WTF Do the ⏹ 🔼 ⏺ on My 👕 Tag Mean?

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Plus, koala fingerprints, lobster pee and other hot facts. There are mysterious symbols inside your tee-shirt -- do you know what they mean? ELT reveals the secrets of The DaLaundry Code. Plus, lobsters pee from their faces, and other cocktail party fodder from our fact buddy exchange. Guests: Symbol whisperer John Langdon; Pascale Florant of GINETEX; Patrick A. Ayers of Vartest Labs. Thanks to laundry caller Ellen, Fran Kozen of Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology, and to our fact buddies Josh, Angela, Greg, Olivia, Chad, Kathryn, Rachel, Amber, Ivy and Lia. Have a question that needs answering? Call the ELT Help Line #(833) RING ELT. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.media/OurAdvertisers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Flora here.
0:04.0	Flora here.
0:05.0	Listener Ellen left a voicemail on the Every Little Thing helpline because she found
0:11.0	a coded message in an article of clothing.
0:15.0	Well, it was salmon colored and it was just like a pullover, like scoop neck,
0:22.0	just kind of almost like a tee but like a nicer version a fancy tea
0:26.2	I live in the world of fancy teas that's the the only fancy I do is tea fancy. Yeah and I was trying to figure out how to clean this piece of
0:37.7	clothing and looked on the tag. I mean the tag was like six inches long it seemed like and there were no words.
0:47.0	Just had a bunch of symbols.
0:51.0	A square with a circle in it,
0:55.0	the little dot in the very center,
0:57.0	had a triangle with some lines in it,
1:00.0	and then a circle with an X through it.
1:07.0	The Eternal Mystery of the Laundry Care Tag.
1:10.0	And I was like, this is ridiculous.
1:12.0	Just like, this is ridiculous.
1:12.8	Just like, how could anyone know what this is supposed to mean?
1:18.1	What is Ellen's salmon-colored fancy tea trying to tell her.
1:25.0	We knew just where to go for answers.
1:28.0	The symbols are a language that can help us understand our past.
1:33.0	As a saying goes, a picture says a thousand words.
1:37.0	Are you familiar with the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown?
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