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Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: RD on 07/09/2009 22:45:12: . [ Invalid Attachment ]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1211526/The-toed-sock-taking-running-world-storm.html)

Toe-tally weird
Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: Variola on 07/09/2009 22:57:00: I wonder if they do some with high heels.... [;D]
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Post by: LeeE on 07/09/2009 23:09:23: ...or calf/thigh-length lace-ups...

Velcro must be the least sexiest thing ever invented.
Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: RD on 07/09/2009 23:16:46: They won't be selling many pairs in Norfolk [:)]
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Post by: LeeE on 08/09/2009 14:39:48: Ah yes - not enough toes and no allowance for the webbing between them [;)]

Actually, I think Norfolk, and most of the people I've met there are quite pleasant.
Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: JimBob on 08/09/2009 17:13:35: Tell me please why, when you go to Google maps and search for "Norfolk, UK," the little balloon indicator points to a farmer's field?
Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: Variola on 08/09/2009 17:47:42: Quote from: JimBob on 08/09/2009 17:13:35
Tell me please why, when you go to Google maps and search for "Norfolk, UK," the little balloon indicator points to a farmer's field?

Because that is pretty much all it is, one big field. [:)]

Actually I love Norfolk because it is so flat, big long skies, perfect!
Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: RD on 08/09/2009 19:10:12: This footware is more suited to rural Norfolk [:)] ...

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Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: glovesforfoxes on 08/09/2009 22:10:43: Quote from: RD on 08/09/2009 19:10:12
This footware is more suited to rural Norfolk [:)] ...

those are really creepy.
Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: RD on 08/09/2009 22:21:57: These are equally rural but less creepy ...

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The mini horseshoes are detachable, apparently.
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Post by: Make it Lady on 08/09/2009 22:58:26: oooh, pony fetishist boots.
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Post by: AllenG on 09/09/2009 01:58:11: In the concrete floor of my barn there is an imprint of a child's feet.
Both have the arches on the right side and all total there are 11 toes.
Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: Karen W. on 09/09/2009 02:06:34: Quote from: glovesforfoxes on 08/09/2009 22:10:43
Quote from: RD on 08/09/2009 19:10:12
This footware is more suited to rural Norfolk [:)] ...

those are really creepy.

ditto..ooooh yuck!
Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: RD on 09/09/2009 10:27:03: Quote from: AllenG on 09/09/2009 01:58:11
Both have the arches on the right side and all total there are 11 toes.

Double-dipping the same foot and toes may be the explanation.
Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: Don_1 on 10/09/2009 08:59:05: Quote from: RD on 08/09/2009 22:21:57
These are equinely rural but less creepy ...

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The mini horseshoes are detachable, apparently.
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Post by: RD on 10/09/2009 12:54:04: . [ Invalid Attachment ]

Cobbler or blacksmith ? [:)]
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Post by: Brayantobbe on 24/06/2010 08:10:59: I think wearing Vibram five fingers with gloves could be a fashionable attraction. But I guess it will not suit for any formal occasion. There are still lots of choices in he market as you can see.
Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: SeanB on 24/06/2010 19:47:26: Looking at the rodent footwear I can get the rodents in size 10, how many thousand do you want, they are getting too big to fit the Tomcat, have to give the blue food in a drainpipe now.
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Post by: Geezer on 24/06/2010 20:11:56: Sounds like you may have an infestation of capybaras.
Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: Bored chemist on 25/06/2010 07:15:06: Is that a collective noun?
Title: Shoes that fit like a glove
Post by: Karen W. on 25/06/2010 13:15:08: Quote from: RD on 08/09/2009 19:10:12
This footware is more suited to rural Norfolk [:)] ...

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They come in size 10 through 14 and many times quite a bit larger here!!!
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Post by: RD on 25/06/2010 13:46:27: Quote from: SeanB on 24/06/2010 19:47:26
... they are getting too big to fit the Tomcat

You need a bionic cat ...

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[may sink into soft ground though [:)] ]
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Post by: SeanB on 25/06/2010 20:09:08: I had a few feral cats around ( 5m and 10m - the closest you can come to them) but the Sotho's ate them, as well as a few of the rats.