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This morning I picked up my keys from the table and put them in my bag. When I checked the pocket as I was leaving for work, they weren't there. I spent half an hour emptying and re-packing my bag, checking the pockets and lining of my coat, tidying up and lifting things despairingly. They didn't show up, so I had to ring my landlady, who cannot get me the keys until she's finished work, which is going to be quite late because she's busy because she's been on holiday, so after work today I have to go and find somewhere to hang around until she's done. I realise as I type this that this is hardly the worst thing that has ever happened to anyone, to have to go and find a cafe to read in for a few hours, but THEY WERE RIGHT THERE. I PICKED THEM UP. AND NOW THEY ARE GONE. They have to be in the flat because I was in the flat and I couldn't have got in without them. I am quite cross about it.

Also: a question. I read a blog today where the writer asked: why is is that you never see a sex tape "where the bloke suffers from a touch of the Peles". Now. What does this mean? Obviously I should jfgi, and usually I would brave Urban Dictionary, but I don't think that is a wise thing to do at work. Pele the footballer? Is he bemoaning the lack of sex tapes with men in full kit? I feel ignorant. This is a serious question, by the way, so if anyone knows what is meant by "a touch of the Peles", particularly in a sexual context, please let me know.

I am trying to decide whether or not I want to see The Frontline at the Globe in two Sundays. I would like to see more modern theatre, and I have a free Sunday all day until the train, but on the other hand the review I read mentioned that there was ill-advised rapping, and I don't know if I could cope with that.

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Pele did an advert advising men to seek help for their impotence issues, presumably because Pele is so manly that if he suggests it it can't be a bad thing. This is probably what is meant, but I may just be hopelessly out of touch.

Pele S.. something or other - the footballer - was a figurehead for impotence awareness quite a few years ago, I recall from researching for a paper in infertility. It's probably something to do with that.

I did that once with a credit card. (It was in my pocket. No one bumped into me, it couldn't have fallen out, but it was not back in flat.) It just went. Personally I think a Thing got it. Possibly a similar Thing to one that eats my socks when they're in the washing machine.

Your Thing sounds like our Gerald, who lives in the attic and sneaks out at night to embuggerate things.

Yes, they do sound similar.
'My' Gerald is the Thing that causes a friend's migraines. She has termed him Gerald to make it/him easier to deal with (I think).

My sister and I used to 'play' Sockmuncher. (Sockmuncher is the Thing that eats socks, obv). This involves sticking an arm in front of your face (like if you were being an elephant) and clenching and unclenching your hands while making gobbling snuffling noises. I used to be able to scare my younger sister quite badly by doing this and claiming that the Sockmuncher was tired of eating socks and decided little girls were much yummier. Bizarrely, a friend who is now my housemate played the same game, so now we have thoroughly bemused our third housemate by wandering about with our arms hanging in front of our faces, claiming to have eaten all the socks.

We don't have a Gerald but we do have pixies. If there's no explanation for it, the pixies did it.

(Not the band, the mythical creatures.)

It must be the impotence thing, yes. I think he was actually advertising V*gr* at one point though it might have been a more general awareness thing.

I thought it was quite impressive actually - a lot of Brazilian men (or American men come to that) would have run a mile at the idea of figureheading such a campaign.