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Monday, January 5, 2004

Just in Time for Christmas (2004): Mr. T Soap on a Rope
I thought I bought my friend a cool birthday present when I got him a DVD commemorating our Syracuse Orangemen's men's basketball national championship. Till I was one-upped by someone who bought him a Mr. T Soap on a Rope.

The best part of the product is that Mr. T had to have approved of it. I'm imagining the conversation between Mr. T and his agent went something like this:

Agent: Mr. T, we have this great licensing opportunity, and I want you to hear about it.

Mr. T: Great. Is it as classy as those 1-800-COLLECT commercials?

Agent: Better! People are going to wash their armpits with your face.

Mr. T: Balls, too?

Agent: Yes. Well, just the guys. But think what women could do with your mohawk.

Mr. T: Sounds awesome. Where do I sign?

Other Web Finds:

101 Ways to Save the Internet — Among other topics, Wired touches on the still-too-expensive price to download music ($0.99 a song). Author Paul Boutin says $0.29 is more reasonable and I agree. At least for released singles. Remember what the point is of released singles, for Christ's sake. Promotion!

The 50 Best Guy Movies of All TimeMen's Journal gives the top spot to Dirty Harry over The Godfather, one of four movies on the list that I have seen in its entirety. The others being Caddyshack, Rocky and Animal House. Sorry, I don't watch movies.

T.G.I. Friday's New Low-Carb Menu — Finally, a place to get a couple of burgers, sans bun, without having to pay for fries. (Thanks, Art)

Yahoo!'s Top Searches of 2003 — A survey of what people searched the Net for last year. Also see Google's year-end Zeitgesit. Take any search data without sex terms with a grain of salt, however. There are a lot of sites that survey search trends, but their results differ so greatly that it's hard to put trust in any.

A Timeline of We Didn't Start the Fire — Someone sorted by year all the words mentioned in the Billy Joel hit. Plus, some quick information on each, like 1954's Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Tosconini, Dacron.

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Comments: Just in Time for Christmas (2004): Mr. T Soap on a Rope

That is a pretty comprehensive list of guy's movies, but my all time favourite is not there. How they can leave the Blues Brothers, with one the the best chase scenes of all time off that list, I'm not sure.

And on another note, go Chiefs!

Posted by Mike at January 5, 2004 12:31 PM

I'll give you a few guys movies: Hard Ticket to Hawaii, Malibu Express and Picasso Trigger. You can look them up.

Posted by Paul Katcher at January 5, 2004 1:39 PM

Yawn.

Now Gone With The Wind- THAT'S a great movie!

Posted by lucy at January 5, 2004 6:46 PM

I think the DVD is the far more superior present.

You know, when I was a little kid there were this things called 45's, which were singles on LP. Hands up if you remember LP's. You couldn't get near a 45 for 99c. I think we've become a wee bit spoiled by the free downloading of music.

Posted by amy at January 5, 2004 9:22 PM

me puts his hand up for 45's ^
jeez, i wonder what happened to all those and my *gasp*albums?

Posted by Grant at January 5, 2004 11:43 PM

Great point about the cost of singles then, but technological advancements sometimes lower prices, especially so with consumer products like computers and DVD players.

Posted by Paul Katcher at January 5, 2004 11:54 PM
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