Archive for April, 2008

The dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my whole life

April 27, 2008

I once got the autograph of an Elvis impersonator.  He signed it “Elvis”, not with his real name.  I’m not sure why exactly, but for some reason that makes it seem even worse. 

I wasn’t the only one doing it.  I was just standing and saw a group of other people getting autographs and I guess just by instinct I thought that if other people wanted one I should too.  I blame peer pressure

It wasn’t until I got back to my seat that I realized what I had done

a dream deferred

April 25, 2008

The problem with schools is that they keep sending kids mixed messages.

Back in the third grade they told us that if you try really hard you can be anything you want be when you grow up. Then the teacher asked us to write a paragraph about what we wanted to be. But when I got up in class to read my paper the teacher told me that my goal of becoming omniscient wasn’t realistic, and that  technically it didn’t even count as an occupation .

Way to crush my dreams, Mrs. Culp!

In retrospect I guess she probably was right. I’m 34 now and  I’m still not omniscient.

At least I don’t think I am. And if you’re not 100% sure if you’re omniscient or not that probably means that you’re not. It’s a bit of a Catch 22

I used to fib and put “omniscience” down as a qualification on job applications and things like that. Everyone fudges a bit on that kinda stuff .  And I still think omniscience looks pretty damn impressive on your résumé.  Plus I figured that it would be pretty hard for them to check up on something like that.

It never worked for me though. I guess most places didn’t believe me.

Or maybe they just thought that a all knowing deity would be overqualified to work at Dairy Queen.

 

Shamwow!

April 23, 2008
If you’re like me, you live in a pool of your own filth. So, like me, it takes a remarkable cleaning product to get your attention. Well friends, I found one.
 
It’s a chamois, but it’s so amazing that when they took the thing down to the patent office no one could even say what it was without being so amazed that they had to just call it Shamwow!
 
Their slogan is that you’ll “say WOW every time”. Other companies might suggest that the Shamwow people are cheating - I mean they did put the word “wow” right there in the product’s name. I suggest to you that they are just jealous that they didn’t think of it first.
 
Regardless, the Shamwow makes ordinary towels seem like a turd. Spill some milk on your counter? Might as well try to wipe it up with a handful of cat turds - because that’s exactly what you’re doing if you use anything but an authentic Shamwow!
 
In fact, the webpage even warns you to beware of Shamwow imitators. I’ve looked into some of them and trust me - there is no way the ShamNeat, ShamHuh or even the ShamNotBadAtAll can compare to the Shamwow.
 
I haven’t gotten mine in the mail yet, so anything I spill in the next three to four weeks is just going to have to sit there and wait until I can take care of it properly with a Shamwow. Actually, there are still several spills that have been here since before I even heard of the product. I’m going to wait on those too.
 
This is Vince. He’s wearing a high-tech microphone headset because he knows that the product is so great that people will be crowding the phone lines to order a Shamwow EVEN BEFORE THEY FINISH FILMING THE COMMERCIAL. It’s that good. People will be dialing numbers at random just hoping against hope that someone will answer who is able to sell them a Shamwow.
 
 Vince is so dedicated to the product that he won’t even waste the time it would’ve taken him to comb his hair before going on television. Vince is solely dedicated to spreading the gospel of a better way to wipe things up.
 
The Shamwow isn’t cheap - it’s twenty dollars. But Vince wisely points out that “you’re going to spend twenty dollars EVERY MONTH on paper towels!”. I did some math and assuming you started buying paper towels at the age of 18 and you lived to the full life expectancy of someone living in the U.S over the course of your lifetime you’ll spend $13, 920 on paper towels! And that’s just if you stay single! For a family of four the lifetime paper towel expenses skyrocket up to $55, 680! How can you afford not to get the Shamwow!? Over the course of a lifetime Shamwow will save you enough money to buy yourself a nice trailer home!
 
