitten mittens, maybe. Then you can walk around all winter with a little pussy warming your hands. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-semi-comprehensible-ebay-listing-brought-to-from-uruypinsk-volgogradskaja/324443.md?page=2)