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SNT, Starring Charmin Bears.


Wow, I totally forgot it was Saturday -- and I guess, technically, the first Saturday of the holiday season. Thanksgiving was nice and normal; we went home with the pan full of leftovers seen above, which will undoubtedly sit in the fridge for a week until one of us admits that it's trash and can't be kept for sentimental reasons.

I didn't partake in any Black Fridaying, aside from the online version of it. It's funny how much crap you'll buy when sites tell you that the prices are only good for four more hours. I ordered around 15 things last night, and ended up canceling about half of the orders because my higher brain function kicked in and told me that the intended recipients wouldn't really want those gifts, even if I told them what great deals I got on 'em.

I guess this would be a reasonable time to mention that, last week, I spotted people dressed as toilet bowls and Charmin bears near work. Aside from being the most blatant "our product is to WIPE YOUR SHIT" advertisers in the toilet paper industry, the Charmin folks are now edgy marketers -- they're doing this thing where public restrooms are temporarily set up in the city, thus helping touring tourists take a piss without begging a crusty restaurant owner first. The toilet bowl people and costumed bears handed out flyers telling people with their legs crossed where to head.


These guys were right near Toys 'R' Us. I went to check out their video games department, and they seriously had about 500 trillion Nintendo Wii systems. As fate would have it, the Wii is going to be my Christmas present, and thus, I've been forbidden to buy one early. But, if any of you are in or near NY and still Wii hunting, go there. They have plenty.

Got lots of stuff to get done, so, SNT away!

Posted by Matt on 11/25/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 102 comments

Plus they leave the seat up.

Chestnuts roasted by Trish @ 11/26/2006 2:39 AM

Mystie, that’s what you get for buying the Pringles with trivia questions printed on them. Doubly addictive.

Haven’t had SBuck’s Pep Mocha yet, but we’ve been living on the gingerbread lattes at work.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 11/26/2006 2:42 AM

Don’t forget the stubble all over the bathroom :x
The gingerbread and the egg nog are both good, but I swear they put nicotine in that peppy mocha. It’s irresistable.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 11/26/2006 2:47 AM

I’m still here. I was over at the Tube for a good while enjoying some humorous Advent Children Dubs.

That has got to be the most dubbed movie in the history of YouTube, be it just to set it to appropriate songs, or rerecord dialogue, or cut it to ribbons (in good ways).

I’d love to be able to steal some more in Zelda games, but it’ll be a good long while before I get a Wii, if I ever do. I’ve come a long way from “F***-A-Wii,” but I have to get my sleek, ebony, pricey baby first.

How’s everyone else doing in XII, if it’s okay to ask. I finally started to play it in earnest and I ADORE it. I loved XI first, so I already had a leg up as far as the gameplay. And, I know it’s not her (I checked) but I’m convinced that Natalie Portman did Penelo’s voice.

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 11/26/2006 2:52 AM

Well.. I want a wii for Trauma Center.. woo scalpel! :3 but ive just been having a rough day, and it ended at least with me hugging my girlfriend as tight as I could.. Which means I cant wait till christmas.. I have the cutest gift idea ever.. ^w^ I just need another hug, im doubting on my parents store selling enough to stay open and school things,

Chestnuts roasted by DashiKun @ 11/26/2006 3:24 AM

I had work at KB tonight from 4:30-10 and then went to a frat bro’s house til 1, then got back at 1:40.

Anyways, Mystie, you do know that the Muppet Family Christmas dvd is horribly edited so that some really good parts aren’t in it anymore, right? (like Miss Piggy’s entrance, Fozzy’s song with the snowman, and the live-action Muppet Babies segment!)

I’ve been watching the CN dub of Shin Chan on the ‘tube.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 11/26/2006 3:40 AM

I have been fighting the urge to go look for Christmas lights for a week. There is this one street in my town where EVERYONE decorates and I keep driving by hoping to see another house finished. So far there’s just a few. As soon as that street is done, I’ll probably just drive by there every day until Christmas Eve. I always spend Christmas Eve driving around looking for Christmas lights with my parents. I’m 23, but I still love sipping hot chocolate with my mom and dad in his truck while we drive around half the state looking for sparklies.

My house is sorely in need of some Christmasification. But it needs a thorough cleaning first. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll find the motivation.

Chestnuts roasted by broomstickjockey @ 11/26/2006 4:15 AM

Did I mention to anyone here I got my Wii on launch day from the EB I work at? ‘Cause I did. And it’s wonderful. I haven’t been this happy about a new system since the Dreamcast.

Chestnuts roasted by Timmy @ 11/26/2006 4:17 AM

Recent posts have finally piqued my curiosity and I’ve gone back to read Photog for the first time. I’m not even a quarter of the way through, but holy crap. It really is like reading a novel or something. This is fun.

