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Luv2Bretired 02-10-2020 12:03 PM

What do colorblind folks do if they cannot distinguish one color loofa from another?

PugMom 02-10-2020 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1716472)
Oh my! Oh deah! Oh deah! I hope that rumor that went around here a decade or so ago is not back.

First, I will tell you what those loofahs really mean. AND THEN I will tell you what used to be said — but only if you promise not to believe that scandalous rumor:

Those loofahs are truly and merely to indicate where the car is parked.

I don’t have a loofah on my car. But as the owner of a white car with Florida plates, I can tell you that not paying perfect attention to where I had parked has caused me to end up pushing my grocery cart aimlessly through Publix parking lot, while trying to look confident — like I know whereinthehell I parked that Honda.

BUT somehow, somewhere, a long time ago, a rumor was started that said those loofah’d cars belonged to swingers, swappers, a key-party group. Not true. I have NEVER once seen anything unseemly in the backseats of those cars.

That salacious loofah rumor went around about the same time as the one that said to never wear red shoes while sitting at an outside bar in TV or people would think you were a hooker. (That rumor was so long ago that Brownwood had not even been built yet and LSL City Fire had a different name.)

All righty then, now, I have cleared all that up. Aren’t you glad you asked. :)

i always thought they were for helping you get the lovebug debris off the front windshield, :1rotfl:

PugMom 02-10-2020 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1716472)
I don’t have a loofah on my car. But as the owner of a white car with Florida plates, I can tell you that not paying perfect attention to where I had parked has caused me to end up pushing my grocery cart aimlessly through Publix parking lot, while trying to look confident — like I know whereinthehell I parked that Honda.

Next time try this:
Get out of your car and stand behind it. Take your phone w/camera and take a picture straight up the row of cars toward the strip mall or store and check it out before you exit the store The photo will show what store you are parked in front of. You won't lose your car again. Of course, periodically scrub/delete the pix from your phone

FredF

it's embarrassing, but i set off my alarm on the keytag, LOL. after a few LARGE honks, i'm good to go. yes, people stare, but it works

Boomer 02-10-2020 01:17 PM

Boomer as rumor-controller or washer woman. Gotta laugh
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1716472)
Oh my! Oh deah! Oh deah! I hope that rumor that went around here a decade or so ago is not back.

First, I will tell you what those loofahs really mean. AND THEN I will tell you what used to be said — but only if you promise not to believe that scandalous rumor:

Those loofahs are truly and merely to indicate where the car is parked.

I don’t have a loofah on my car. But as the owner of a white car with Florida plates, I can tell you that not paying perfect attention to where I had parked has caused me to end up pushing my grocery cart aimlessly through Publix parking lot, while trying to look confident — like I know whereinthehell I parked that Honda.

BUT somehow, somewhere, a long time ago, a rumor was started that said those loofah’d cars belonged to swingers, swappers, a key-party group. Not true. I have NEVER once seen anything unseemly in the backseats of those cars.

That salacious loofah rumor went around about the same time as the one that said to never wear red shoes while sitting at an outside bar in TV or people would think you were a hooker. (That rumor was so long ago that Brownwood had not even been built yet and LSL City Fire had a different name.)

All righty then, now, I have cleared all that up. Aren’t you glad you asked. :)



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Originally Posted by Spoiler (Post 1716831)
Hmmm, and now I’m in a dilemma...

My problem is that recently I bought some cool red shoes because they match the color of my car.... and now I read this thread...

Good grief... :ohdear:

Sign me,

Not a hooker in Monarch Grove



FINALLY! A thread where we can laugh a little.

(TV is so big and so well-known that the rumors will never stop. It is a unique place. Nothing like it anywhere. Just gotta laugh.)

More than once, I have found myself putting that STD rumor in perspective:

You should hear me explain how an increase based on percentages can be relatively meaningless. Example: If there are 2 cases, followed by a total of 3 cases, then you tell me — what is the percentage increase that can be claimed. Just ask Big Pharma how those studies can skew things when touting percentages of increases or decreases —whatever works.

That ridiculous STD rumor grabbed tabloidy headlines more than 10 years ago.

