Someone left the cap loose on the White Out!!!!

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And now its all over, yes you guessed it, the crotch of the new brown pants I was planing on wearing to my library job. Slow painful death to the person who doesn't put the cap on tight!!!

So how do I get this stuff off them!!

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 11 November 2002 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

tongue (prob yrs won't reach)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 11 November 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone left the cake out in the rain...

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Jarassic Park is frightening in the dark

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 11 November 2002 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

White spirit.

Or at a pinch piss on 'em.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 11 November 2002 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

What is white out?

― alix (alix), Monday, 11 November 2002 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Special Peanut Butter. You use it to correct mistakes in journals and such.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 11 November 2002 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

White out = Tipex ... probably THE single most confusing transatlantic translation I ever had to face. Tipex? Why TIPEX?!?!? Like white out wasn't self explanatory enough...

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

...invented by Mike Nesmith's mum (although I assume you already know that - it crops up in many a pub quiz).

― Jez (Jez), Monday, 11 November 2002 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Obviously it is not self explanatory! Tippex, however, is obvious. You 'tip' the 'ex'. DO YOU SEE? No, me either.

― alix (alix), Monday, 11 November 2002 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

white out! like rubbing things out ... but with white! Classic!

Also, erm, refers to certain metereological phenomenan associated with bad, terrible blizzard conditions. And crap post-grunge bands who were only ever big in Japan, except for that one Levis ad.

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

You have to use about a dozen bottles of the thinners liquid that you get with Tippex (or SNOPAKE, as it is sometimes called!) You soak the Tippex-soaked material in thinners and dab it off as best you can. It takes ages, makes your clothes smell funny, but it does work. I speak as one who knows.

Good luck!

― C J (C J), Monday, 11 November 2002 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

SNOPAQUE?!?!? Bwah hah hah hah hah!

OK, you know what bothers me about whiteout? Back when I worked at the ad agency, we had this whole vast profusion of whiteout in every colour of the rainbow... you know, for when you are working on different coloured paper. Blue, green, pink, yellow, etc. Yet still, even though it's coloured, I carried on calling it, for example "can you hand me the blue whiteout, please?"

So I suppose tipex makes more sense under those circumstances.

Until you get really, really bored and start painting your nails all different colours with the coloured whiteout. And realise that nothing on earth will remove it except forcibly scraping your nails... ouch! Not that I've erm ... ever done that or anything. Honest. (Though I did once paint my nails gold with actual gold paint. Which promptly turned green. The day before some really important function. My mum was so cross she actually went to her shrink and asked her shrink to write ME a prescription. The shrink did ... for gold nail varnish. Heh heh heh.)

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

brg30: save your pants with a similar amount of White-In!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 11 November 2002 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Bbbut the pants are brown!!

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 11 November 2002 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

if this were a Mentos commercial, you could paint white dots all over the rest of your brown pants with Wite-Out and act like it's on purpose.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 11 November 2002 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe just a coat of brown emulsion paint on your trousers would do the trick? I'm sure no-one would guess, though perhaps this might make the trouser legs rigid and you would only be able to stand up. Worth a try though, eh?

― C J (C J), Monday, 11 November 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

nooooo kate!! Whiteout had one awesome song - "Starr Club" - about how not only were they big stars, they were only ones who weren't FAKING how big of a star they were... you just can't make this stuff up, folx

I always got them confused with "Perspex Whiteout" though they may have in fact been the same band

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

It's called Liquid Paper you freaks!

brg30, maybe could paint a microphone on your crotch and tell people that you're the guy from Cameo?

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 00:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Kim is right, it's Liquid Paper, but when I was growing up we used to call it Vapour Paper because of the buzz you could get off the fumes. Okay, not really a buzz so much as a light head and a potential passing out.

Really though, this page suggest sunscreen. Really.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

B-b-but how do you get the sunscreen stain out then Mr. Smart Guy? Huh?

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Throw it in the washing machine with some soap. =)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh that's very clever.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I smell grade 5 science experiment coming up!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:18 (twenty-three years ago)

The Happy Mondays' album "Twenty Four Hour Party People Squirrel And G-Man Plastic Face Carn't Smile (White Out)" is about Tippex abuse, you know. No, honest it is. It used to be rife in the Hacienda - people sniffing bottles everywhere. If you think getting it off yer trousers is bad, you want to try getting it out of yer nasal hair.....

― lol p xx, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Snopake! I thought only Indian people said that.

Have you tried taking the pants to the cleaners?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

as they say in Boston: "That's not chowdah!"

also lol p xx, thanks for the explanation!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Tippex is German. The verb to type in German = "tippen", hence tipp + ex (no more!). Verstehen Sie?

Trouble with CJ's suggestion is that they don't make the thinner anymore. I've heard two explanations:

(i) that it gave you an even higher high when inhaled than the Tippex itself.

(ii) it encourages ppl to go out and buy more Tippex when their old bottles dry up

...both seem plausible.

No, the answer to the problem is
http://www.kneesnet.com/acatalog/H_SR_E.GIF

this little devil.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 09:21 (twenty-three years ago)

(a) was certainly true.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

They don't make thinners any more? Really?

I have a whole stationery cupboard full of it in my office. I will enter the Thinners Black Market immediately!!

(the DataCare stuff I clean my computer monitor with smells quite nice, too)

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

100 cases of thinner in good nick, ask no questions an' you'll be told no lies, guv ;)

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

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