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August Megaparty #25: New Tic Tacs!


I had to go buy a birthday card this afternoon, and while the lady at my local pharmacy rung up a card and gift bag that cost three times more than any cards and gift bags should, I spotted the weird packages of Tic Tacs seen above. And then...I goofed.

While my mind said "OOOH!" like it usually does whenever strange new candy is first spotted, this time, my mouth decided to follow suit. My dumb stupid mouth. I don't think I can ever go back to this particular pharmacy. I'll forever be known as the "guy who 'ooohed' over new Tic Tacs." They're probably talking shit about me right now.

Anyway, starting with the lesser of the two, "Citrus Twist" Tic Tacs blend lemony yellow and limey green mints together for an assault on the eyes and the tongue and -- if you count the pleasant chattering of a box of Tic Tacs in one's pocket -- the ears. Pretty sure I could do without another lemon Tic Tac for the rest of my life, but the lime mints are at least interesting, and very, very limey. They would've been better served ditching the lemons, keeping the limes and calling 'em "Margarita" Tic Tacs. Tell me you wouldn't buy "Margarita" Tic Tacs. With a straight face, I mean.

The "Fruit Festival" Tic Tacs are a bigger production; they come in a BIG box that makes me hands look so demure, and the label tells me that they're, in fact, a "limited edition" variation. These are really, really good. Unless you're cherry picking with a watchful eye, there's no way to prepare your mouth for the sensations of various surprise fruit flavors as they dissolve and conspire to make all the saliva in your mouth taste like fruit salad. I don't even mind the lemon Tic Tacs so much when they're hitching rides with cherry and orange.

I mean WHOA HEY, new Tic Tacs! Can today possibly have any more major events in store for me?

Posted by Matt on 08/25/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 80 comments

He’s transcendently dreamy in Little Buddha. And he hacks his hair off. I have a thing about hacking hair off :P See also Blow Dry for Rachael’s own beautiful rendition.

Fear not, Lake House is still better than Chain Reaction, which has consistantly held off all contenders for worst Keanu movie. Although, you’ll notice that every time Rachel Wiess and him have been together, he gets her in a bathtub. Check it, its true.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/25/2006 11:08 PM

I LOVE orange Tic-Tacs, I gobble them down by the handful! Never cared much for the mint varieties, but these two new fruit flavors sound pretty good to me.

Anyway, nobody needs to be ashamed about saying “Ooooh” to new candy or buying something geeky. In my experience, the best way to be into geek-stuff is to have no shame about it whatsoever.

For example, I read “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” comic-books which I buy at the grocery store. I am an adult male and this is a very little-girlie thing to read. The only reason I DON’T get made fun of for it is because, I buy it with absolute confidence. If you don’t *act* embarrased, you won’t *be* embarassed.

It’s the same reason I was able to use my TMNT lunch-box well into High-School (until my house burned down destroying all my childhood treasures), without taking any shit about it. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 08/25/2006 11:19 PM

Tetsu speaks with great wisdom. It’s how I was able to walk back into my highschool to buy football tickets, wearing pink shoes.

And buy Josie and the Pussycats. Then the soundtrack. I played with what would be considered girl’s toys when I was a kid too. Sweet Secrets were the shizznite. Pastel, female transformers. I was all over that. Just have to do it with Purpose.

Plus, I talk about how dreamy Keanu is :D

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/25/2006 11:28 PM

Alright, Child’s Play is on tv! Life is good.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt(#2?) @ 08/25/2006 11:42 PM

Reminded me of when I walked into Sears the other night and said, “Oh My GOD, look at all the TV’s!” Then quickly diverted myself from the 2 sales people directly ahead of me that turned to look back.

I know, TV’s and Tic Tacs aren’t on the same level, but I still felt like a jackass, even over a TV!

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 08/25/2006 11:47 PM

Ihaq and Daniel: thank god. Now I feel like less of a freak. Still think tic tacs that aren’t in the mint genre are gross though.