We visited friends in a retirement community in SC, and that was the first thing they — and their neighbors — wanted to hear about. I defended TV’s reputation by tediously demonstrating percentage math — over wine and cheese.

The rumors about TV will never end so we might as well laugh.

Also — re. my white car with the Florida plates, though I have lost it before, I really do usually do that thing with lining up my parking spot with the building and taking a picture with my mind.

I always get a pinstripe on my car because, not only do I like pinstripes, but my pinstripe, more than once, has saved me from pulling on the wrong car door handle. Before my pinstriped car, I once terrified some guy who was sitting in his car, not mine.

AND:

Spoiler! I have to tellya — You, Sir, have a gift for wit. Your post and that picture of your shoes made me snort, in a most unladylike manner.

My advice: I think you will be OK — just be sure not to wear those gorgeous new red shoes with booty shorts.

Velvet 02-10-2020 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 1716898)
I tried a few years ago, but let's do it again with 2018 data from the CDC and Florida Dept. of Health:

Chlamydia:

National rate: 539.9 cases/100K population
Florida rate: 499.0 cases/100K population
Sumter Co. rate: 186.6 cases/100K population

True chlamydia capital of the US----St. Louis , Mo. with 1283 cases/100K population

Gonorrhea:

National rate: 179.1 cases/100K population
Florida rate: 156.0 cases/100K population
Sumter Co. rate: 85.0 cases/100K population

True GC capital of the US----Montgomery Co., Alabama----563.0 cases/100K population

I couldn't find data specific to TV alone, but given the average age of the population vs. the surrounding areas, it is likely the rates in TV are even lower than Sumter Co. as a whole.

End of myth.

This is wonderful information! I can’t tell you how many times people made fun of me for buying in TV ... “the sex capitol of Florida” .... my parents lived here for years, I knew it couldn’t be true. But now I have the ammunition to deal with those rumors.

Nucky 02-10-2020 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by prntxpresn (Post 1716781)
Yes, SEX

With a partner! :1rotfl: :ohdear:

Luv2Bretired 02-10-2020 03:26 PM

Do they sell Viagra blue loofas?

OrangeBlossomBaby 02-10-2020 03:46 PM

The silver colored loofa means you have successfully affixed your hair extension, and are now eligible for a discount on a fancy product that will give you argyrosis if you drink enough of it - and if you buy three, we'll give you your choice of two out of five of our exclusive supplements free, for the price of the other three.

(of course you could just pop a Centrum, wear a wig, and use a decent moisturizing foundation with SPF of 15 or better but let's not spoil the fantasy, hm?)

Topspinmo 02-10-2020 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by LarryParnelli@gmail.com (Post 1716631)
So, where do the girls with the red shoes hangout? Inquiring minds want to know.


Why? You got money to burn? :duck:

Topspinmo 02-10-2020 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by ColdNoMore (Post 1716890)
I don't think it's just a rumor.

My cult leader has told me that it's true, so no amount of facts you may come up with proving otherwise...will ever change my mind.


You wish!1:popcorn:

Topspinmo 02-10-2020 04:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spoiler (Post 1716831)
Hmmm, and now I’m in a dilemma...

My problem is that recently I bought some cool red shoes because they match the color of my car.... and now I read this thread...

Good grief... :ohdear:

Sign me,

Not a hooker in Monarch Grove

I just brought nice all red Fila tennis shoes 👞, I wonder why I was getting funny look like they were sizing me up on courts. :icon_wink:

jenistaf 02-10-2020 05:28 PM

For those claiming to have parking problems - to throw off the rest of these inquiring minds searching for the mysterious loofah code... In addition to suggestions already made - just take a photo with your phone.
Which works beautifully unless you forget that you forgot to take a picture today and you end up desperately searching for your car using yesterday's photo.

Spoiler 02-11-2020 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1716967)

Spoiler! ....Your post and that picture of your shoes made me snort, in a most unladylike manner.

My advice: I think you will be OK — just be sure not to wear those gorgeous new red shoes with booty shorts.

Well, thank heavens, finally someone with an ounce of fashion sense... I only wore them tiny pants once or twice up to that square in Spanish Springs and I really didn't feel that comfortable in them anyhow. I guess I’ll give them back to my cousin Bobby. (They were his first anyhow...)

-Spoiler


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