The Moist Towelette Museum

July 29, 2008 5:59 AM

So lemony and wonderful. Of course I searched the Metafilter Archives. I wanted to be sure I was not reposting a link. But I did find one reference to moist towelettes from machaus

"Many individuals have asked me in past months, Why moist towelette collecting? Why not stamp collecting, or numismatics? To be different, perhaps? " posted by machaus (12 comments total) back in 2001.

Well -- Machaus -- now you know where you can leave your collection when preparing your will.
posted by RubberHen (27 comments total)

Yeah, it's best to give your collection to the Moist towelette museum before you keel over, or your heirs will just use it to wipe themselves... what a horrible end for a moist towelette collection!
posted by Termite at 6:15 AM on July 29, 2008

...or your heirs will just use it to wipe themselves...

Hey, I got news for those heirs: Old moist towelettes? THEY DRY OUT!!!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:20 AM on July 29, 2008

"moist" has to be one of the creepier words in the English language. Just rubs me the wrong way.



Unlike a lemony, moist towelette.

(For the record, I thought this post might have been about lemon curd when I saw the first sentence of the FPP.)
posted by availablelight at 6:21 AM on July 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

What's worse is to call it a wet-nap. There's just nothing good about that mental picture.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 6:22 AM on July 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

I've always found "wet ones" to be a little unsettling.
posted by A Thousand Baited Hooks at 6:26 AM on July 29, 2008

but where is the linkback to the old machaus post?
posted by Daddy-O at 6:29 AM on July 29, 2008

The People's Republic of Lemony Fresh
posted by kcds at 6:35 AM on July 29, 2008

Here is the machaus post.
posted by stavrogin at 6:35 AM on July 29, 2008

I saw the Japanese band the Moist Towelettes perform several years back. They were all flavours of awesome. I thought that was what this post was going to be about.
posted by saucysault at 6:35 AM on July 29, 2008

Modern Moist Towlette Collecting theme song

Lyrics here.
posted by Daddy-O at 6:48 AM on July 29, 2008

'"moist" has to be one of the creepier words in the English language.'

Why is this? I've heard this before, but I seem somehow constitutionally incapable of perceiving it. There are words I avoid because I dislike them, but this one I don't. Is there some pronunciation other than "moyst" that I'm not aware of, or something?
posted by majick at 6:50 AM on July 29, 2008

"moist" has to be one of the creepier words in the English language. Just rubs me the wrong way.

My guess is that you are doing it wrong then.
posted by srboisvert at 6:57 AM on July 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

Now all we need is moist towelette porn. Come on, Mefites, don't let me down!
posted by Saxon Kane at 7:02 AM on July 29, 2008

'"moist" has to be one of the creepier words in the English language.'

But it goes so well with "glistening"'
posted by rhymer at 7:17 AM on July 29, 2008

> Now all we need is moist towelette porn.

And Roy Orbison.
posted by ardgedee at 7:18 AM on July 29, 2008

"moist" has to be one of the creepier words in the English language.

This is so true. There are only three applications for the word moist: moist soil, moist cake and moist towelette. Any other usage is just creepy, bad and wrong.
posted by Dreama at 7:56 AM on July 29, 2008

I like this post. Just sayin'.
posted by newmoistness at 8:25 AM on July 29, 2008

[voice over]

My mother. She hates balloons and the word 'moist'. She considers it pornographic.

- George - Dead Like Me
posted by quin at 8:40 AM on July 29, 2008

Whatever can't be flushed will eventually end up on the Internet.
posted by Knappster at 8:42 AM on July 29, 2008

I used to buy moist towelettes by the millions. They go into each and every MRE, because our fighting men and women can't wipe their hands on their BDUs after they finish eating. Even visited a moist towelette factory. It smelled very lemony.
posted by fixedgear at 8:48 AM on July 29, 2008

Moist, glistening Roy Orbison.


I just wanted to line all those words up in a row, and I'll be damned if it isn't satisfying.
posted by FatherDagon at 8:55 AM on July 29, 2008

Hating "moist."
posted by languagehat at 9:04 AM on July 29, 2008

It has been posted before, but we've touched a lot of sticky topics since then.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:33 AM on July 29, 2008

"Hating "moist."

A great link that I looked at, but it comes to nothing approaching a conclusion. The author discovers this weird phenomenon of people (seeming to be primarily women, but without numbers to back that up) disliking the word, gathers a few anecdotes to illustrate it, and makes no effort to figure out why! The apparent correlation with gender is an interesting angle worth exploring, and the commonality of this particular word is especially curious. But all we get is "hey, I've never heard of this, but apparently it's out there."

Can't any of you anti-"moist" people explain what the hell this is about? I think of the word as having positive connotations if anything, and yet there's this upwelling of disgust about it that makes no damned sense!
posted by majick at 11:17 AM on July 29, 2008

I think of the word as having positive connotations if anything, and yet there's this upwelling of disgust about it that makes no damned sense!

Kinda makes me moist, thinking about it. Of course, given my gender, that's not a net positive.
posted by maxwelton at 12:18 PM on July 29, 2008

Want an allsky for your planetarium? Download these 6 files created with Digidome, print them to slides and put them in your allsky system. ... Contact the museum's curator if you're interested in moist towelette content for Digistar 3 or other alldome video systems.

This has to be one of the strangest, nerdliest and most apocryphal things I've ever read on the internet.
posted by loquacious at 12:45 PM on July 29, 2008

Wow -- that was ... I am awed...in awe... thanks Ambrosia voyeur -- the name is wonderful. And these ... well... "moist" discussions! Wow!
posted by RubberHen at 11:36 PM on August 2, 2008