Soap on a rope

I was still in a nostalgic mood tonight and while taking a bath I recalled that 80's icon of cleanliness - soap on a rope.

Always one to ask the question "why" I tried to figure out who actually came up with the idea and compiled a short list of front runners.....

1. A paranoid male rugby player in a communal shower.
2. A paranoid male prisoner in a communal shower.
3. A pissed off mum who ended up wrapping the soap around the neck of their soiled sibling.
4. A compulsively clean suicide victim.
5. The owner of an extremely claustrophobic shower cubicle.

Mysteries of the NEXT sale

Can somebody tell me, why when NEXT always has it's sale all thats ever "on sale" are wee sizes, sodding great huge f***er sizes and soap toiletry sets?

One can only deduce from this that the only people that shop in NEXT and buy their stuff at full price are medium sized ming'in soap dodgers.