BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 12 Dec 06 - 03:22 AM

Latex body suit and brass studded black leather tutu.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: jimmyt
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 07:08 PM

One word, THONG

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 06:39 PM

Hey Tink,

   It's good to see there's a bit of humor floating about!
As for my bedtime attire....depends where I'm sleeping!!! I have a robe that is the softest, most cozy thing I own. After a long day at work, I love to slip out of my clothes and into my robe...it only takes about 5 minutes of quiet and a purring kitty before I'm snoozing in my chair....I can't help myself...all that coziness in one place....it's a no brainer!
   
Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: leftydee
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 05:43 PM

Naked as a jaybird here summer (nice and cool without the blankets ) and winter (snuggled in....ask an eskimo, absolute warmest way to sleep! )

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Cluin
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 05:36 PM

No cats on the bed, please. And no more than 1 dog.

And then, only when I'm sleeping.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Becca72
Date: 11 Dec 06 - 09:46 AM

Even though I'm a big gal, I get cold really easily. In the winter I wear a sweatshirt and sweatpants, I have 4 blankets on the bed, and I'm surrounded by 3 cats. In the summer I switch it to a tee shirt and shorts, 2 blankets and the aforementioned cats...

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 08:12 PM

We have a good selection of Scandanavians here in Edinburgh complaining about the cold, or more accurately about why draught free buildings and double glazed sash windows are so rare, and that they left their warm clothes at haome as it's not cold here.

I think I'd be in trouble if I attempetd to find out what they wear in bed though...

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 08:10 PM

Scared ya, huh?

Well, I love tropical weather too, so long as it cools down nicely in the evening like it does on Mexico's Pacific coast--as close to paradise as the north woods is for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 08:01 PM

Thanks, Kat. Might do the trick.

May Pele or Vulcan protect me from Scandihoovians like Guest. Our windows are sealed for the winter and the bed jacket would be nice when the temp. goes below 68 F.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Tinker
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 06:58 PM

Sheets and blankets are the norm in our house, but after the break in we are considering moving quick cover ups in arms length of the bed. Seeing "all" as Dad got up to pay the thief was one of the major traumas of the night for my son. But then again family legend is now growing that it aided the thief's decision to leave quickly.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 06:58 PM

Hmmmm...fortunately, though I am relatively thin, I have always had a good metabolism, so I warm up quite well after a few minutes under reasonable covers, and usually just wear maybe a tee-shirt and jockey shorts (whatever I have on when I take off jeans & shirt)....but in chilly weather, (like now...and with the heating bills going up), I wear a long-sleeved turtle-neck thing to keep arms warm outside the blankets. (I have 3-4 that are too worn for public, but are just fine for bed).
I can, and occasionally do, sleep au natural in warm weather, but habits prevail.

For almost 20 years, we had a heated water bed, which automatically had a warm place ready when time to fall over came, but it died..(yes it WAS tedious to pump out!)....we now have a better bed, but not pre-heated, so although I haven't changed my attire, I often use a couple of those microwavable "warmy bags" filled with rice or corn..etc to tide me over till the body heat kicks in...Wonderful invention!

(Trying to remeber how long it's been since I own genuine pyjamas...25-30 years? Maybe more.)

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 06:47 PM

Decades ago now, a friend of mine went as the tire baby for Halloween. We thought it was pretty clever.

As to the "how long would it take" question, I really don't know.

But being a native north woods gal, I sleep the same way my Danish grandpa did all year long. Nude, with the window open, regardless of temp. When it went below zero, he'd sleep with a jacket on!

If I don't have a window open, I feel like I'm suffocating when I sleep where there is "modern" American heating ie, frying you to death at 65F. Took my partner some time to adjust, but he did.

We sleep with a super heavy, grandma made quilt, and when it is really cold (below zero) thrown on an extra afghan and we throw on a t-shirt and sweats. But I NEVER close the window.

But then, we also routinely do saunas around here when it is zero & below, and stand outside the sauna & pour hot water over us to "cool off".

I guess it's one of those northern things.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Cluin
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 06:31 PM

Devil's in the details.


