L.K. Peterson's Site of Writings, Random Thoughts & Doodles
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Headline at CNN.com: Why Has Paris Hilton Disappeared?
Make it happen again! Make it happen again!
Posted by Lairbo on 12/07/2009 at 08:28 AM in Celebrity Hijinks, Dumbass, Media Circus, People, Places and/or Things, Random Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Intended to be part of a year-long "Over 40" theme celebrating the show's 40th year on the air, Mercury was a muppet-of-a-certain-age with a mountain lion-inspired face and an eye for the younger set.
Test audiences, however, were revolted by the character's baby-doll negligee that revealed sheer black stockings, garter belt and merry widow underneath. Reactions to Mercury's breathily voiced attentions toward Elmo and flirtatious manner with Big Bird ranged from "Ewwwwww" and "That's just wrong in so many ways" to audience members rushing the stage to attack the puppeteers.
Wardrobe aside, it may have been Mercury's ever-present wine spritzer and her catchphrase, "Happy to see me or just glad it's not Jeff Dunham's arm up your ass?" that proved to be the last straw.
Sources inside the venerable children's show production company say that all of the prototypes for Mercury have been disassembled and an intern has been assigned to monitor YouTube for any test footage that might have got out of the studio.
In Other News: Facebook will now allow linking to imaginary friends.
Posted by Lairbo on 11/09/2009 at 05:05 AM in Business Unusual, Media Circus, Random Thoughts, Television | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 10/28/2009 at 05:11 AM in Dictionarium, Illiterature, People, Places and/or Things, Random Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 07/12/2009 at 03:46 PM in Cartoon, Food and Drink, Mash Ups, New Products, Random Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 01/03/2009 at 06:47 PM in Dumbass, People, Places and/or Things, Random Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 04/30/2008 at 06:27 PM in Food and Drink, People, Places and/or Things, Random Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 03/24/2008 at 05:50 PM in Advertising, Mash Ups, Random Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 06/15/2004 at 10:45 AM in Random Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Look for these conditions soon
Posted by Lairbo on 06/11/2004 at 10:42 AM in Random Thoughts, The Animal World | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 04/29/2004 at 10:52 PM in Random Thoughts, Television | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Corporate sponsors routinely splash their names all over events or stadium they've ponied up the money to name after themselves. It's as American as Mom's Apple Pie®. Yet, when it comes to sponsoring politicians corporations get all bashful about which elected officials are on their payroll.
This doesn't make any sense to us.
You'd think they would insist that the elected officials they've bought and paid for wear their brand proudly. Athletes wear the gear of whatever shoe and equipment company pays them to. Right up until they get arrested, after which they're dropped faster than, well, an athlete endorser who's been arrested. . .
Shouldn't politicians be held to at least the same standard of corporate sponsorship ethics as professional athletes? We here at the Ant Farmer's Almanac think so.
We propose the following: Anyone running for elected office should have to wear a NASCAR-style jump suit, emblazoned with patches displaying the names, logos, trademarks, etc., of all their contributors.
Each of these patches would be sized and placed proportionately according to the amount of the contribution. The largest contributors' names would be bigger and placed prominently enough — chest level, say — to always be visible above a lectern, podium or other object(s) that the candidate might be standing behind. This would also give cameramen the option of shooting the backsides of candidates just for the fun of seeing what small-fry contributor is on the guy's butt.
Once elected, the officeholder would be legally obligated to wear the jump suit during business hours and to any and all public functions and appearances, at any speaking engagement anywhere, any time and especially at sessions of whatever legislative body he is a part of.
The advantages are obvious. First, everyone would know who paid to get this guy in office and, therefore, who's holding his leash. He can deny that there's any connection between that pharmaceutical company's $100,000 campaign "contribution" and his vote against a bill allowing manufacture of a generic version of that company's biggest seller, and maybe there isn't one, but the public will get valuable insight into his thinking process. Many of the athletes who wear-for-pay don't appear in any traditional advertisments for the brand or claim it makes them perform better; it's implied and fans are left to draw their own conclusions.
It doesn't have to be all negative, either. Who wouldn't like a politician sporting, say, the Coca-Cola logo, front and center. Everybody likes Coke. Have a congressman and a smile! The downside would be that rival companies play out their competition as impromptu infomercials on the floor of the Senate: "Mr. Chairman, point of order! As the senator from PepsiCo I take exception to the preceding statement that 'Things go better with Coke!' and move to strike that remark from the record. . ."
Even at that, it might even make C-Span almost watchable.
Posted by Lairbo on 02/10/2004 at 06:36 PM in Business Unusual, Current Affairs, Media Circus, Politics Unusual, Random Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: ads, campaign contributions, Congress, NASCAR
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But really, he doesn't look a day over 350 . . .
Posted by Lairbo on 12/11/2003 at 05:15 PM in Random Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Lairbo on 12/04/2003 at 04:51 PM in Dumbass, Random Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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At the subsequent trial, hordes of other former child companions would come out of the woodwork — like so many Boston altar boys — and, to no one's surprise (except maybe Jermaine), the full breadth and scope of Jackson's weirdness would finally be confirmed.
Posted by Lairbo on 11/25/2003 at 04:21 PM in Current Affairs, Music, Random Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Bowling Trophy Wife.
Posted by Lairbo on 11/23/2003 at 11:37 AM in Random Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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