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My wife recently bought a jar of OxiClean and thinks it is the greatest thing in the world, but I can't even look at the container without imagining that bearded moron on TV who is constantly shouting in those lame infomercials.

Oh yeah, well take this!

For some reason, this guy really irks me:


http://www.mrhelpful.com/archives/000249.html

But then, I never cared much for this guy, either:

Lost another loan to Ditech!

You'd think that Genreal Motors would be in better financial shape just from all those loans Ditech is writing.

harold wrote:But Ron Popiel invented a few cool things!

1. The Ronco in the shell egg scrambler.

2. That spray fake hair stuff that people use to cover their bald spots.

3. The best infomercial product of all time: the Ronco Pocket Fisherman.

You forgot Mr. Microphone:



and of course:

Oh Oxyclean Guy isn't all that bad. If you ever stay up late there's this guy in these STUPID outfits telling you to buy his video on how to get free money from the government. He's jumping up and down, yelling, making these ridiculous faces. If you don't like Oxyclean you'll HATE this guy. I wish I could find his pic to show yall...






Ralph

Billy is very mild as far as infomercials go.

I'll take him over the women with the pasta-pot or the whisk any day.

TexTuba wrote:Oh Oxyclean Guy isn't all that bad. If you ever stay up late there's this guy in these STUPID outfits telling you to buy his video on how to get free money from the government. He's jumping up and down, yelling, making these ridiculous faces. If you don't like Oxyclean you'll HATE this guy. I wish I could find his pic to show yall...

You would be referring, of course, to Matthew Lesko:



And I agree with you, FWIW.

I've also got a bellyfull of the ditech guy, the "can you hear me now" guy, the nauseating "Room Store" couple (may be regional) , the entire "I'm lovin' it" McDonalds campaign -- this is why DVR/PVR/TiVo is, perhaps, the best invention in the last 20 years.

At least the OxyClean guy once accomplished something. He was an olympic track medalist (I don't recall the event; I'm thinking middle-distance running).
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Joe Baker, who is able to miss commercials 90% of the time thanks to his DVR, and STILL has managed to get sick of these clowns.

ok, dumb non-tv-watching chick here. What is a DVR?

And I have heard of Oxyclean but not the rest of the stuff you are talking about.

Maybe you guys are watching WAY too much TV? Go practice your tuba!

MA, who does not have cable or satellite, just rabbit ears

I agree with all of those, but David Spade is the one that's really beginning to bug me in the NO commercials for my current employer.

http://www.advertisementave.com/tv/ad.asp?adid=574

MaryAnn wrote:ok, dumb non-tv-watching chick here. What is a DVR?

And I have heard of Oxyclean but not the rest of the stuff you are talking about.

Maybe you guys are watching WAY too much TV? Go practice your tuba!

MA, who does not have cable or satellite, just rabbit ears

Rabbit ears, eh... hmmm...


A DVR is a Digital Video Recorder (aka Personal Video Recorder; TiVo is the most well-known name brand). The concept is this: my show starts at 5:00, but I don't get home 'til 6:00? Set the machine up to automatically record it, like a VCR. Nice, but not revolutionary. BUT WAIT -- suppose my show starts at 6:00, and I don't get home 'til 6:15? No problem, I can start watching it while it's still recording. Another show starts before I'm done watching that one? No problem, it'll record while I watch. Or how about this one: ten minutes from the end of a show I'm watching in real-time, the phone rings/someone's at the door/nature calls/the dog knocks over a lamp -- whatever. I hit pause, handle the emergency, then come back and continue. Watching a show and missed a line of dialogue? Rewind.

I don't watch a lot of TV by most people's standards -- I probably actually watch about an hour to an hour and a half per day, usually the Simpsons and perhaps Family Guy, or Jeopardy, or maybe an old movie. I watch while I'm fixing dinner, folding clothes, opening mail, doing personal email and tubenet, etc. But by time-shifting with the DVR, I can watch a 30-minute show in 20 minutes, and an hour-long show in 40 minutes. So I can watch an hour and a half of TV in an hour. That's the significance of a DVR: if you DO watch TV, it literally buys back some of your time for you, and lets you skip a LOT of commercials.
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Joe Baker, who would give up his digital camera and his cell phone before he'd give up his DVR.

Joe, have you ever considered a job as a pitchman? You could sell DVR's, the way this guy in NY used to sell stereos in the 70's and 80's:


For a walk down memory lane, click the link below to watch a clip.
http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/cra ... e2-1982.rm
*sigh* they just don't make pitchmen like they used to.

MaryAnn wrote:ok, dumb non-tv-watching chick here. What is a DVR?

Digital Video Recorder.
TiVo being a particular brand of DVR.

PVR=Personal Video Recorder

Think VCR using a computer disk instead of a tape. So faster FF/RW, and simple deletes, with out ghosting, and no tape wear.

Maybe you guys are watching WAY too much TV? Go practice your tuba!

Probably right there. But PVR at least allow one to time shift easily. I seldom watch live broadcast now. Just record it and watch it later on my schedule. If I decide 10 minutes in I'm not interested, delete, and do/watch something else. Plus I can always stop/pause if desired. No more waiting on a commercial (mostly no more commercial, skip past them) to get a drink , or snack or a toilet trip. No more missing the climax because the phone rings, thers a know at the door, or the baby's crying.

Can you hear me annoying you now? GOOD!

I am personally tired of ALL infomercials.

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Ho,ho...dare I say that was a GAS