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November 4, 2009

Rhett And Link Have Made Another Great Commercial "Your haircut is only limited by your imagination, and by how far along we are in the semester."

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September 1, 2009

Kid, From Kid N' Play, Dresses Like A Big Boy Now

Oh man. It is sad when he says "I know you're wondering what is Christopher 'Kid' Reid is doing in a fine suit and tie," because prior to him saying that I wasn't wondering at all. I fully expect someone in his mid-40s to occasionally, if not regularly, wear a fine suit and tie. Even if that person built his career on dressing in Cross Colours, I would not be, like weirded out to discover that sometimes he doesn't wear Clown Shorts From 1992. He's an adult now. So him saying that he knows I'm wondering is what actually MAKES me wonder. What is he doing in that fine suit and tie? Did he steal it from someone who is still famous? Perhaps he is wearing it to a job interview? Or to take his real estate broker's licensing exam? OR MAYBE HIS HOMEBOY GOT SHOT, BECAUSE THAT IS A TYPE OF JOKE THAT WE STILL MAKE AND THINK WORKS IN 2009. Sadface. (Thanks for the tip, Sammy.)

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June 15, 2009

Let's Start This Week Out With A Stoned Dog

A lady was walking her dog in a Seattle park on Friday when he came back from a run acting strangely and moving his head from side to side. She took him to the emergency vet and it turns out he was totally stoned! This is this weekend's top news story:

My favorite part of this story is the heated, and in some cases, vicious, argument it's somehow spawned in the YouTube comments about whether this story was anti-pot propaganda or whether you can get stoned from eating raw weed:

YouTube commenters just never take the weekend off.

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June 8, 2009

That's Your Lawyer: Berger And Green

Your honor, as you can see from video Exhibit A, my client, a tax-paying father of two, was simply minding his own business when his car was cruelly THROWN 100 FEET IN THE AIR, AND ALSO ON FIRE. Now, you're going to hear the defense use a lot of fancy words today, like "professional stunt" and "insane explosion" and "dangerous recklessness" but I'm not here to take you to Dictionary School. Instead I want you to think about my client, a law-abiding, humble man who just happened to be wearing a flame retardant jump suit and a fiberglass racing helmet lined with fireproof Nomex® fabric. Your honor, do we really want to live in a country where a man traveling home to see his children after a long day at the office can't hit a ramp at 170 miles per hour in a customized sedan with rollbars installed and a break-out windshield? That's not what America means to me, and I hope for the future of our great nation that you feel the same. I rest my case. (Via HolyTaco.)

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May 19, 2009

Good Ole Tom's Will Buy Your Dead Husband's Coins

After he passed, I used to just sit in my husband's chair, breathing in his scent of hair oil and roast beef, wondering when it would be my turn, but then I found a mildewed envelope with some of Raymond's old coins inside. I used to think that he just used his collection as an excuse to avoid spending time with me. Well now he's in heaven, collecting God's coins as an excuse not to spend time with the angels. I took those bastards to Good Ole Tom's and I got $2,500. I used it to buy my dog Popcorn some new barrettes, and I bought myself a shortwave radio so that I can hear the police band. 12 ambulances went out today. None of them were for me. Thank you, Tom. (Via That'sImportant.)

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May 7, 2009

Creepy Talking Baby Ads Should Be Left To The Professionals

(Before I leave for the day on a top secret, very silly Videogum mission): The folks at Florence And White Ford saw the E Trade baby commercials and thought "Why not us?" With unintended results:

I think the laugh after he calls his mom a "mothertrucker" is the tipping point of that commercial. Also, calling his mom a "mothertrucker." (Via Warming Glow.)

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May 1, 2009

Purnell's Old Folks Sausage: "It's Goooooooood"

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You know how cooking shows and commercials have special chef/artists on staff who do all kinds of stuff to the food so it'll look good photographed, because in real life all food basically looks disgusting unless it's sitting there about to be eaten by you? This kind of adorably terrible commercial is why those people get paid so well:

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April 22, 2009

Life Imitating YouTube Imitating Cable Access Furniture Ads

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You've probably already noticed this by now, but local commercials for furniture stores are fucking insane. Between Schweig Engel and Flea Market Montgomery and Norton Furniture, apparently you cannot sell a sofa in your community the way you can sell barbecue or oil changes. Your pitch must be completely unhinged and occasionally upsetting. Now, a couple of dudes in North Carolina have made a commercial for a regional furniture store that is a knowing, winking tribute to this weird and unexplained trend, and yet, because the trend is so bizarre and unselfconsciously bananas already, it's hard to tell the difference:

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