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Tonight while I was shopping for food (something I ought to do more often), I just happened to spot a 125ml bottle of Old Spice (original) in the deoderant aisle for $7.99. I threw caution to the wind and tossed it in the basket on top of my salad and went on my merry way- and I forgot about it for maybe an hour. That was probably a good thing.
I applied a good handful out of the bottle (it is a splash) and rubbed it onto my arm. And I instantly regretted it. "Sweet Jesus!" I cried, "Holy mother of dixie cups, someone put Pampers in my Old Spice!"
I passed out on the kitchen floor- with a warm salad spread about the place- until the topnotes subsided. I woke up in the barber shop. No, wait, I woke up on the kitchen floor, but my arm was giving off a visible mist of Pamper-Barber fumes. "Holy textbook example!" I screamed to my downstairs neighbors, "I feel a case of the vapors coming on!"
I woke up again on the pitching deck of the Titanic. Nope, I was wrong again- I was still on the kitchen floor. However, I kept receiving whiffs of: brylcreem, leather, wicker, canvas, doom, lead-based paint, and ambergris. Ha ha! I was just kidding about the ambergris. There's no ambergris here. My ordeal was over. I looked over at the clock- only an hour had passed. Only one hour of my life was a confusing mishmash of diapers and oceanliners.
"Three-toed mother of carruther!" I screamed at the top of my singed lungs, "I should tell basenotes about this! I should warn them! I'm so tired! I wonder when I'll have a day off again!"
I dragged myself over to my Stylish Electronic Cologne Research and Exploration Tool (or iBook for short) in order to read Slashdot. Ah, but then I remembered. I have to stop drinking Ambre Sultan as an aperitif- apparently my memory is suffering.
So I sat down and wrote a fevered review of my latest acquisition for a mostly sleeping audience. "Tonight while I was shopping for food," I began...
So, Basenotes: Should I wear it to work tomorrow? Huh? Do you dare me to? I swear I will.
I'll check back in the morning
-ben

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Here lies greyhueofdoubt.

Borneo 1834 - Died Febuary 1st, 2007

"He should have known better..."

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I dare you!
Maybe this ad will make you feel better about wearing it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t0z04Qz61Q

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I saw an Old Spice commercial on Comedy Central during the "Daily Show". It starred Bruce Campell of the "Evil Dead" movies and "Army of Darkeness" fame. Probably shot by Sam Raimi. That's something I can find out. It was humerous. and very professionally done.
Interestingly they showed no product, nor gave no any idea what the product they were advertising was or did. But the subtext was if you really want something... and they left you hanging.

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Short answer, I DARE YOU! Long answer? I dare you and claim your collection upon death.
- Rich

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We're on the same wavelength. I'll take the Old Spice Challenge with you. I picked up some last Sunday with the same intention to see if any of my coworkers or friends would notice.
In small doses, it's not bad. Not that good either, but not bad. I put a little too much on Sunday night and it gave me a slight headache. I remember it being one of my favorites in my dad's collection, when I was five. In high school, I wore orig. scent Old Spice antiperspirant and it actually received compliments from girls. Go figure. I think it was because it's a comfort scent for some women, remembered from their childhood as something their fathers and grandfathers wore.
I won't be back in the office until next Wednesday so I can wear it any day after that. Anybody else in? It'll be like the Basenotes version of a Jackass segment, "I'm Sloan, and this is 'Old Spice Day'". Call Knoxville.

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how many stock car racing fans we got here? seems like they're gonna push this on those fans. They have an OS product for us sophisticates and then they have the Old Spice brew that comes in a bottle that looks like gasoline additive. yee ha

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Originally Posted by fredricktoo how many stock car racing fans we got here? seems like they're gonna push this on those fans. They have an OS product for us sophisticates and then they have the Old Spice brew that comes in a bottle that looks like gasoline additive. yee ha Gasoline additive? Awesome. Perhaps OS can boost octane and clean fuel injectors too.

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Originally Posted by sloan_8013 In high school, I wore orig. scent Old Spice antiperspirant and it actually received compliments from girls. Go figure. I think it was because it's a comfort scent for some women, remembered from their childhood as something their fathers and grandfathers wore. That sounds right on the money. I've heard much the same thing with regards to Brut.

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In support of my Basenote brother, I'll wear my OS too. I purchased OS cologne spray awhile back, it was on sale. Not a bad dry down, not bad at all, and stellar lonegevity to boot. I'm in bro. Who else?