I didn’t plan on watching this entire video, especially since my usual limit is 59 seconds, but twist endings for each piece of furniture kept me captivated.
Okay, the truth. TRANSFORMERS FURNITURE!
(Check out ResourceFurniture’s website here. Check out the last time I wanted furniture for Christmas here.)
I’m not a fan of carnival games. This guy is not a fan of something else…
If there was a dummy of this dummy, I might share the same… um… enthusiasm?
He really has a "Can Do!" attitude.
This So, Duh! Pop Quiz was inspired by something my sister Becky noticed. In 80’s movies, there was nothing more common than a good bike chase. Well, maybe it wasn’t common at all, but it seems to be relegated to only films made back then. See if you can figure out which spokes appeared in which flicks:
1) 
2) 
3) 
4) 
5) 
6)
(Okay, this one is technically from 1979...)
7) 
8)
(answers after the jump)
Here’s the close-up:
When I thought about making this image, I didn't really think about what it meant.
I once was going to write about how the Proactiv commercials ripped off a Bruce Hornsby riff, but I was sidelined into exploring the curse that product has had on its bevy of attractive hawkers.
But not this time.
Throughout the years, commercials have ruined many popular songs by using them to push products. Not only do the songs get overplayed, but they also become synonymous with that product.
For example:
Well, there’s one thing I hate more than that. It infuriates me to the bone in such a primal way that it makes me wonder if I truly am…
an Artist!
Anyspew, I can’t stand it when commercials rip-off song riffs.
As mentioned at this post’s start, Proactiv did this in their commercials.
Here are some others that I found (the articles about):
Or did they simply commit the act of liberal borrowing?
Want to know the source of this rage? Budweiser has a couple of radio spots currently playing in which, I believe, this song is being ripped off:
I couldn’t find the spots anywhere on the TripleDoubleU, but one is about baseball being America’s pastime, and the other is about how there is 24 happy hours across the world.
If anyone can find those for me, I’d greatly appreciate it. I have far more ripping and riffing to do…
BONUS STEALING!
I’ve remembered two more…
The answer for both is of course, yes.
BONUS FORGOTTEN POST!
My brother recently packed up and headed west to California. He’s moving into the area known as Korean Town, and he was not too happy to find out that this show might be happening:
K-Town… Korean American’s answer to the biggest question mark in the world… Jersey Shore.
Considering either area might not be a viable living option for most, the third option could always be Detroit.
You could wait to watch the new ABC show called Detroit 187, or you could share my experience. The following pictures were taken the other day on my way to the ballgame:
I was going to add something about the Detroit Tigers not being able to catch a break, but…
The other morning, I was waking up (as opposed to not waking up, which would be dying I guess… and digress), and I watched an infomercial for this:
The 30 Second Smile as it is known was an old idea of mine called The Teethbrush. Well, it’s not exactly the same, but mine would be even easier/messier. It would have been a retainer full of moving bristles on the end of a stick, and could have been even quicker than The 30 Second Smile.
(SIDENOTE: As a man who loves puns, I feel like they missed out on an opportunity. “30 Second” sounds a lot – er, I mean, exactly like “32nd”… Grown adults have 32 teeth… I don’t know what the punny slogan could have been. I’m not paid to dream up their ad campaigns!)
So anytooth, this isn’t the first time my ideas have been plucked from the collective unconscious, and I think it’s time for the collective unconscious to pay!
Here’s a list of thoughts nabbed from my napping noggin in the past.
Most recently, it was in the form of an iPhone app I wished existed, and now finally does…
Does not provide directions to the actual border...
Oh, that app was out long before I wrote my post?
Time for me to start doing better research.
(SIDENOTE: I’m probably not really going to do better research.)
Even though it’s been around, like forever, which according to itself means:
forever is until you find something better…
…I’ve only recently discovered what my name means via the Urban Dictionary. Take a gander for yourself:
I can live with that. And I need to find out who funwithamber is… Either she’s a fun girl named Amber, or a scientist from Jurassic Park. So in other words, a win either way.
Also from the TripleDoubleU archives, I present to you a new Parry Gripp song. I’ve written about him before, so for more of that, click here. Otherwise, enjoy the heartwarming tale of the Hero Rats…
*sniff* The part about “saving us from ourselves” gets me every time.
I’ve written about the Insane Clown Posse before (<—you must check this link out), and I hoped it’d be the last.
Nope.
Rapper (?) Violent J’s 5 year-old son, Violent JJ (of course), is now a rapper (?)… and apparently a wrestler, too.
(SIDENOTE: For more Violent J fun, check out Violent J is John Goodman.)
That was going to be my Hibbidy-Wah?! of the day, but then I saw this:
You're welcome.
(via Screen Junkies)
I’m an adult. I know this. I try to remind myself of this fact every day. I own a house. I drink beer legally. I have to use my arms and my legs to stand up from sitting.
So it’s fitting that at least one of the items in this Awesome Battle contains the word adult…
There is an incredible show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim that no one but my friend, Chris, and I watch.
It’s entitled Delocated, and here’s a sample:
Vodpod videos no longer available.
Sure, I should have set up the video, but I like to throw people in the deep end, let them get their feet wet and water in their lungs, you know. Essentially, it’s a fake reality (?) show about a family in the witness protection program, and it’s so absurd I absolutely love it. Season 2 premieres August 22, and I can’t believe I missed it during its initial run.
This second item… I’m not too proud about my excitement.
Apparently, some time between me leaving grade school and starting high school, these toys were out in stores:
Computer Warriors?!? Fucking robots hiding inside soccer balls, flashlights, and Pepsi cans?!? Mattel must have been trying to capitalize on the success of M.A.S.K. (my all-time favorite toy line) and Transformers, but just a tad too late or too early. If these would have lasted on the market, or arrived on the scene two years later when I had my first job at a toy store, I would have had them all.
But I’m an adult. I shouldn’t try winning some of them on eBay…
…but I will.
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