Chestnuts roasted by Yet Another Matt @ 08/25/2006 11:49 PM

I love me some Tic Tacs. Only the white ones, though–I eat those a box at a time. I still wish they hadn’t recently redesigned them and made them bigger, though.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 08/25/2006 11:49 PM

I dare say the worst Keanu movie is Johnny Mnemonic.

I have to admit I love the cyberspace sequences, and the props are quite nice as well.

I also like orange Tic Tacs.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 08/25/2006 11:52 PM

Once upon a time, I was in Spencers flipping through the posters. Now, understand that I don’t put posters of scantily clad women up in my room. I’ve got bands (Blink and Green Day), movies (Constantine and V for Vendetta), and games (a beautiful giant Squall over my desk). That sort of thing, but the people in Spencers obviously did not have this knowledge.

Point being, I basically scream “Aww man, all they’ve got is girls!!” I got more than one funny look for that one.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/25/2006 11:57 PM

I own two copies of Mnemonic. Regular and Superbit, because those are better, I swear.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/26/2006 12:00 AM

Click my name to see the best wrestling match of your life! It’s a no holds barred falls count anywhere match in Japan between two upcoming young rookies. I should mention,one of them has psychic powers like Jean Grey.

Chestnuts roasted by Kid Nicky @ 08/26/2006 12:04 AM

Doubt it was any better than this “Lucha Libre” match I saw on Galavision a week ago. I was flipping through the channels and there it was on Galavision. The best match included, as it’s LEAST strange wrestler, a midget in a Chucky costume! His opponents included “El Zorro” who had two wooden swords, a guy in goth makeup called “Manson”, a guy dressed like tthe Aliens from the movie “Aliens”, a guy with a skull mask with a rainbow mullet wig, a guy dressed only in his wrestling mask and a pair of black briefs with the Batman symbol on his ass and a Yin & Yang on his crotch who kept dancing like a stripper, and someone dressed like some weird psychedelic rainbow alien /dragon/ butterfly creature that I refer to as Lollipop Dragon.

Believe it or not, it gets weirder. The “Lollipop Dragon” as I call him summoned his simular friends, each one a different color, the green one especially strange. AND THEY TURNED ON HIM! It actually included green LD holding back Rainbow LD while Alien guy kicks him in the ‘nads! I had no idea what the hell was going on the whole time but it was one of the COOLEST things I’ve EVER seen on TV!

I think I want to put on a banana costume, move to Mexico, and become a Luchador!

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 08/26/2006 1:47 AM

Did A Scanner Darkly get a wide release? I don’t think it ever screened in my state. I saw it at college theater in Austin last month. Wasn’t expecting much from it, but I thought it was good.

Chestnuts roasted by Astro Zombie @ 08/26/2006 2:04 AM

Yeah well I was in 7-11 the other day buying some beer and at the counter I notice some pogs causing me to go “Oh boy pogs are back!”..thing was I wasn’t being sarcastic..and they’re MARVEL POGS ..ahem..no wonder I don’t got a girl..or friends..

Chestnuts roasted by NightJay @ 08/26/2006 2:24 AM

Attack of the Show! said Scanner got a nationwide release. But they LIED. I expect that out of Perriera. I trusted you Olivia!

Cheat!s on. and then at 4 we’ve got the Star Jones episode of X-Play. It’s quite delightful. It has a Lake House joke and everything.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/26/2006 2:37 AM

Tetsu-well,okay it can’t top that. But I thought X-E’ers might appreiciate the DYI home camcorder “let’s be idiots in public” aspect of it.

Chestnuts roasted by Kid Nicky @ 08/26/2006 2:42 AM

Knegative: You have a… a… Squall poster? :x Where’d you find that?! :)

Ok, I admit I haven’t done any digging for FF posters, but Jeebus, I’d love that. Would love one of Sephiroth or Cloud from Advent Children even more. :D

*must dig out Squall and Laguna figurines!*

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 08/26/2006 3:53 AM

Ryane, I’ll be with you in a second. First:

“Later in the show we’ll review a Mega Man game. That’s right, another Mega Man game. We thought they were done for the summer. But they just keep coming back….Like the Herpes”

Alright. I have the limited edition version of the strategy guide for VIII. They still publish the guide, but it has a white background now and is sans poster. You can find this sad thing at Barnes & Noble. There was a couple in mine when I bought the guide for X, about 6 months ago.

