‘Counting Butts and Staring at Stripes’

Our reader and commentator Hermione wrote to us about a newspaper article with this title.

The article is about a nasty court case, so I won’t link to it, but the reporter writes as though he has a hidden spanking agenda. Here’s what Hermione noticed:

The aforementioned butts are cigarette butts the reporter counted on the ground in the outdoor smoking area, to pass the time while waiting for the verdict. And the stripes were all that could be seen on the video monitors providing the news media with a view of the action in the courtroom.

Other words of that sort within the story were, in order:

rump
admonished
brow-beaten
flummoxed
beaten
stress
victim
holding cells
knitting needles (no sorry, that’s just silly)

LOL Yeah, spank me with that knitting needle!

Grim topic notwithstanding, I thought this was as fine a startle as one can hope to find in a mainstream paper. Thanks, Hermione!

10 thoughts on “‘Counting Butts and Staring at Stripes’

  • 17 December, 2007 at 12:35 pm
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    Having to *count*? I, for one, maintain that it is always polite to cast one’s eye over the stripes that one has just administered… but never to forget to how many butts one has adminstered them.

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  • 17 December, 2007 at 8:59 pm
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    I love it when Abel goes on holiday…can’t you just sense that he’s had a pina colada or two…or three….?

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  • 17 December, 2007 at 9:22 pm
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    Hey, plastic knitting needles work real good! Tried it.

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  • 17 December, 2007 at 10:15 pm
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    I also noted that the article in question ended with a comment about Twister. How very… Lowewood 😉

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  • 18 December, 2007 at 2:25 am
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    Haron have you SEEN some of those knitting needles? They can get BIG. I wouldn’t tempt fate.

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  • 18 December, 2007 at 2:34 am
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    Oh, great, give him more implement ideas :)

    (Luckily, I own only metal knitting needles.)

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  • 18 December, 2007 at 7:10 am
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    Haron: You’re in Malaysia, dear one. Knitting needles are the least of your worries!!

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  • 18 December, 2007 at 11:57 am
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    My knitting needles are all metal, but they are far too short for self administered spankings

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  • 18 December, 2007 at 4:13 pm
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    Speaking of metal rods, before I was married and was staying in a rental apartment at one point in the past, they had a metal rod there for some reason, which I often used for self-spanking – it worked but could get severe. I wonder if I’d like to try a steel cane type thing at some point again now that I have someone else to spank me.

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  • 18 December, 2007 at 10:31 pm
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    Now, Amber, you know you’re just going to have to get your husband to try it on you. Soon. And to report back here 😉

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