You don’t have to just take Vince’s word for it either. They interviewed a guy at a car show and he said “If you have to wash a car you’d be out of your mind not to use a Shamwow”. At first, I thought that was just advertising hype. But I looked it up and sure enough it was listed in the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) as a good diagnostic tool. Check it out for yourself! It’s in the index under “Chamois :Improper use of” 

 
In the webpage’s FAQ (bookmark it - you’ll thank me later) it tells us that you can “Cut it in half and you’ll have 2 towels”. I did some research on this too. While they don’t officially mention it on the webpage, I learned that if you cut those two towels you’ll then have four towels! Repeat, and you’ll have eight towels! Then sixteen! Carry on doing this and you’ll have an almost infinite number of increasingly smaller Shamwow towels! I know why they don’t mention this on the webpage. If someone tried cutting the towel down smaller than one Shamwow atom it might explode. I’m sure the people at Shamwow HQ didn’t want to be held liable for something like that.            

 But the Shamwow does come with a ten year warranty (or 36,000 miles)! How many of your ten year old used papers towels can you say that about ?      

 

The Shamwow is made in Germany. I feel that creating a product this wonderful is Germany’s way of saying “I’m Sorry”. And while I can’t speak for the people who died in the Holocaust , (Well, - I guess I actually could speak for them, but when I’ve done so in the past a lot of the families complained) for me personally, I just want to tell Germany “Thank you - apology accepted - From now on we’ll call it even!”.

YouTube Freak Of The Week

April 16, 2008

This is Kath.  Kath is a very fat person who posted 31 videos of herself/himself lip syncing and making odd faces.

 I’m not going to post a direct link to them because I’d rather that she didn’t find out that she is the first winner of “YouTube Freak Of The Week”.  Some people might take that the wrong way.  But if you go to youtube and search for the words “Kath” and “Lehrer” you’ll find them easy enough.

I’m sure there are plenty of people making dumb videos of themselves lip syncing. What makes these  special is all the comments people left. It must be a very sad day when you post a video of yourself and everyone gets into an argument over your gender.

Some of the comments people left about the videos:

this is sh**…this guy/gal (i don’t know what sex IT is!) is crap and ugly…omfg the dinosaurs have come back!

It’s a she?

haha…you are you a guy or a chick, you like look like dyke/transvesitte lmao
u look mental lol no offence. but you are good at lip syncing

that is a boy right?? but called kath?

thats a fuckin woman! lol

and to the guy that says its a women, get a grip mate

that’s not a girl. is it?

fat ppl are hard to tell gender like this poor fat basterd…

I agree with Java4422 and sorry why is your name kath you are clearly a boy you dick head!!!!

what are you? boy or girl?

Never knew Andy Milonakis had a sister….or brother…or whatever that thing is.

uhm…I think it’s a woman…

omdg how horrible…r u sure dats a gal?? he/she alert!

Guy?!

You look like a fucking heshe. GET A LIFE YA FUCKTARD!

Read the title, it’s some girl named Kath… I’ll leave it at that as anything else I say can be considered offensive (to her).

dude,are you a boy or a girl?

but dude or whatever you are. stop making vids

Kath? U sure…? U look like kevin!

like the early bird i would like to catch your worm. you handsome piece of lard.

You mean thats a woman? Could’ve fooled me..

I’m assuming a woman because his/her name is “Kath”, short for Katherine?…ummm…i

thought it was a really camp guy!

OMG! THATS A WOMEN! LOOOOL!

he or she?

I couldn’t figure out if it was a boy or girl but the necklace gave it away!!!!!!!

lol its pretty obvious shes a girl!! u guys blind!? h

is that person a boy or girl?

he/she cant lipsing evidentally

male or female?

It’s a lady!!

really sorry but is that a man or lady?!

Yeah, Yeah, Dude Looks Like Lady that Looks a lot like a dude…. I mean, dude!

durr…. sorry… The hair. I also don’t have my glasses on… I AM SO SORRY! Also I thought that usually dudes do this song. I AM SO SORRY!

