Found at Pike Place Market. Bought because it was so bad that it was awesome.
Feb 27 2012
I own the best pot holder ever
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Feb 27 2012
Found at Pike Place Market. Bought because it was so bad that it was awesome.
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Cafeeine
February 27, 2012 at 3:53 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Curiously, reading the post title, that’s not the kind of pot holder I imagined.
I also can’t help noticing he has a spare hand in his back pocket
Brownian
February 27, 2012 at 3:59 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Count me among the disappointed novelty roach clip aficionados too.
crookedmongoose
February 27, 2012 at 4:00 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Looks to me more like he has a second hand GROWING OUT OF HIS WRIST.
Creepy addition to an otherwise exploitatively hot image of a classic “man’s man”. Well played, Jen. Well played.
David
February 27, 2012 at 4:16 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Thats three, at least, lured in by the sensasionalist and ultimately dissapointing headline.
What is it?
Cafeeine
February 27, 2012 at 5:01 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Its a kitchen pot holder, used so as you don’t burn your hands.
Jen
February 27, 2012 at 5:03 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I… wasn’t trying to be sensationalist. It’s a pot holder. That’s the name.
Sachi Wilson
February 27, 2012 at 5:06 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
And you found this while escorting potential new grad students around Seattle, didn’t you? :-D
Pierce R. Butler
February 27, 2012 at 5:13 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“FLUSH END CAP”?
Somebody please explain this to me, so I don’t embarrass myself by making a lewd proposition when I’m just trying to buy plumbing supplies…
Epistaxis
February 27, 2012 at 5:30 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Title: “Hot Stuff”
Sili
February 27, 2012 at 6:27 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
»Flush end cap«
What you need to do to avoid Santorum when having ghey sex with Brownian.
tort
February 27, 2012 at 6:40 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Wait, is that meant to be a severed hand sticking out of his pocket? I’m completely as a loss as to what kind of tool that is supposed to be.
I for one thought this was exactly what it sounded like. Perhaps that’s just my sheltered life.
Bill Door
February 27, 2012 at 6:42 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Ghastly. Being charred by hot cookie sheets will only make it look better.
Prof. Bleen
February 27, 2012 at 6:55 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Is that a four-by-four, or are you just glad to see me?
He’s half buff, half skeleton, and has a serious case of Alfred E. Neuman going on with those eyes at completely different heights.
Randomfactor
February 27, 2012 at 6:55 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Sorry, Pierce, but when you’re dealing with male and female connectors and pipe nipples, it’s inevitabobble.
Randomfactor
February 27, 2012 at 6:56 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Pretty sure it’s an unused glove. No glove, no love.
Anonymous Atheist
February 27, 2012 at 7:08 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I think the ‘third hand’ is supposed to be a glove, with a bad choice of colors.
That looks like a handmade quilted potholder; the artwork was a small part of a large piece of fabric, likely sold from bolts over a yard wide. You can see little bits of other construction guys on the top and left edges. Imagine what the complete design could’ve looked like! ;-)
fullyladenswallow
February 27, 2012 at 7:10 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Actually, that might make a very nice design for a stained-glass window.
fullyladenswallow
February 27, 2012 at 7:25 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
A picture and diagram:
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=21948
and if you want something more suggestive:
http://www.wagnercompanies.com/end_caps.aspx
Screamer77
February 27, 2012 at 7:50 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
what’s with the extra hand?!
Ali
February 27, 2012 at 7:52 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I thought he was carrying a large piece of bacon.
Utakata, pink pigtailed Gnome of death
February 27, 2012 at 10:46 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Well I guess it’s better than if it where a dakimakura.
Fitzgerald
February 27, 2012 at 11:12 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I admit that for a second I thought that was supposed to be Jesus carrying the cross. Would have made it even more surreal.
Sathya
February 28, 2012 at 12:09 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
So glad I wasn’t the only one.
fullyladenswallow
February 28, 2012 at 12:32 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Actually, that also had crossed my mind for just a split second. And it sort of fits, considering Jesus was said to be a carpenter and all. Even more surreal, would be taking Ali’s (#12) bacon concept and working that in also: A hard-hat Jesus carrying his own bacon-slab crucifix! I think Dali would have loved it.
Irreverend Bastard
February 28, 2012 at 1:26 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
You just described me!
Ditto.
Peter
February 28, 2012 at 2:34 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
It’s a fine line between awesome and awful!
Brakeman
February 28, 2012 at 4:08 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Have you taken them to Seattle’s gum wall yet?
Google it if you haven’t heard of it. You should post a “Jen” picture in front of it..
Adrian
February 28, 2012 at 4:09 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Us UKians call it an oven glove.
David
February 28, 2012 at 4:54 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Ah, an oven glove, thanks
David
February 28, 2012 at 5:06 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
OK Jen, but you have an international, and aparently, mostly oven glove heads, readership and although we know most of the (wrong) names you Americans use for things its always interesting to see another.