That's what makes it fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 06:29 PM

Humph. I never have been known for nuance.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Cluin
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 06:10 PM

"Cluin, NOTBODY says 'tah dah'. EVERYBODY knows that's 'ta dah'!"


Nuh uh... more successful is the version where you hold the first syllable a bit longer to build up the drama. Taaaaaaah... DAH! It's like foreplay.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 05:38 PM

There's one for folks going through certain medical procedures on THIS PAGE, Q, specifically for men.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 05:00 PM

Q, a crocheted shawl is lovely and colorful and cozy and fits everybody.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 04:57 PM

I like to read in bed, sitting up. I borrow a bed jacket from my wife when the temperature is low. Does anyone know where they sell bed jackets made for men?

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 04:55 PM

Yes. FAR more important to have SHOES by the bed.

Cluin, NOTBODY says 'tah dah'.

EVERYBODY knows that's 'ta dah'!

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 04:52 PM

A Night dress or pyjamas shoud always be kept by the bed in case of fire !

If the house is on fire, someone seein' my ass is gonna be way down my list of things to worry about.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: artbrooks
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 04:45 PM

TAb,TAc,TAd,(tae?),taf-isn't that someone from Wales?,TAg,tah-da,(tai?),taj-big building in India,(tak?),(tal?),TAm,TAn,tao-as above,TAp,(taq?),TAr,(tas?),TAT,(tau?),tav-where you go to get a drink, as in "let's go down to the tav,"TAw,TAx,tay-one of them UKish drinks,taz-my cat's name

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 03:53 PM

And that, Cluin, is the sound my heart makes when my closest associate slips into her bedtime "attire". : )

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: bobad
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 03:53 PM

Tau; the 19th. letter of thr Greek alphabet

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Cluin
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 03:49 PM

How about "Tah"?

As in "Tah DAAAAAH!"

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 03:38 PM

Ha, I say. I didn't list capitalized nouns or non-English words.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 03:33 PM

You missed Tao.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 03:14 PM

Oh, I can admit to MUCH stranger contemplations than that, frogprince. For instance, just WHY is the English language so rigidly circumscribed?

Take TA- how many letters of the alphabet can be used to make a three letter word?

TAb
TAc
TAd

TAg

TAm
TAn

TAp

TAr

TAT

TAw
TAx

What's wrong with those letters that can't be used?

Even worse:

BE
BEd

BEg

BEt



Not that I'm obsessive or anything like that...

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 03:08 PM

If a body meets a body, bare beneath the sheet;
If a body meets a body, life can be quite sweet.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Cluin
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 02:57 PM

Or "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could get his woodchucky paws on a functioning catapult?"

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 02:48 PM

"How long would it take a body to warm the space?"
Besides the other factors that have been mentioned, it would probably depend on what "a body" ate for dinner.: )

Ebbie, that is one of the strangest things I have ever heard anyone admit to contemplating! : ) perhaps on a parr with:
"Does the spearmint lose it's flavor, on the bedpost overnight?.."

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 08:08 AM

As for Ebbie;s algebra question I have put the Wes Ginny Slide Rule on it but don't expect an answer too soon 'cause it sleeps in a cold leather pounchie thing...

As fir me, I wear only my wedding ring to bed...

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 07:55 AM

A Night dress or pyjamas shoud always be kept by the bed in case of fire !

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Mooh
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 06:14 AM

Got that extra layer of fat for hibernation, bear like, so extra pjs just aren't required. The exception is in the sleeping bag where underwear subs for sheets. Haven't owned pjs for 30 years...

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: autolycus
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 05:58 AM

Bunnahabhain, can't you make her feel warm by taking your clothes off?





      Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: GUEST, ...
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 05:43 AM

Bunnahabhain, maybe your better half should have a test for thyroid problems.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 03:50 AM

It depends on what my better half feels like.....

Seriously, it does. She is always cold (Yesterday evening, she was hibernating under three thick blankets, in a draught free, not cold flat and was cold) I am not, but I can make her feel cold by wearing light clothes.


