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Your niece Katie seems pretty awesome. If it's any consolation, I am pretty positive that at five years old, I wouldn't have been able to define the world "gay."

Well if that isn't the best damn Christmas present..!

Every child that age gets their Uncle soap on a rope. Even straight uncles.

Just be glad she was aware enough to get you gay soap.

This is hilarious. At least it was Irish Spring.

True Napoleon, however, there is a quite obvious difference in the KINDS of soap-on-a-rope doled out to gay & straight uncles.

For example, mine always come from Avon or Brut.

Er... *Wasn't* Irish Spring

I have much to look forward to when my nephew turns five... and then his little sister too.

Brut?!?! Ga-wrrrroooosss!

Soap on a rope is associated with gayness? Why?

how odd...an Adrian Ryan post that didn't make me want to throw up.

it was actually...sweet!

dee-sturbing.

I dunno, I suppose it has to do with where you hang the rope.

L'Occitane is THE GAY.

Megan W asks:

"Soap on a rope is associated with gayness? Why?"

Great question, Megan W! I asked the same when i was 7--the first time i heard a confusing soap on a rope gay reference, and my mother, not quite so liberal then, explained rather tersely, "The rope is so you don't drop the soap in the shower---so the gays can't getcha." as in, when you bend over to pick it up, they will molest your exposed behind.

charming. i know.

so really, soap-on-a-rope is used to ward off the gays, which some how made it gay... my dad had soap on a rope growing up; it wasn't very successful in warding off the gayness in me :)

I like L'Occitane and I don't like grimey soap dishes. Good gift!

Please tell me that you dated the one-and-only notorious "Mr. X" from the local journalists' sexstravaganza a few years back; The mind reels...

this is obnoxious of me, but i think you meant "boor", rather than "bore".

cute story otherwise :-)

Awesome story.

This is the cutest post of 2008 thus far. Go Adrian's niece!

But the acid test is: does your niece correctly pronounce l'Occitane ? Otherwise - no soap...

I always pronounce it with a Marseilles accent, in mid-18th century French, what do you do?

(as he waits for @20 to realize there are many French dialects and they vary by time and class as well ...)

My son was thrilled my sister got me a cool bar of soap for Xmas, cause he thinks it smells nice. You don't have to be gay to get cool soap ...

I imagine the same reasoning pertains to those of us who love and consume "Polly-otchy pizza" - so many dialects, so little pepperoni. You don't have to be straight to get cool irony.

They didn't speak French in Marseille in the 18th c. They spoke Oc. For the most part.

My niece asked what being gay was (she was four at the time, sweet little girl). So I showed her a couple of videos with fisting, water sports and other things about being gay.

She has such a good education from her Uncle!!

@24
wow, your a douchebag

Well with a name like Mr X he's gonna have a hard time sustaining relationships, he'll overhear people talking about Adrian's X, he'll think they're saying Adrian's ex, he gets plunged into doubt about the future of the relationship and so on. It's all very sad.

@20 Soap Nazi!