Old Party Animals: Latex Gloves
The average American family found a way to relate to this less serious use of latex gloves back in the ’70s when M*A*S*H ‘s Trapper puffed them up to balloon status to entertain a little Korean boy. Of course, latex gloves had long been a popular party decoration around clinics and hospitals before this show aired. However this pithy sitcom elevated the gloves to a party novelty item when they were used as festive flair alongside the surgeons’ infamous still in they operated in their barracks known as the Swamp. For a fix of nostalgia, you can watch this episode of M*A*S*H Season 2, Episode 6 via www.netflix.com.
Latex gloves make for more good viewing entertainment in Nick Park’s The Wrong Trousers. Who could ever forget the dastardly, bank robbing penguin, Feathers McGraw, who ingeniously disguised himself as a chicken by snapping a rubbery glove on like a hat, the fingers waggling like a rooster’s comb from the top of his head? If you have not seen this British clay animation, make sure you do. It is definitely for the whole family. Once again Netflix is an easy resource for this film and you can watch a preview of it online.
Pediatricians jokingly refer to a fictitious medical school course called Balloon Making 101, a technique for enhancing their bedside manner with the young and ill at ease patient. Paramedics also can lay claim to some lighter moments with latex gloves. Their trucks travel along America’s roadways or wait in dispatch lots with boxes of gloves on board so it is bound to happen. Stupidvideos.com provides evidence of paramedics wrapping latex gloves over the end of ambulance tail pipes and exploding them when turning on the engine. A career that often requires hours of tedium between bursts of adrenalin must find its creative outlets.
If you are stymied the next time you have to come up with some kids’ party activities, visit balloonhq.com and search “ideas with latex gloves”. A quick dig around for magic markers and a box of latex gloves will turn you into an instant entertainment hero. Even if you considered yourself artistically impaired before, these simple but successful ideas will change your mind.
With so much press about H1N1 this season, it is most advisable to keep laughing in order to boost our immune systems. Now, more easily than ever, you can find a pack of latex gloves at a wide variety of retailers, often right on an aisle end cap. That leaves you with little excuse for not trying out a little of your own innovative glove humor.
Our author, Jen Long is a South Carolina glove pro and Director of Web Support for an online retailer of Disposable Gloves Products. She manages an online center for people dealing with wearing gloves: Struggling with Latex Gloves.
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June 15th, 2010 at 6:31 am
Nice Post. I liked it.
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