Dirty stinkin' robots

15NovDirty stinkin' robots

Sick of your kids tossing their dirty clothes on their floor? Or for that matter, your lazy husbands? (Yeah, for some reason guys have a lot of trouble actually getting their dirty clothes into the hamper. It's almost like trying to put two positive charges of a magnet together... they can come close but never quite make it.) Well, if you answered yes to either question or you're just a big sci-fi geek, then ThinkGeek has the answer for you: R2-D2 Laundry Baskets!

While these aren't nearly as cool as the R2-D2 wastebasket (and also not nearly as expensive), for a mere $40 you get a pair of hampers that spring up. Just flip up R2's head and toss your dirty clothes in. And as ThinkGeek suggests, you can now easily "sort your laundry into light sides and dark sides." Ha! Get it? Light Side? Dark Side? See, laundry should be separated by colors and there's the whole Force thing from Star Wars that... oh. You got it. It just wasn't funny. Okay. Sorry. Never mind...

Now I don't have a dirty laundry story for ya, well, not one that I'd tell here anyways... Although after college I had moved in with a bunch of guys and rented this big ol' house. One of the guys had 3 cats, the smallest being this little ball of evil called Pee Wee Soup. She was one of those crazy tough li'l runts that would hiss, swat, etc., but once you found that one little spot on her neck and started scratching, she'd just turn to mush. Anyways, my girlfriend at the time (I like to call her my wife these days), thought it'd be cute to put Pee Wee in the laundry basket I had in my closet. Why that'd be cute I have no idea. Girls are just weird. So anyways, Pee Wee sat in it. Then made her "stare" face. And yes, proceeded to pee all over my laundry basket. Awesome. So yes, I could definitely use these R2-D2 ones don't ya think?