Mine, however, was purchased the day I bought VIII, which was probably less than a week after it was released. I wasn’t in the habit of reserving everything at GameStop, at that point yet. Mine has a silver hologram cover and had the poster in it. I love it alot. It’s black near the top so I can watch the reflection of my TV in it while I’m on the computer.

I’m going to link the store connected to FinalFantasyHybrid to my name. Can’t recall if they have the exact poster, but they’ve got alot of them, and wall scrolls, stickers, and all kinds of cool Final Fantasy stuff.

Here’s a pic of the one I have.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/26/2006 4:51 AM

Whoops, the most imporant link didn’t work.

You’ll be interested in this
http://www.gkworld.com/product/GKW09639

And this
http://www.gkworld.com/product/GKW08241

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/26/2006 5:12 AM

knegative-I never knew I should be ashamed to love Josie and The Pussycats I love that movie. As for the soundtrack I love it so much that I bought it lost it and had somebody burn me a copy that I carry around in the original case. I love Du Jour too.

Chestnuts roasted by mrjayberry @ 08/26/2006 11:36 AM

Knegative: Okay, between playing with girl toys as a kid and the poster story, you’ve just won yourself a fan :D I seriously almost spit out Coke when I read the poster thing.

My biggest embarrassment probably comes from playgrounds. I don’t GO to playgrounds unless I had a reason to be at that park or something, but when I’m at one it’s impossible to resist the temptation to swing or climb on stuff. Luckily I’ve found playing on playgrounds to be socially acceptable if you’re roughly under 30, have other people roughly under 30 ALSO on the playground with you, and the playground isn’t full of children.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 08/26/2006 2:26 PM

OK, I am on vacation right now, but I found a computer with internet acess, but only until monday. (crappy dialup acess, but a compy nonetheless)

I spent all of Thursday night and all of Friday sick probably due to mild food poisoning from bad leftover coleslaw. I’m fine now, and here’s my answers from last blog’s survey:

Last Album – Alapalooza
Last book – Don’t remember
Last tv show – Flavor of Love
Last movie at home – probably Blue Colar Comedy Tour: One For The Road
Last movie at theatre – Clerks II
Video game played – Smash Bros Melee

Now for this blog: Don’t really care much for Tic-Tacs. And Clever Screen Name, just be lucky I wasn’t here to get on your case on misquoting Simpsons (well, you completely spelled Moe’s name wrong too) ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 08/26/2006 2:54 PM

What if they combined TicTacs with the goo from the chewing gums we talked about earlier? It would be like a party in your mouth and everybody was throwing up.
I’m really surprised that there never was a Tick/TicTac cross-promotion when the cartoon came out. I imagine a Deadly Bulb dispenser with squealing Pig Leg.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/26/2006 3:06 PM

Thanks Jazzy!

mrjayberry: I’ve been fighting the uphill battle of loving Josie and the Pussycats since I first saw it all those years ago on Encore. People have these silly preconcieved notions of masculinity. They’re kinda the fundamental assumption that make my every action funny in the eyes of others.

But I am certainly glad to know someone else who knows the joy of what is (without irony) one of my top 10 favorite albums. I’ll have everyone know that most of the songs were crafted by Adam from Foutains of Wayne, and that Adam Duritz himself co-wrote Spin Around and You Don’t See Me. Tack on the fact that Rachael, Rosario, and Tara did the choral backing vocals and you have miracle of modern science.

Letters to Cleo!!! 4evah.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/26/2006 4:47 PM

OK. Gearing up for the rumble.

SNT! TONIGHT! MANIMAL VS DOHOPOKI!

Will Manny put on the MANICURSE?
Or will Doho POKI his lights out?

BE HERE!

Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws Cole @ 08/26/2006 6:23 PM

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