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underpants

(196,502 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:40 AM Dec 2025

☃️ I just saw something on a commercial I'd never know/thought about.

Not being from where we regularly build snow men I’d never thought of this.

They used two 2x4’s or 2x6’s to roll the middle ball of the snowman on top of the bottom one. BIG snowman. The base ball must’ve been 4 feet high.

Is that common where they build a lot of snowmen?

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Captain Zero

(8,905 posts)
2. We stopped building them in Indiana
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:44 AM
Dec 2025

Like everything else that used to be built here.
So it beats me.

Xavier Breath

(6,640 posts)
3. SW Ohio here, and with our ever-decreasing snowfalls, our snowmen are too small and sad to require woodworking.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:51 AM
Dec 2025

They're more like something along the lines of...

Xavier Breath

(6,640 posts)
13. Nah, the description said it was assembled in front of the UW law school.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 05:01 PM
Dec 2025

So, some law students from Washington, Wisconsin or Wyoming put it together. Kids compared to us, to be sure

MiHale

(13,032 posts)
4. May not be common where they build a lot of snowmen...
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:52 AM
Dec 2025

But it may be common where they build a lot of snowman.

Dat’s alotta snowman.

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yorkster

(3,832 posts)
8. I may be mistaken but I think that may be from
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 12:11 PM
Dec 2025

a commercial that has a few Rube Goldberg style examples of how not to do something. Can't remember what they're selling, but the examples are amusing.

underpants

(196,502 posts)
10. I might have missed the context.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 12:20 PM
Dec 2025

The only things I really pay attention to in those ads are the possible side effects (while everyone in the commercial is extremely happy and carefree).

yorkster

(3,832 posts)
11. One time I added "and unexpected death" to
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 12:26 PM
Dec 2025

the list of possible side effects. Startled my husband who then lol'd.

LogDog75

(1,301 posts)
12. I saw that commercial
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 04:24 PM
Dec 2025

As a kid, I never thought of using boards to make the snowman. Brilliant idea.

I like see how others do things in other ways we haven't thought about.

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