David
February 28, 2012 at 5:07 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Thanks Adrian
Predator Handshake
February 28, 2012 at 6:32 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
That guy’s physique reminds me of Fitness Celebrity John Basedow. What ever happened to him?
Svlad Cjelli
February 28, 2012 at 7:32 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
That’s not even an ovenglove/ovenmitt. It’s a grytlapp.
And I still guessed what “pot holder” means.
Is there another kind of pot holder I should know about?
VikingWarriorPrincess
February 28, 2012 at 7:56 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Grytlapp is what it looks like to me, way to small for an oven mitt. And it brings a whole new level of meaning to awesome.
How can you walk with a tool belt hanging at groin level?
Manphiso
February 28, 2012 at 8:05 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
We have wrong names? Its not even a glove though. Its a pot holder. Its just a thick square of cloth.
Now if it was an oven mit, then at least we’d be on the same wavelength and could have the whole mit v. glove discussion.
hkdharmon
February 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yeah, the UKers may have us on the whole “shop v store” controversy, but I think we USers win in that “pot holder” is a much more reasonable name for a non-glove item used for holding pots than “oven glove”.
Al Stefanelli
February 28, 2012 at 8:52 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
My first thought on the title was, “Jennifer got a new bong?”
Pierce R. Butler
February 28, 2012 at 9:02 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Oh Gawd – that Wagner Companies’ “Volute End”…
I may not get to sleep tonight!
Adrian
February 28, 2012 at 9:09 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
An oven glove can be used for both jobs, a pot holder not so much.
Adrian
February 28, 2012 at 9:12 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Wow! 39 comments and rising. All over a padded cloth.(OK so Jen finds the workman cute).
Anonymous Atheist
February 28, 2012 at 10:04 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
People thought it was referring to some cannabis (= ‘pot’) usage accessory.
fullyladenswallow
February 28, 2012 at 10:04 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yes, I can really see the draw to that configuration, but it’s the drive-on caps for me!
richardelguru
February 28, 2012 at 10:40 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
USAians get a lot of things like this wrong. I’ve been over here in the US for over 30 years and I still can’t get the upside-down light switches!
F
February 28, 2012 at 1:15 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Even the ones that aren’t gloves?
F
February 28, 2012 at 1:17 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Flush isn’t a verb here. Work with it.
F
February 28, 2012 at 1:20 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
It’s… fantastic!.
fastlane
February 28, 2012 at 3:01 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Looks like it’s time for another trip down to Pikes Place.
'Tis Himself, OM
February 28, 2012 at 3:09 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I didn’t know Tom of Finland made potholders.
April
February 28, 2012 at 6:28 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Sir, I tips me hat to you. I would offer you an Internet, but I fear you may have already run out of room to store them all.
Azkyroth
February 28, 2012 at 7:40 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m not sure I agree that frustrating people who insist that arbitrary Britainese conventions are objectively right counts as “getting it wrong.” That seems like a worthwhile goal to me.
Azkyroth
February 28, 2012 at 7:42 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Welcome to the wonderful world of oblivious Britainese pretend-cultural-privilege. Don’t step in the gratuitous vowels.
Svlad Cjelli
February 29, 2012 at 2:04 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Ah, of course! I’m out of touch with the fashion-industry.
Giliell, not to be confused with The Borg
February 29, 2012 at 5:24 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Ok, third unused hand, trousers falling off his ass, no shirt, where on earth is worplace safety when you need them?
Holms
February 29, 2012 at 5:57 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Don’t tell me I’m the only one that thought it was a chicken foot… I am ashamed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVW4fDOgah4&feature=related
a miasma of incandescent plasma
February 29, 2012 at 7:06 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Very carefully
smacr
February 29, 2012 at 8:00 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m impressed with the wood he’s showing off.
=8)-DX
February 29, 2012 at 12:08 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Too gay. (Which is also why it is awesome)
Katalina
February 29, 2012 at 12:23 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Forget Dali, *I* love it!!!
James Croft
March 1, 2012 at 8:02 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I have a bunch of these too – and I LOVE THEM! =D
JohnnieCanuck
March 2, 2012 at 9:39 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
o.O
supernova
March 4, 2012 at 10:13 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
American light switches are upside-down?!
crowepps
March 5, 2012 at 9:53 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
There is always at least one ‘novelty’ fabric available with hunks — sometimes in a fabric suitable for making an ironing board cover. Here’s a website featuring yard goods with this and an assortment of other patterns:
http://www.equilter.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_main.html?catid=286
Timothy (TRiG)
March 12, 2012 at 12:39 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Now that is the perfect response.
TRiG.
Timothy (TRiG)
March 12, 2012 at 12:40 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Now, when I saw “pot holder” I assumed you meant a pot grab, such as might be used when you’re camping and, for reasons of space, are using pots without handles.
TRiG.
workout products
June 13, 2012 at 7:18 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Thanks a lot for the article post.