As to the warmth of a blanket frame thingy, we can say the limiting cases are a frame so large so as to have no realistic effect at all, to a frame that mimics your body shpe very well, leaving only a tiny air gap, which will be roughly as warm as normal. If you want a numerical answer, then we will need:

Weight and metabolim of person, ambient temp, themal conductivity of blankets and matress, and shape of frame (I would suggest a semicircular tube to make the numbers easier)
From those we can show how the internal temprature varies against ambient with frame size and blanket thickness

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: ragdall
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 02:22 AM

Let's postulate that one is nude and has plenty of blankets. Say that the bedcovers are hung over a frame of some sort so that no blankets touch skin anywhere including feet. Say, further, that the blankets are somehow gathered into a soft collar around one's throat, leaving only one's head out, so that no air escapes and no air comes in from the outer room.

Question: How warm would one be? How long would it take a body to warm the space?

Too many variables/ not enough information.
How large is the body and what is the person's skin temperature? Rate of metabolism? What are the blankets made from? What size is the frame (volume of space between the body and the blankets? What is the air tempertature? What is under the person?

I can tell you that my body cannot raise the temperature of the air in a "queen" sized six inch high air mattress, when the room temperature is 19 degrees celcius.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Cluin
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 02:12 AM

Add one more element to equation if you will...

The Boogeyman.

Will pulling the blankets up over the last bit of exposed skin on your head protect you from harm? Or will the Boogeyman just bide his time until you come out for fart-free air and get you then?

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 02:05 AM

That depends on what 'is' 'is'.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 01:04 AM

That depends: Farenheit or Celsius?

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Peace
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 01:03 AM

Is the body alive or not?

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 01:00 AM

This brings up a subject or concept that I have pondered on occasion.

Let's postulate that one is nude and has plenty of blankets. Say that the bedcovers are hung over a frame of some sort so that no blankets touch skin anywhere including feet. Say, further, that the blankets are somehow gathered into a soft collar around one's throat, leaving only one's head out, so that no air escapes and no air comes in from the outer room.

Question: How warm would one be? How long would it take a body to warm the space?

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 12:58 AM

That Fisk tire picture was painted on the side of the building housing the 5 & 10 cent store my grandparents often took me to in Cincinnati in about 1954. When I was learning to read I would try to get them to explain the slogan to me over and over, but I just couldn't get my mind around the idea of pun, yet.

I use knit nightgowns in varying lengths depending on the temperature. I try to keep away from using air conditioning. I spent much of the afternoon today trying to find a pair of flannel pajamas for my son, a big teen - The stores had an abundance for females of all ages, and little and elementary aged boys, and men - but teen guys?? "Well I think maybe once we did have SOME....." they said doubtfully.
--Linda

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 11:02 PM

Depends on how cold the weather is. Sometimes I need some extra insulation. Sometimes I don't.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Joe_F
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 10:44 PM

ObSongs: TTTO John Brown's Body,

I wear my silk pajamas in the summer, when it's hot,
I wear my flannel nightie in the winter, when it's not,
But sometimes in the springtime, and sometimes in the fall,
I jump right in between the sheets with nothing on at all.

Actually, that's what I do all year around. I accommodate the seasons by using more or fewer bedclothes (blanket, thermal blanket, comforter).

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 10:07 PM

Some of the time, when we go swimming, it's where we have to wear bathing suits. Just once in a long while, we sleep in situations where we have to wear jammies. Actually, at those times my wife settles for some pullover shirt or another that's long enough to avoid embareassment.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 10:04 PM

The Word from Hardi:

"Tain't No Sin to Take Off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones."

And YOU-all thought he was a man of the cloth!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 09:57 PM

Well lessee. There are my thermal winter thongs, cotton voile spring thongs in assorted flower prints to match the sheets, and summer thongs in airy mesh...

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: GUEST,Scoville
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 09:47 PM

Hey--we've got one of those ads in my dad's car-ad scrapbooks from when he was a kid. It's a running family joke.


Warm weather (most of the year):
Skivvies and a "wife-beater". Just skivvies if it's really hot or if the power goes out.

Cold weather (about 1 week every December):
Flannel nightgown.

Subject: RE: BS: Bedtime 'A Tire' or lack thereof?
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 09:40 PM

Depends on the weather.

It used to depend upon who I was with too, but not for the last 33+ years.