Stalker News Update: GPS Panties Aint Real?

Okay I admit it. Like a bunch of other media figures who didn't do enough homework on a story, I bought it hook, line, and sinker. On May 27, 2005, I posted a panties were a ruse, merely an entry of an online contest sponsored by CryingWhileEating.com, whose site featured video of various people, um, crying while they ate. The site attracted a respectable 386,638 unique visitors. It must have been novelty, the plausibility, the sheer "is-this-thing-for-real?" factors that drove the Forget-Me-Not Panties site. It sure looked legit enough with prices, ordering information, testimonials, and even legal stuff at the bottom listing the manufacturer of the bugged underwear--Panchira Corp., in Tokyo. Panchira is Japanese for "showing underwear," a phrase I should have remembered from some of my perverted Japanese friends as they informed me (without my asking by the way), on how to flirt with high school girls at the train station. That I forgot the word should be evidence of how little I used it. An extension of the word is a Japanized version of the English word "punchline," or "panchirain." Ouch. That hurts, dude. But very clever. Anyway, I have to give props to the creators of the site, self-named "The Panty Raiders," (who are chicks by the way) on creating a convincing and hilarious website that had all of us talking. I even printed out the information to show my family at our Memorial Day cookout. My uncles got quite a chuckle from it. "The Panty Raiders" emailed me to let me know that they received hundreds of order requests from men and an equally impressive number of requests from women wanting male versions. In addtion they had hundreds of distribution offers from around the world.