Ayds makes you slimer

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Two (in)famous ads for one unfortunately named bit of weight loss stuff; “Ayds” was a real hunger suppression pill which premiered just about the same time the disease became known.

1982 - the first Ayds Commercial”

And of course, a few months later, Ayds in peanut butter flavor. We assume that’d be chunky peanut butter.
Three ATM porn freaks just chuckled knowingly at that, to the rest of you we apologize.

Thanks to Recon

Bush State of the Union Address

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Remember that Roddy Piper movie They Live? When they’d put on the sunglasses and see the alien government’s agenda revealed? Here’s the State of the Union address edited into a little frank honesty. You know, if El Presidente actually hit the stage like this it wouldn’t bother us so much— we’d at least feel included.

Bush State of the Union Address
Via Disloyal.org

The above link works fine for us, but we had an email from someone with problems. If that’s you too, watch it here .

Brokeback to the Future

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Brokeback Mountain meets Back to the Future.
We thought the title might be confusing.

Thanks to Well Laced Shoes and Timo, both of whom suggested this at the same time.

Afrika Bambaataa - Renegades Of Funk

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Pretty great video for the mighty affectionate Zulu leader from the South Bronx and his Soulsonic Force, Afrika Bambaataa.
Dance, suka!

Laughing Levi’s Commercial

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This 70s stop-motion ad for Levis jeans twings some odd twange of our memeory, but we don’t recall ever seeing it. Yes, we are just making up shit words as we go.

http://www.youtube.com/w/Laughing-Levis-Commercial?v=4QmrjlG-s6Q&search=Levis

Thank You Mask Man / Thank You Masked Man

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By then dead for five years Lenny Bruce gets (re)-animated thanks to the efforts of San Francisco filmmaker John Magnuson in this 1971 goof on The Lone Ranger. All of the vocal characterizations in this are from a live performance in which Lenny wonders about the realities of being a do-godder in ye olde west.

http://www.youtube.com/w/Thank-You-Mask-Man?v=NE6JWEogq_k&search=Lenny%20Bruce

Headroom

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Here’s the first ad in the 1986 ad campaign for the “New Coke”, which if you’re too young to remember was a lot like the old Coke, but with a Pepsi in it. This post-cool ad with the mighty Max Headroom ad lasted much longer.

While we’re on Mr. Headroom’s block, here he is on the Art of Noise track Paranoimia, which we got in brainworm form from Harry Shearer’s Le Show last week.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 : Truck Farmer

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“Some carrots are harvested.”
“Some carrots are humiliated publicly.”

Joel and the bots endure a pre-feature educational short about… truck farming. From the I Accuse My Parents episode, which is one of the few Joel Hodgeson ones on DVD, and one of the better episodes of the whole series.

Voodoo Wedding. With chocolate jimmies. To go.

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CulturePulp vs. the Voodoo Doughnut wedding— Oregonian Mike Russell observes some wedded bliss from the edge of the abyss: “This week, I attend a legal wedding at [Voodoo Doughnut] an all-night doughnut shop in Portland, Oregon. Discussed: Rings in coffins. Pepto-Bismol and Nyquil-flavored doughnuts, customers named Elvis…”

Voodoo and Doughnuts. We love this. Someone marry us.

CulturePulp 045: Voodoo Wedding

Perhaps freshly dead Fred the Baker can be resurrected through Voodoo for the honeymoon.

Ministry - Flashback

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Fantastic little seen 1988 video for the penultimate track on the mighty Ministry’s The Land Of Rape And Honey, a cornerstone of “industrial” music which still sounds fresh to us. This is a suitably dense clip for the track, we advise you press your nose to the screen for best effect.

Southern Fried Rabbit (Uncensored)

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The 1953 short in which Bugs discovers Yosemite Sam blown to smithereens by his own ill-tended to meth lab. Well, you explain Yosemite Sam without bathtub crank. Actually Friz Freleng’s Southern Fried Rabbit is now aired only edited for fear that it might warp the tender children of today because Bugs disguises himself as both Jim Crow and Uncle Tom to mess with Yosemite Sam’s head. That the Loony Toons gang were goofing on shitty racial stereotypes instead of perpetuating them is evidently something Warner Brothers is afraid the kids of today are too dim to catch.

Read about Southern Fried Rabbit at Wikipedia