This guy looks like a girl

PS - I like the phrase “you handsome piece of lard” a lot.

PPS - I’m not going to make one of these every week - I’m just calling this “Freak of the Week” because it rhymes.

Project update

April 16, 2008

Hey, remember when I wrote about this idea I had :  Project.  if you’re too lazy to click the link basically I was going to sell a book version of the first year of this web page.  I wasn’t going to sell it at a profit, I’d just charge  whatever the vanity press people charged me for a press run.

Well, I looked into it, and per book it would end up costing me $237 since only two people said they would want one.

You cheap bastards.

  But at least I’m getting some of the credit I deserve. I’ve just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Blogging.  Lets see that page with the pictures of cats saying stuff top this!

 

 

 

Search term poem 7

April 13, 2008

(Words people put into a search engine to get to this page)

 

How to tell if your ape is sick,

bed-ridden Richard Simmons?

 

looking for cliff notes on the encyclopedia.

I want to make lye soap like they did

In a country with very short stuff

 

horniest women

stealing people’s mail

lap dancer getting baptized

using only her lungs

 

what did people eat during the enlightenment?

racist mice

no testicles….

 

 

ape dressed like Santa

nude Christmas carolers

urinating in public…

 

Let me watch her

 

 

Thanks Wal-Mart Deli!

April 12, 2008

 

At first I thought that their serving suggestion was pretty “out there”. I’m not much of a cook, so I was a little taken aback by their suggestion to take the baked beans and put them into a bowl.

I’ve never did it that way before, but I was feeling pretty adventurous, so I decided to give it a try.

 And I’m glad I did! It was a great suggestion. It’s much less messy to eat out of a bowl than it is to eat the baked beans a handful at a time like I’ve been doing all these years.

Plus it’s seems hip and classy to be eating out of a bowl. I bet when James Bonds eats baked beans he uses a bowl too.

PS - And I’m not getting paid to write this. This is an unsolicited testimonial for the use of bowls while eating.

Plus, I never liked the idea of bowing

April 9, 2008

For about one month back when i was ten years old i took karate lessons.  The “Karate Kid” movie just came out, plus I thought it would be great to be able to break boards and blocks of ice like I had seen those karate guys do on TV.

While I was on my way to my fifth  lesson I walked past a K-mart and noticed that for the cost of just one lesson I could buy a nice hand saw and several ice cube trays with enough left over to buy a strip of fabric I could make into a belt of any color I wanted.

You better believe  I quit all that karate crap in a  big hurry!

I probably should have choose the plain black fabric, and not the one with the Bugs Bunny print on it for my belt.   But, overall,  I still think I ended  up way ahead of the game.

found art

April 8, 2008

I’ve been reading about “found art”.  It’s pretty great - all you have to do is find something, give it a title and tell people it’s art. That’s all it takes. You become an instant artist.

A lot of found artists just look around junkyards to find thier next work of art.

I think I have a better place to find potential works of art- art museums.  Most found artists  overlook this excellent source.

It saves a lot of time doing it my way.

You can’t swing a dead cat in a museum without hitting stuff you can use in your own art.

 Actually,  doing just that got me banned from the Museum of Modern Art. I think they made too big a deal out of it. I mean the cat was already dead when i found it. I’s not like I was killing cats just so I could have something to swing in art museums.

Anyway, there still plenty of museums left for me to find stuff I can use.

Plus, as a bonus, most of the time the art is already in a frame. That saves you a couple hundred dollars right there.

Here’s my first work of found art.  I call it “The Final Meal’

 

I wasn’t born Yesterday

April 8, 2008

I was talking to a guy about a job in sales a few weeks ago. He said the job didn’t have an hourly wage.  You just get a commission - for every car you sold you would get x amount of dollars.

He must have thought I was pretty stupid. I’m not good at math,  but even I know that “x”  isn’t  a number.

Maybe in Rome it is, but here it’s just a letter.