Filed under: MLB.TV, Obscure Cultural References, Our Happie Home, Thngs that Mattress Likes
Blue Velvet voices concern in Charge of the Loofah Brigade:
Toaster may have lots of toys, but poor Mattress!
Mattress,how about Loofah By The Inch? (insert a “Hello! here for humorous effect)
Is that a loofah in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Or perhaps a friend would be nice for Mattress:
A round mattress? That looks like a jelly doughnut.
Or maybe a curry donut.
Or maybe a sesame glutinous ball. (Wouldn’t want Bwana or Uncle DP to tackle that term, and especially not after reporting on bulging disks.)
Not to worry, re the toys. Life is very full with Toaster, Hoodie Bear, Candelabra, Teapot, the Tofu Guys, etc., etc., and so forth.
Blue Velvet writes:
Toaster, you may find this interesting: Bread as a display device
Boy, that’s a smart toaster!
Our Toaster doesn’t know how to use the telephone.
But now that he has his Magic Markers he can communicate by writing messages on himself. He could earn a little pocket money by being like the billboards at Yankee Stadium:
Bread would, of course, be his preferred commercial product:
He could become a marketing juggernaut!
On You can loyn a lot from Lydia!:
Blue Velvet writes:
I remember Kermit singing “Lydia” on “The Muppet Show” – if I’m not mistaken, it was to a “tattooed” Miss Piggy (then in her genesis). Fits in well with this being the Year of the Golden Pig.
He did. It was episode 102 in 1976. It used to be on YouTube, but Corporate Suits took it away. Here’s all that is left:
It wasn’t Miss Piggy, but another piggy — which did not sit well with the Queen of Oink.
And we’d like to remind you that while the rest of the world considers this the Year of the Pig, around here it is the Year of the Toaster.
rrgirl adds:
not too long ago, I saw a woman working in a store with the most amazing tattooes. she was rubinesque, to say the least, and dressed in a low-cut top that allowed more than a peek of cleavage. visible just above the neckline was a pair of eyes that roughly aligned with her nipples. huh. what in the world did that look like naked? what other ink was hidden? what a conversation starter…no, I didn’t ask. another mystery.
Toaster decided that a tattoo would hurt too much, so Bwana bought him a set of erasable Magic Markers. Now Toaster can do his own tattoos and wash them off after he wants to change his look.
Blue Velvet writes in The envelope, please …:
Thank you for your kind words, Toaster!
Interesting that you should like that Oscar, because there is a link between that and the Hollywood Oscar: a few weeks ago on AMC’s Sunday Morning Shootout, the director of “Cars,” John Lasseter, stated he was going to arrive at the Oscars in the Wienermobile.
P.S. The director of your favorite Piggie Movie – George Miller – won for Best Animated Film last night for “Happy Feet,” so all is not lost.
Wow! Spiffo-diffo!
Toaster has happy feet. Toaster’s feet are very happy. Toaster is basically a very happy appliance.
George Miller is a great director. Toaster thinks his oeuvre outshines that of Orson Welles. (Oh, please. Citizen Kane versus the Piggie Movie? No contest.)
Now that Mr. Miller has done piggie and penguin movies, maybe he’ll do a Wienerdog Warrior movie next:
Toaster doesn’t like the Academy. He hasn’t liked them ever since they didn’t vote the Piggie Movie Best Picture in 1995. That lousy Mel Gibson movie won, and all that did was encourage him. And look where that got us.
Toaster likes Blue Velvet for all the neat-o movie references, obscure and not-so-obscure. He thinks you should get an Oscar.
(Toaster likes this Oscar better.)
Filed under: Time Begins on Opening Day
Blue Velvet writes:
Finally, with the advent of spring training (Go Bucs!), here’s an article on strange baseball injuries):
Spring Training Is Here, Beware Those Strange Baseball Injuries
Baseball is a lot more dangerous than people realize. Here’s a list of recent ouchies. No mention of bulging disks, however, which is a good thing as far as Bwana and Uncle DP are concerned. Bwana is hoping that Yankee Carl Pavano recovers from ButtGate, which prevented him from pitching all last season.
Toaster plays hard, too, but luckily he has avoided serious injury. At worst all we have to do is put a Hello Kitty band-aid on him, and then send him back out to play.
He’s a tough little appliance.
Blue Velvet queries in Not that long ago in a galaxy not too far away …:
Jawa…or Ob-Wan?
Hokey smokes! You’re right! I got it all wrong!
(Hoodie Bear also points out that Bill is way too tall to be a Jawa.)
And while he doesn’t have a lightsaber, Bill has that headset which he uses to similar effect in crushing his competition.
Toaster thinks the lightsaber is way cooler:
[odeo=http://odeo.com/audio/9425563/view]
Filed under: MLB.TV, Obscure Cultural References, Our Happie Home, Things That Toaster Likes
rrgirl replies to 狂 瀉:
OMG! he was nearly 80! we should hope to follow in his footsteps. it’s fun to watch him warm up to the song as it goes along.
now I have a Lydia earworm…and a smile.
We all like it, too. Showmanship knows no age.
Toaster and Hoodie have been waltzing around the house all day singing the song at the top of their lungs. It was driving Bwana crazy; luckily he had to leave for work.
Toaster wants to get a tattoo now. Bwana said he could have one. But only one, lest he go all Rod Steiger and turn into The Illustrated Toaster.
Or Dennis Rodman.
Blue Velvet points out in Oinkiegami:
The Tofu Guys’ great disguise (minus the specs) looks like one of the robots in the Star Wars: A New Hope. Check out the segment when C-3PO and R2D2 (distant relatives of Toaster I’m sure, in both time and space) are captured by the Jawas and are herded itno the bowels of the Sandcrawler.
We can’t find a picture of that scene, but will keep scouring the Internets.
We did, however, find something shocking:
Bill Belichick is a Jawa!
Filed under: MLB.TV, Obscure Cultural References, Our Happie Home
rc queries in Oinkiegami:
groucho is chinese?
Everyone is Chinese on Chinese New Year!
The Tofu Guys really like Groucho and were oh-so pleased with the nifty disguises Toaster got for them. They would like very much to follow in Groucho’s footsteps:
… and maybe even develop their own line of Chinese tattoos. They think inking people in a foreign language would be a whole lot of fun. It would also fulfill their desire to aid in cross-cultural understanding and contribute to world peace.
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