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underpants

(195,149 posts) Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:40 AM Dec 9

☃️ I just saw something on a commercial I'd never know/thought about.

Not being from where we regularly build snow men I’d never thought of this.

They used two 2x4’s or 2x6’s to roll the middle ball of the snowman on top of the bottom one. BIG snowman. The base ball must’ve been 4 feet high.

Is that common where they build a lot of snowmen?

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☃️ I just saw something on a commercial I'd never know/thought about. (Original Post) underpants Dec 9 OP

"The base ball" Intractable Dec 9 #1

Thanks. I was proud of that. 😁 underpants Dec 9 #9

We stopped building them in Indiana Captain Zero Dec 9 #2

SW Ohio here, and with our ever-decreasing snowfalls, our snowmen are too small and sad to require woodworking. Xavier Breath Dec 9 #3

What's wrong with that one? it's cute. debm55 Dec 9 #5

I searched for something like 'sad pathetic snowman' and that's what I got. Xavier Breath Dec 9 #6

Maybe a child made it. The joy is making the snowman no matter what it looks like. debm55 Dec 9 #7

Nah, the description said it was assembled in front of the UW law school. Xavier Breath Dec 9 #13

May not be common where they build a lot of snowmen... MiHale Dec 9 #4

I may be mistaken but I think that may be from yorkster Dec 9 #8

I might have missed the context. underpants Dec 9 #10

One time I added "and unexpected death" to yorkster Dec 9 #11

I saw that commercial LogDog75 Dec 9 #12

Intractable

(1,696 posts)

1. "The base ball"

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:43 AM

Dec 9

Interesting choice of words.

underpants

(195,149 posts)

9. Thanks. I was proud of that. 😁

Reply to Intractable (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:18 AM

Dec 9

Captain Zero

(8,759 posts)

2. We stopped building them in Indiana

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:44 AM

Dec 9

Like everything else that used to be built here.
So it beats me.

Xavier Breath

(6,505 posts)

3. SW Ohio here, and with our ever-decreasing snowfalls, our snowmen are too small and sad to require woodworking.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:51 AM

Dec 9

They're more like something along the lines of...

debm55

(56,409 posts)

5. What's wrong with that one? it's cute.

Reply to Xavier Breath (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:53 AM

Dec 9

Xavier Breath

(6,505 posts)

6. I searched for something like 'sad pathetic snowman' and that's what I got.

Reply to debm55 (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:56 AM

Dec 9

debm55

(56,409 posts)

7. Maybe a child made it. The joy is making the snowman no matter what it looks like.

Reply to Xavier Breath (Reply #6)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:00 AM

Dec 9

Xavier Breath

(6,505 posts)

13. Nah, the description said it was assembled in front of the UW law school.

Reply to debm55 (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 04:01 PM

Dec 9

So, some law students from Washington, Wisconsin or Wyoming put it together. Kids compared to us, to be sure

MiHale

(12,653 posts)

4. May not be common where they build a lot of snowmen...

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:52 AM

Dec 9

But it may be common where they build a lot of snowman.

Dat’s alotta snowman.

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yorkster

(3,700 posts)

8. I may be mistaken but I think that may be from

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:11 AM

Dec 9

a commercial that has a few Rube Goldberg style examples of how not to do something. Can't remember what they're selling, but the examples are amusing.

underpants

(195,149 posts)

10. I might have missed the context.

Reply to yorkster (Reply #8)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:20 AM

Dec 9

The only things I really pay attention to in those ads are the possible side effects (while everyone in the commercial is extremely happy and carefree).

yorkster

(3,700 posts)

11. One time I added "and unexpected death" to

Reply to underpants (Reply #10)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:26 AM

Dec 9

the list of possible side effects. Startled my husband who then lol'd.

LogDog75

(1,121 posts)

12. I saw that commercial

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 03:24 PM

Dec 9

As a kid, I never thought of using boards to make the snowman. Brilliant idea.

I like see how others do things in other ways we haven't thought about.

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