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Hopefully More Slap Than Chop

BREAKING NEWS: Vince Offer, the Sham-Wow guy, has been ARRESTED for BEATING UP A PROSTITUTE. No cloth in the world could possibly be absorbent enough to soak up our tears. Sorry. Boo. But seriously, that's fucking awful....  CONTINUE READING HOPEFULLY MORE SLAP THAN CHOP»

Posted on March 27, 2009 in (22 comments)
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The Billy Mays Versus Vince Offer Feud Is Going To Tear The Infomercial Community Apart

I haven't seen Death To Smoochy, and I know it's supposed to be bad, but if Death To Smoochy, a movie about feuding children's show mascots, can be greenlighted, then the MASSIVE FEUD brewing between classic infomercial guy Billy Mays...  CONTINUE READING THE BILLY MAYS VERSUS VINCE OFFER FEUD IS GOING TO TEAR THE INFOMERCIAL COMMUNITY APART»

Posted on February 11, 2009 in , (14 comments)
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Vince Offer's New Year's Resolution Is To Improve His Already Half-Decent Spanish

With Vince Offer it's never a question of whether what he's saying is amazing or not, it's a question of how amazing, and how much you want it as your ringtone. Even in a foreign language that some people...  CONTINUE READING VINCE OFFER'S NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION IS TO IMPROVE HIS ALREADY HALF-DECENT SPANISH»

Posted on January 5, 2009 in (3 comments)
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You're Going To Love Vince Offer's Nuts (Nullus)

OK, at this point Vince Offer (ShamWow) is just fucking with us. (thanks for the tip, Edith) Incredible. Life's hard enough as it is, you don't want to cry anymore. I love that he's in a kitchen but still wearing...  CONTINUE READING YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE VINCE OFFER'S NUTS (NULLUS)»

Posted on December 17, 2008 in (25 comments)
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All I Can Say Is "Sham Wow"

Tipster Christopher sent this in with the comment "introducing the most un-camera-friendly hybrid of C. Thomas Howell & Billy Mays," but I actually like Vince, the "eh, whatever" infomercial spokesman for Shamwow, the extremely absorbent magic towels, because he seems...  CONTINUE READING ALL I CAN SAY IS "SHAM WOW"»

Posted on August 20, 2008 in (17 comments)
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