9/29/2005

Lysol Introduces Candy


Lysol introduced a brand new item to their disinfectant line today. Lysol, known for their odor reducing products, have decided to go from being on the defense to becoming the offense.

The new item is “Lysol Fruit Snack Disinfectant.” This new candy is promised to not only taste great, but to also disinfect the innards of your colon. So, on your next visit to the bathroom, you'll now leave behind a pleasant odor instead of just a nasty turd.

“It's ingenious,” product spokesperson Joe Orsulak told us from behind an old Caldor's, “Now your friends won't ban you from their house just because you leave stink bombs in their bathrooms. It's not like it was your fault, how were you suppose to know the chili was going to do that to you? No... no. Now instead they'll purposely invite you over just to take a dump, because they want their house to smell nice. But you won't do it. Now you have the leverage in the relationship. Go ahead, let 'em beg you for them to be your friends. Let them crawl to you for once!”

At this point me and my colleagues slowly inched away... then broke into full sprint until we got into our van and sped away.

Before we left though, we did get our hands on a sample of the candy and can report that besides it's nasty taste it is quite good. Just make sure you read the warning label. We didn't. Oh well, I guess it makes sense you shouldn't eat that many in one sitting. Poor Mike, may he rest in peace.

Look for Lysol candy to appear at your local supermarket in about a month or two.

9/23/2005

Bad Movies I Like: The Wizard


“I love the power glove. It's so bad!”

Starring Fred Savage and Christian Slater, The Wizard was destined to be a horrible film. Nonetheless, I'll have to add it to my list of films I embarrassingly enjoy.

If you've never seen The Wizard, imagine watching a commercial for Nintendo... for 100 minutes. This film would seem it would of fit in better in the wee hours of the morning between infomercials for Blue Blockers and Mr. Popeil's Spaghetti Maker rather than the big screen at you local Megaplex. But that's where it wound up, for a couple of weeks anyway, before it was yanked from the silver screen and made it's way to the VHS bargain bin.

The Wizard tells the story of two kids. Fred Savage and his younger brother Jimmy, who seems to suffer for extreme shyness or something. The kid doesn't seem to ever speak, which automatically makes him the best character in the film.

Anyway, Jimmy apparently one day scores 5000 points while playing Double Dragon. That, apparently, is enough reason for the both of them to run away to compete in a Video Game tournament in California. Somehow along the way they meet some girl to balance the cast out.

Oh yes, there is some more of a plot, but I forget most of it. Why? It's not important. The plot gets about five second of film time, anymore and their just would not have been enough time for Nintendo to plug all their crap.

The only thing you really need to know is that for some reason there's some dude trying to capture Jimmy. At one point he almost succeeds, but that quick thinking stray girl they picked up comes up with an idea to stop him (she must have some point in this story). How? She simply yells out, “He touched my breast!” Which of course draws attention to the evil-doer by people in the area. I guess yelling, “Hey, that guy is kidnapping a child,” wouldn't of sufficed.

Yeah, in case you couldn't tell, this story is full of important morals for kids to learn. So far these kids have run away from home and used false sexual harassment claims to get your way. But wait, there's more:

The kids also make money by gambling in a casino and hustling business men at video games. Wow.

Somewhere along the way they meet a kid named Lucas. And he's cool. So cool. You want to know why? He's got a Power Glove! That stupid NES controller that every kid wanted, but worked about as well as just wearing a regular glove and made you look like the biggest dumbass in the world. Somehow our heroes of the story are shocked by this glove. “What is that?” they ask. What is that? What is that!? Don't these kids watch commercials? It's a god damn Power Glove. Now respect the damn kid who looks like a dumbass.

Jimmy apparently gets major freaked out by the Power Glove and runs to a vacant lot to stack popcorn boxes. Yeah... I don't know.

Popcorn stacking aside, the biggest deal about this movie may have been the ending when they showed off Super Mario Bros. 3 for the first time. Yep, who needs E3 anyway, every big game should just be shown off at the end of a movie. Perhaps they should spotlight the next Mario Party Game at the end of Harry Potter, it'd be much better than an actual finale to the story.

This may have been a big deal to all those 10 year olds in audience at the movie theater, but it meant absolutely nothing to me since I saw it a year later on rented VHS and had already been playing the game for months. In fact it only pissed me off since somehow Jimmy found the first secret whistle the first time he ever played the game, and first time I played I died from falling in a hole (which was quite embarrassing since it was at an arcade machine in the local McCorrie's, with a bunch of cooler kids laughing at me looking over my shoulder... although, as I think about it now those kids were about as cool as Lucas). The kid was an obvious cheater, adding another bad moral for kids.

But I digress. Next time you see this film rerunning on Encore, stop and have a look. It's a nice stroll down memory lane to when the NES was the coolest thing in the world, and since they don't rerun old video game commercials, this is all we got.


9/19/2005

Bush Gets His Revenge

After the bathroom pass ordeal it seems Bush decided to get revenge:



9/16/2005

Bush to Condi: Can I Go To The Bafroom?

So the question is, who do you have to be in this world to not have to ask permission to take a toliet break?



US President George W Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations. It reads: ‘I think I may need a bathroom break. Is this possible?


Barbara Bush, Humanitarian

Presenting the adventures of Barbara Bush, Humantarian! Today we join the elder Bush at the Houston Astrodome consoling hurricane Katrina victoms.





For those of you who somehow have no idea what this is in referance to, check out this CNN article.


9/09/2005

My iPod is Better Than Yours


9/07/2005

What Saddam Hussein Is Up To Right Now

Saddam Hussein has been in jail for a while now, and the question on everyone's mind is: What's he up to in there? Well, I'll show you:



Trying to make his moustache grow faster.

Playing dictator to a family of rats.

Fantasizing about being a superhero.

Quietly sobbing in the corner.


9/05/2005

Palmeiro on steroids?

You know, some people are saying Rafael Palmeiro should still be able to make it into the hall of fame despite the fact he tested positive for steroids. They're not convinced he's on the juice.


I think they're crazy! Did you see his last baseball card?



Speaking of steroids...


9/02/2005

Loot! Loot! Loot! for the home team.

By now we've all seen the looting that is occurring in New Orleans in the aftermath of the hurricane devastation. And, like me, you probably shook your head and waggled your finger at the TV screen in a disapproving manor.


But, let's look at it this way. They says hundreds, possibly thousands are missing or dead. The area has been evacuated yet these people are still there, probably because they have nowhere to go (or maybe they're afraid that someone will loot their house if they leave). Now, if your stuck there, what are you going to do for food? Ain't nowhere open to shop.


Also these people have lost everything, let them steel a pair of shoes, when they get home it'll still be a hurricane wrecked piece if crap house. Of all the looters I've seen on TV, none have them seemed too happy. Not one looter was skipping down the street with a shopping bag, excited about the great deals they were getting.


Of course people also stealing things they don't need, like plasma TVs. I'm sure those TVs will look great back at their houses that lack electric/cable/roofs.


And, for those of you wondering where the police are in all this, don't worry! They are getting in on the fun too! As seen in this video:


Watch video (Windows Media)