And I have a question for all of you. Anyone have any advice on how to train pets not to mess with Christmas trees? I have a cat, a kitten and a puppy who can’t seem to leave the thing alone.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 11/26/2006 4:22 AM

Hey, first time poster, long time reader (Love the Kool-Aid Reviews BTW). I waited in 4 degree Farenheit weather for my Wii, and despite wondering if my feet still exsisted or not by the end I regret nothing. The system is totally sweet and Wii Sports is an excellent party game (especially bowling, playing some with my friends right now in fact.) Anywho that’s all I’ve got to say right now, love the holiday season!

Chestnuts roasted by Cap'n Ducky @ 11/26/2006 4:40 AM

Welcome to the blog, Cap’n!
To be honest, the Photog blog isn’t even one of my favorite threads (I know, blasphemy). Obviously it’s worth the read though.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 11/26/2006 5:08 AM

Hi, jazzy ~ I asked the same question myself awhile back, since last year my two young brother cats had taken to sleeping in the top branches of the tree. I tried some of that spray you can use to keep cats off furniture, but it didn’t work. And I have three more cats to deal with this year.

Moony posted the following, which is probably what I’m going to try:

“Decorating with cats in mind…Here’s something that’s worked for me for years, with the exception of one hardheaded cat who liked to bodyslam the tree:

1)Go to the pet store and buy a bottle of Bitter Apple Spray. Preferably the gentler ‘plant safe’ one.

2)Setup and decorate tree. Include the lights, but leave them unplugged for now.

3) Spray the ENTIRE bottom three feet of the tree, including the decorations (if they can take it). Make sure to get a good coating on tinsel and light cords. Spray the entire length of the light cord, but don’t include the plug itself.

4) Take every cat and stick a piece of the treated tinsel or the *unplugged* light cord in their mouth. It will only be a second before they’re objecting to the nasty, burning taste. Some particularly stubborn cats might need a repeat of this step later on.

The Bitter Apple spray doesn’t smell to you, but it does to them, and they’ll associate it with that nasty taste, and most cats will want to avoid it after that.

Of course, you may have an Einstein or two amongst your feline numbers, but they’re usually the exception!”

I wish us both luck.

Chestnuts roasted by Trish @ 11/26/2006 5:59 AM

Hey Matt, great to see ya getting ready for the season.

I work at the Times Square Toys ‘R’ Us and you’re right about the Wii, we have a lot of them in stock. Heck on launch day alone we had 4000. And I finished unpacking about 200 of them last night, so if you’re looking for a Wii come down and get one.

And if you’re looking for anything specific to get from there Matt just contact me and I’ll pull it aside the moment it arrives from the warehouse. Not to mention get a discount on it as well.

Chestnuts roasted by Luis @ 11/26/2006 10:14 AM

Another thing that works to keep the cats out of the tree is to stick a couple of inflated balloons in it, right next to the trunk. The little ones, the size used for that carnival dart throw game, work best. They will either stop the cat from being able to climb past them, or explode when the cat claws at them. Either way, they make the tree cat-unfriendly.

Chestnuts roasted by deus-ex-maria @ 11/26/2006 10:15 AM

I don’t trust that Charmin bear. How would a bear be able to purchase toilet paper in the middle of the woods?

I think the Wii is great and I’ll most likely get one, but I do not look forward to the puns I will get to hear once I have it (Whenever someone defeats another in a game, he’ll/she’ll say “VictorWii!”… and my eyes will roll so much, they’ll fall from my face).

Chestnuts roasted by Dr. Acula @ 11/26/2006 10:25 AM

Cameron T- Nice tree! Wow- makes me feel all Xmas-y inside. I can’t put my tree up yet since my box of tree ornaments is MIA! I can’t find them anywhere, and I do NOT want to buy new ones- those old ones are special to me.

Rhino- Freaking great idea.

“Muppet Family Christmas” is my favorite Xmas special- I like it even more than the Grinch or Charlie Brown, so I was super excited when it finally came out on DVD…what they did to the special on DVD is sacriligious- it is criminal! They RUINED it. They cut out soooo many great parts. It makes me angry just thinking about it. So, despite owning the DVD, every year I hunt around and dig out my old ‘taped-off-the-tv’ copy on VHS to watch.

Why DID they name it Wii? What’s the meaning there?

Loving all the new Starbucks flavors myself. Do they always have holiday flavors? This is the 1st year I noticed.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 11/26/2006 12:28 PM

Manimal = By the way, your Victoria Day poem/song was magnificent. :) Although Victoria Day is NOT cool enough to warrant such efforts- a lot of people don’t even get the day off work, and it doesn’t really deserve a poem.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 11/26/2006 12:31 PM

I will no longer “First Post.” Forgive me.

