Why Is This Glove Called “The Shocker”?
I don’t usually do a lot of things that require gloves (constant blogging has left my hands as supple as a baby’s ass), but if I ever did need to cover my hands, I would use a pair of Shocker Love Gloves. Why are these gloves named after the “two in the pink, one in the stink” move of the same name? According to the website, some popular uses for these gloves are:
Baseball/Softball
Pit Crews
Keep your hands clean
Industrial
Motorcycle/Enduro
I’m sorry, but I still don’t understand. None of these uses offer any explanation as to why this glove company has decided to market their brand after a sex act that involves jamming your pinky up someone’s ass. Why is their logo a hand doing the shocker? Are you supposed to wear these when you’re giving your girlfriend or wife a shocker? Are they designed specifically for shocking? Is “shocking” the present perfect verb of “shocker”? I have a lot of questions about these gloves, but sadly no answers.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:13 am
You know what is totally, hella boss … that the pinky finger is brown all the way around. (Check out the website for a palm side view.)
April 17th, 2008 at 9:33 am
“Shocking” in that context is actually a gerund because it’s used as a noun, specifically the object of the preposition “for”. The present perfect verb form would be “have/has shocked”. What you were thinking of is the present progressive or ‘continuous’ verbal conjugation, which would be “am/are/is shocking”.
-GrammarNazi
April 17th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I think these gloves are only to be used if you pick up chicks at a dockside bar. And yes, the brown pinky is awesome (or “hella boss” as Buddy Ice put it).
April 17th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Looks to me like the glove company had no idea what the recent college graduates they had recently hired in the marketing dept. were up to. lol
April 17th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
The company that makes them is a paintball company called shocker
April 17th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
aww…they even color coded the correct fingers to be used.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
I hear that the red part acts as a gauge. If you see red, you’re apparently not doing it right.
April 18th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Or you are doing it at the wrong time of the month. He He