“My girdle is killing me” was an obnoxious slogan from a TV ad that ran in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The widely-mocked catchphrase was meant to inspire women to rush out and buy a certain brand of non-murderous undergarment. I doubt the ad’splaintive tone helped boost sales, but hey — I’m no marketing expert.And yet, underwear can be dangerous. In 2009, the so-called “underwear bomber” stuffed his shorts with explosives and boarded a plane. Luckily, he couldn’t ignite his stuff, and his plot fell flat. In 2020, Alexey Navalny, a fierce critic of the Kremlin, nearly died when a Russian agent smeared nerve toxin on his underpants (because nothing says “strong, confident world leader” like poisoning one’s critics, right?).
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