Chestnuts roasted by Der Super @ 11/26/2006 1:35 PM

I just got back from Denver for Thanksgiving. I live in Idaho, and my parents live in Kansas, so we met halfway. I wish they’d just flown me home- it would have cost us a total of the same amount we spent on gas and hotel, and I would have got to see my friends. On the plus side, we took the Coors brewery tour, drove over Loveland pass, saw a couple movies, and went to the natural history museum (which was unfortunately not as interesting as I’d remembered, but still a neat nostalgia trip).

The only real downer was Thanksgiving dinner. The only place we could find that was open was a sports bar. $65 for the three of us, and we basically each got 2 pieces of lunch meat spread with terrible tasting gravy. The vegetables were so heavily crusted with garlic salt that I couldn’t eat them. We all sent our food back because it was room temperature, and they left the cranberry sauce on the plates in the microwave, so the cranberry sauce was hot too. About the only good part was the instant potatoes, but it’s pretty hard to mess them up. I’ve never before been hungry after Thanksgiving dinner. I told my parents we should walk out and refuse to pay, but they pointed out our only other alternative was the vending machines at the hotel.

On a happier note, I plan to spend today decorating for Christmas and catching up on the stuff on my DVR. I had fully expected to be called into work, as my work cell phone was ringing all the fucking time while I was on vacation. I would have just left it at the hotel room, but the engineers on shift are inexperienced, so I couldn’t leave them stranded. However, I called one to see if he wanted me to cover today, since he didn’t get a holiday, and he never called back. That means I can stay home guilt free! Hooray! Star Wars and Simpsons Christmas ornaments here I come! Sundays can be for more than dreading Monday- you just have to have something fun to take your mind off the impending doom of Monday.

Chestnuts roasted by spaz307 @ 11/26/2006 1:38 PM

Muppet Baby, the ‘buck’s had the same three flavors last year as well. They also do a heck of a pumpkin muffin during October. They usually have some limited-time stuff all year, but it’s not always good. Avoid anything banana-flavored, even if you ARE on a total Kong kick. Voice of experience.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 11/26/2006 2:08 PM

I’ve had the Muppet Family Christmas DVD on my Christmas list for like 3 years now. Don’t think I’ll be getting it as they’re going for $50-$100 on eBay. I didn’t feel like digging out my old taped off TV VHS copy, especially since it might just crumble in my hands, so I downloaded it online. Horray for piracy.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 11/26/2006 2:43 PM

Muppet Baby

I think they named it Wii because it sounds like “we,” which emphasizes the community aspect of the console, and also refers to Nintendo’s desire for EVERYONE, not just gamers, to enjoy it.

Since the Japanese named the thing, they probably weren’t thinking about the ehem….”immature” connotations of the word.

Relevent Penny Arcade comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/28

And thanks for the nice comment on the tree–I’m really happy to finally have a full-size tree in my apartment. In previous years (in another, smaller aparment), I only had a small 2ft tree. More like a bush, really.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 11/26/2006 3:54 PM

Since the Japanese named the thing, they probably weren’t thinking about the ehem….”immature” connotations of the word.

I’m probably sure that was intentional. They DID announce it 3 weeks before E3 so everyone would get it out of their system first so they could concentrate on the awesomeness.

Personally, I’m waiting for Smash Bros Brawl to come out before I get one, which was originally a lunch title! SSB Melee was the reason I bought a GC in the first place!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 11/26/2006 4:26 PM

Squee4242- Thanks for the words of wisdom. Last year I didn’t live near a Starbucks and the year before that I was in Korea, so this is the forst year I have been able to enjoy their holiday goodness. :) Tim Hortons is still better though (*Canadian coffee chain) Wendy’s recently bought Tim Hortons, so all you Americans can prepare for a new, super awesome coffee chain to start popping up all over the USA.

I like the name ‘Wii’ actually. It’s short and sassy.

I have SO much work to do, and I keep putting it off…and off. Damn youtube- it’s the devil.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 11/26/2006 4:39 PM

Speaking of youtube, here’s a good link for X-E readers who haven’t seen it before. It’s the 1990 Child World (or, as those of us from the Midwest knew it, Children’s Palace) Video Catalog. Pretty good quality too.

You know, Matt, it’s kind of hard being a girl and into this stuff sometimes, because I watch stuff like that video catalog and I’m like, “OOH!!! The quints!! I had those and their playsets and little outfits!” And then it’s really embarassing wanting to literally unearth baby dolls at age 25.

Anyway, here’s the link:

Chestnuts roasted by Kate @ 11/26/2006 5:07 PM

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