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For real? Or just playin'? On the Net, sometimes you just don't know. Take Project Underwear for example. Maybe it's the mission statement:

Its goal is to collect new and gently used underwear and distribute them to poor children in Third World Countries. No cash donations, please. All I'm interested in collecting is underpants and undergarments.
Or maybe it's the website's crayon box color scheme which tries way too hard to invoke images of 'Reading Rainbow' or anything you ever saw hanging on the wall in first grade. The clipart of our planet in snug, no doubt "gently used," tightie whities doesn't help.

It's probably the phrase "gently used underpants" that does it though. Project Underwear (P.U.!!) not so gently hammers you with its underoo specifications (it likes 'em used, but not abused?) over and over until you gotta ask yourself ... For real?

The site offers pics of Ethiopian children waving what look like diapers as proof that P.U. might not be playin' after all, which is concerning when you realize that these are children posing in underpants, some of them with their skirts lifted up in proud display of their gently used wares. Project Underwear, I kind of hope you're playin'.

link:// Project Underwear