Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/10/fed-up-cobbler-fashions-extra.html
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What a bargain! Can that be right? I’ve paid more for mass-produced dress shoes from China.
Specially made for Sideshow Bob.
I’ll stick with these, thankyouverymuch:
In before all the cordwainer vs cobbler pedants.
(Give it a rest folks, nobody cares!)
The Simpsons predicted another one
Maybe there is a metre and a half between the backs of their heels but definitely between their mouths and noses.
No thanks.I have enough trouble trying not to trip over my own feet as it is.
How can they walk up steps? Heck. How can they even fit into stairways?
If you receive them at all. A Romanian-American friend (immigrated from Romania ~10 years ago) has told me of the not altogether… successful… delivery attempts made by any postal/delivery service within Romania… incoming and outgoing. Perhaps he was exaggerating?
Sideways or backwards. I used to do that a lot when wearing flippers.
The Charlie Chapin ‘Little Tramp’ walk?