The Cult of Snuggie: Warming the Cockles of Our Hearts
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Where did he get this idea? A Snuggie has never been on my wish-list. I have too much fun laughing at the commercials to be a person who wears one.
Still, it was very thoughtful, and I appreciate his choice of designer leopard print. I modeled it around the room to be polite... and have scarcely taken it off since. If I'm home, I'm rockin' the Snuggie, unless my smitten cat has beat me to it. Jackpot thinks that thing is his mama, and burrows in it wherever I leave it.
So now that I'm a convert into the Cult of Snuggie, I went on flickr to try and justify myself. Come on — It's not as if this pop culture phenomenon can be ignored. I wasn't surprised to find a ton of people showing off their Snuggies. But I sure wasn't expecting this silly blanket to warm the cockles of my heart...
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| But as I was looking at photos, I realized there's evidence the so-called "Cult of Snuggie" goes much, much deeper than that. Somehow this campy pop culture punchline reminds us of what's important. Wouldn't it be something if this thing we love making fun of actually represented the best of humankind? |
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 for all. All photos courtesy of flickr Creative Commons Service. Please click the images for more from these photographers. |
I'm almost speechless. I can't. Believe. You Own. The Leopard Print Snuggie. The very thing that Dan and I have constantly made fun of since first spotting the commercials oh-so-many months ago!
Although I appreciate the fact that Snuggies might very well save the planet and bring us poor fractured humans together, I'm afraid that Dan and I cannot be part of the Cult of Snuggie. We'd be laughing so hard, we'd probably hyperventilate.
The funniest thing about the Snuggie commercials is the idea that it's just SO HARD to answer the phone when you're under a blanket. Really? I've never really had that problem. But, on the other hand, they sure look warm... especially when the Snuggie cultists are sitting around a campfire (which seems like a fire hazard, but that's just me...)
Wear it with pride, girlfriend! You're in the cult now. Guess it's better than being a Scientologist.
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I felt exactly as you do about a week ago. But a person can change. Plus, Jackpot the cat is my new best friend. He thinks it's his mama.
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Ooh, that's something I hadn't thought of. I wonder how Ruby (the cat) would take my wearing a leopard-print Snuggie. She's already all over me at night... would I wake up with her on my face? Hmm...
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