Few people remember the mid-1990s collaboration between Richard Bachman and John Feinstein:
The harrowing account of a golf game with a semi-indinite number of holes, where any player falling more than 3 strokes behind loses their life, until only one remains.
TITLE: A Long Walk Spoiled
Scrub Daddy has a new holiday themed set.
But I think a lot of folks forget that the whole brand is just the sanitized, commercialized version of a much older tradition:
In Northern European folklore, after the Yule meal is finished and the family is pleasantly full, there will be a knock at the door. Then the Scrubfather enters with his hogbristle brush to scour the souls of any children who've refused to help with after-dinner cleanup or other chores in the previous year.
During the height of the dispute, Shadowy Men released the official statement:
"You find yourself boxing with a god, you best bow out."
In reaponse, MTV News quoted Richie Ranchero as shouting:
"The Huevosaurus bows to no one!"
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The “Palookaville” controversy:
In the late 1990s Hurvos Rancheros produced their album "Palookaville Flats" during the same time frame that Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet were finalizing their own album "Palookaville Orbit". Neither would be released amidst acrimonious lawsuits and accusations of name stealing, and both are now considered lost albums.
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#NotionalReality #FictionalBeef
#ShadowyMenOnAShadowyPlanet
#HuevosRancherosBand
@chgowiz
Just had the intrusive shitpost thought that the former Soviet Union, not to be outdone by capitalist swine, of course had its own knockoff version of the Nutty Buddy, with a name that roughly translates as "Comrade Legume".
@lowqualityfacts
Not many folks remember, but in the early 1990s they briefly test marketed a rebrand to "Dunky D's", trying to attract the younger, "More Xtreme!" demographic.
But grunge-bedecked skateboarding teens, hanging around and waxing every curb and railing in the parking lot, did not mix well with Dunkin's traditional law enforcement clientel. So the attempt was deemed an utter failure, and was lost to the annals of history.
Wife and I discussing our kids' progress in getting ready, as I wait in the car to take them to school.
Sometimes a simple typo can become the seed for a rich new vein of familial mythology.
"Get back on the snail" - To resume an activity that didn't previously cause one difficulty or injury.
"He who rides a snail, always can dismount."
~ lyric from Patsy Ann Noble's 1967 followup to 'He who Rides A Tiger'.
"Ride the snail! Never wearin' clothes until I touch the leaf and flag."
~ lyric from Poison's 1992 followup to 'Ride the Wind'.
@lowqualityfacts
Crazier still:
Any common moth that crawls inside a monarch butterfly cocoon can invoke the "King me!" rule to swap species.
Amazing!
Had this idea for a party game called "Truth or Duluth".
But didn't want to burden Minnesota with the massive influx of folks harboring horrifying or embarrassing secrets.
Peter Kisner ≈