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Searching for the ‘Messiah of Corduroy’: A Child Turning 11 on 11/11/11
What most of us don't know about corduroy is a lot, apparently
Have you given much (or any) thought to corduroy pants? About how the ribs of the fabric look like the number 1? Yeah, me neither.
But someone has. In fact, enough people (4,000!) like corduroy enough that they banded together to form a club – the Corduroy Appreciation Club.
No, really, there is such a thing. And they’re on the hunt for a kid who’s turning 11 on Nov. 11, since that means someone will be turning 11 on 11/11/11. And all those 1’s look like the ribs on a pair of corduroy pants.
The club will meet a week from Friday, on 11/11/11, in Manhattan, for its “grandest meeting” to date, complete with an 11-person chorus and fashion show.
When they find the child — the “messiah of corduroy” — he or she will be carried into the club meeting “on a litter, installed on a throne and treated like textile royalty.” According to the New York Daily News, the club likens the search for the chosen one to “finding the Dalai Lama.”
The club’s president said to date they have met a kid who will turn 11 next Friday, but they didn’t “deem him suitable because his father seemed like a complete nut job.”
Yeah, sure, it was the dad who was the nutty one in this scenario.
If you had a kid turning 11 next week, would you let him or her near the Corduroy Appreciation Club, or would you make them run and hide?
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Sanriobaby =^.^= commented on Nov 04 11 at 12:50 pmThis group might be harmless, but they just come off as super creepy to me and I would never allow my child to participate in their weird celebration. Why couldn’t they find an adult to “worship” on this “important” day? Wanting to fawn over a 11yrs old child in a pair of corduroys just sounds extremely suspect, like some weird fetish or something. I can’t see how any sane parent would co-sign to having thier child participate in this bizzare celebration, but that’s just me.
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