Well, as they say… if a joke needs to be explained, it’s not really a joke anymore 
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New Yorker laundry symbols: I didn’t think it was supposed to be deep: they are sometimes printed very small, and deciphering them is kind of like a foreign language even when you can see them…? Yet somehow they are ubiquitous and there is an expectation that we all know them since they are on pretty much every clothing item’s tag.
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I bought a wetsuit (yes neoprene) a while back and it had the “do not iron” symbol printed inside the collar.
I could not stop laughing for a good 5 minutes!
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As someone who has taken a picture of the laundry symbols on a tag and then enlarged the photo to see them, I got the eye chart one.
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During our last move, I purged a bunch of stuff since it would be a major downsize. To do that, I had to sort through lots of old stuff in bins. I found this entry in one of my daughter’s elementary school era journals.
I took a pic of it while sorting and sent it to her. She sent it back to me a few weeks ago out of the blue 
I’m seriously going to have it printed on a big canvas and hang it in my house!
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That is much better than my initial thought of;
If your happy and you know it…
Brace your meat.
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Definitely do that, @LeastComplicated.
We found this one prior to our last move. From the date, our son was six when he drew it:
Perhaps we should have seen the Army in his future? 
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I think that was a pretty big hint!
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Hmmm. my S was into dinosaurs and chess. He lost interest in both shortly thereafter. D was excellent at sketching and drawing. I wasn’t surprised she chose cinema. S always loved math and building, so engineering made sense. He also loved selling and was an excellent businessman in 2nd grade—be earns a good living buying & reselling for himself.
delete. Inquiry answered.
Sorry to bash an entire gender, but that comment ^^^^ is like so many conversations I have with men at cocktail parties . . . . Not all of them, to be sure.
“Myyyy, what effective beer goggles you have!”
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