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Size 20 Underwear Used as Fire Blanket Saves Home From Burning
fox news ^ | 1-2-08 | fox news

Posted on 01/02/2008 9:04:19 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB

A family home in England was saved from burning down after roly-poly mother Jenny Marsey’s size 20 underwear was used as a fire blanket.

Son John, 18, was frying bread when the pan caught fire, sending flames up to the ceiling.

Resourceful cousin Darren Lines, 23, grabbed Marsey’s panties from a pile of laundry, soaked them in water and flung them over the flames.

Marsey, 53, of Hartlepool, Cleveland, said: “I’m lucky my knickers are like a parachute! If they were skimpy they’d have been no use.”

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TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: britain; fire; underpants; underwear
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Hillary's undapants could be dropped on a wildfire...
1 posted on 01/02/2008 9:04:24 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB
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To: WOBBLY BOB
oh my!

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2 posted on 01/02/2008 9:06:29 AM PST by digger48
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To: WOBBLY BOB

3 posted on 01/02/2008 9:07:33 AM PST by jdm
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To: digger48
GUILTY!

4 posted on 01/02/2008 9:07:59 AM PST by jdm
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To: digger48

Is that her underwear before or after it was used to put out the fire?


5 posted on 01/02/2008 9:08:53 AM PST by jdm
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To: jdm

It would be ironic if they were used to put out a bacon fire.


6 posted on 01/02/2008 9:09:46 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (I think I'll buy everyone a carbon credit for Christmas.)
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To: jdm

If those were before the fire, she had quite of few hash marks on the skivies!


8 posted on 01/02/2008 9:13:25 AM PST by longhorn too
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frying bread when the pan caught fire

Ah! A clue....
9 posted on 01/02/2008 9:14:40 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

That reminds me. I need to put on my January underwear.


10 posted on 01/02/2008 9:20:12 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Nothing like kicking off the New Year with a smoking hot panty thread.


11 posted on 01/02/2008 9:30:35 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: digger48
These ladies agree...

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12 posted on 01/02/2008 9:47:05 AM PST by JRios1968 (Don't mess with tigers, for you are crunchy and chewy...)
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To: JRios1968

The Jena 6? Who are the other two guilty parties?


13 posted on 01/02/2008 10:48:12 AM PST by VRWCmember (Fred Thompson 2008! Taking America Back for Conservatives!)
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To: VRWCmember
Ok, this should be clearer

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14 posted on 01/02/2008 11:04:21 AM PST by JRios1968 (Don't mess with tigers, for you are crunchy and chewy...)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

LOL!


15 posted on 01/02/2008 11:19:31 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Well, I’ll give her this...she’s a good sport and must have a really good sense of humor! We didn’t need to see the actual panties, though.


16 posted on 01/02/2008 11:29:17 AM PST by Nea Wood (I'm not a bad Christian because I refuse to join you in giving other people's stuff away.)
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To: stylecouncilor

ping


17 posted on 01/02/2008 3:47:08 PM PST by windcliff
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Now that's funny.

Hillary's undapants could be dropped on a wildfire...

That would've smothered the CA wildfires in no time!
18 posted on 01/02/2008 6:25:44 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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“I’m lucky my knickers are like a parachute! If they were skimpy they’d have been no use.”

Thats the spirit, love!

19 posted on 01/02/2008 6:32:31 PM PST by OCC
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To: G8 Diplomat

Now that would be an ecological disaster of Biblical proportions.


20 posted on 01/02/2008 6:38:12 PM PST by festus (Fred Thompson '08)
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