Hello Sluggo:

Our entry into the bizarre world of Toenail Removal videos on YouTube. It’s lame, but it’s real.

I’ll link directly to 2Girls1Cup, but BoingBoing won’t. Can’t say I blame them, really, since they probably have way more money invested in their web presence, not to mention a rep to uphold. Me? Heheh, I don’t really care.

If you’ve read this far without clicking the link, you’ll benefit in reading my NSFW (not safe for work, or, alternately, now show friends and workmates) warning: Don’t click the link if you’re sitting in a precarious situation in your cubicle at your place of employment. You know what I mean.

If you clicked it already, God bless ya.

Now, as far as watching 2Girls1Cup with family around, be my guest. You might even get a good laugh like this guy did in the video below. But don’t say I didn’t warn ya.

Known as I am for my hatred of the Holiday Season®, would you be surprised at all to find that I have chosen Goatse as an inspirational holiday illustration? Of course not. So, while supplies last (i.e., until it is removed), I would like to share with you my vision of Holiday Cheer.

And if it is removed, here is a wee movie for you to enjoy.

No, I don’t mean the video is unoriginal, I mean it is not mine. I’m simply embedding it in my blog ‘cos I can’t think of anything original to write at the moment. And ‘cos I like beer. This video makes me want to, well, drink beer. So I think I will. Maybe it’ll make you want to drink beer too. Let’s all drink beer together, shall we?

“The voyage of a beer glass from Montpelier Grove, London to the pub, The Pineapple. Song by Rob Manuel (b3ta) & Danieli Davoli with video from Rob Manuel and Joel Veitch (rathergood). Huzzah.”

Old 1970’s television commercial for MANDOM, Japan’s answer to Hai Karate! men’s cologne… Thanks to OceanEdge for unearthing this video in the Gaijin in Japan message box!

I about shit myself when I saw this TV ad for Snickers starring Mr. T! This spot apparently runs in the UK and Australia… We probably won’t be seeing it here in the US anytime soon.

I thought it would have been better with the A Team theme music, so I “remixed” it and added a little Dave Chapelle sound byte to give Mr. T’s delivery a little more “oomph.” Hope you all like it. Mars’ sales of the Snickers brand will now undoubtedly grow by leaps and bounds.

I wish I could have seen more episodes of Travel Sick, the UK television program which sent its hapless host, Grub Smith, to locations across the globe to complete a series of “undesirable challenges.” Alas, Comedy Central apparently didn’t think its viewers enjoyed seeing Grub cleaning a shit-covered Korean squat toilet with a toothbrush, fuck a watermelon in the desert or tattoo the ass of a New Guinea tribeswoman. Me? I loved it. American television should sit back and learn a few things from Mr. Smith. Maybe then we could rid the airwaves of skank like Nancy Grace.

The closest thing we have on TV here to even rival the genius of Travel Sick is Tony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, both of whom should make the trip over the Atlantic and buy Grub a pint of his favorite for paving the way to their collective success. I doubt either of them would have the cajones to pull off the shit in the following clip…

For those of us who grew up in the 1970’s, Charles Nelson Reilly and Nipsey Russell were very familiar faces on television, especially to those of us who skipped school and stayed home to catch Matchgame and To Tell The Truth in the afternoon… I apparently hadn’t thought much of them in recent years, as I didn’t know they are both dead.

You would think I would have payed enough attention to have heard that Nipsey Russell had gone to meet his maker, as we have a rubber chew toy named after him… I guess I had more important things going on around that time in 2005. Hrmph.

Fuck a whole bunch of this rain in Texas. I just thought I’d get that off my chest.

While Sharon made dinner tonight, Kei sat in my lap and I indulged her in fireworks videos from YouTube. Ever since Austin’s July 4th fireworks display in Zilker Park, she’s been running around yelling “Fires, fires, fires!” Like, all the time. I thought that if I let her watch a few fireworks videos, she might get it out of her system, but noooooo… Now she’s interjecting it into everything, from the ABC song (”A B C D E F G… fires! fires! …) to This Old Man (”This old man, he played one… fires! fires! fires!)…

I have created a pyromaniacal monster.

On the other hand, she really enjoyed the kittens and puppies… Let’s just hope she doesn’t set fire to them.

I am speechless.

Even after watching several Tay Zonday videos, the shock I feel when he first opens his mouth is amazing.

He’s probably heard it all, so hopefully he won’t be put off by this description: His look is part mid-80’s Michael Jackson with a strange Gary Coleman vibe which I think probably comes from his seemingly diminutive stature. But when he sings, it’s James Earl Jones/Paul Robeson throaty goodness. I mean all of this with the best intentions and respect!

Words escape me. Watch for yourself. Check out his other videos, too.

Spot the typo! Freudian slip or diss on YouTube? Can someone say proofreader?

Check out this video for some hideous iPhone ripoffs that are being marketed in China.

Really, people, if you have the money to drop on something like this, one would assume you’ve been paying at least enough attention to the iPhone hype to know what it looks like.

Then again, if you have that much cash to throw away on something you know nothing about, maybe you deserve it.

Mike had this up over at GnJ and then took it down for some reason… CIA leaning on ya, Mikee? I wanted my wife to see it, so here it is. A classic. The truth.