Hot and Not 20 Years Ago According To My Yearbook.

This is from my 1991 yearbook (I scanned in the entire yearbook, but assume you do not want to see that I was in both the Safety Patrol and Drama club!).   

It amuses me that Edward Scissorhands made it to the Not Hot list, he certainly stood the test of time better than Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer.

And buying lemonade is hot! Who doesn't remember the great Lemonade Fad of the early 1990s. But it wasn't drinking Lemonade that was so cool, just the act of buying it.

The cheap sneakers being not hot explains why I wasn't more popular, if only I paid more attention to my own yearbook. 

What's HOT:

Rap, Pop, Heavy Metal, MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Madona, Janet Jackson, Home Alone, Simpsons, Nintendo, Game Boy, Neon Colors, Money, Books, Buying Lemonade, Dancing, Girl & Boy Friends, Pumps, Cute Guys, Summer Reading, Baggy Pants, Earings

What's NOT:

Edward Scissorhands, New Kids on the Block, Debbie Gibson, Smoking, Milli Vanilli, Alcohol, Cheap Sneakers, Drugs, Sadam Heussein

If you thought Fourloco was bad...

UPS making a delivery to the set of Two and a Half Men.

We've all heard about how Coca-Cola once contained cocaine. But did you know that before John Pemberton invented the famous soda, he sold a drink that contained alcohol, caffeine and cocaine?

The drink was popular, for obvious reasons, but was done away with early in the 20th century when some states began outlawing  one of the main ingredients. But not the one you're probably thinking.

The dangers of alcohol was becoming a hot topic and the early stages of prohibition was beging to come together.  While alcohol was being as seen as dangerous cocaine apparently wasn't such a big deal. Pemberton stopped making his cocaine/alcohol/caffeine potion and decided to focus his attention solely on Coca-Cola.

Of course eventually cocaine was removed from Coca-Cola to give us the drink we have today... well almost. In the late 70s sugar was replaced with high fructose corn syrup and it remains that way today. You can still find the real sugar formular if you buy Coke from Mexico.

By the way, all that sugar was originally added to offset the horrible medicinal flavor of the cocaine.

Tokyo Tuesday: Naked Dance?

The video that makes the important statement: Don't look at my junk while I dance naked.

Gilbert Gottfried

Gilbert kind of looks like Pee-Wee Herman in this picture.

Last week Gilbert Gottfried was fired from Aflac for his jokes about the disaster in Japan. You already know this, if you don't go do a quick search on Google News. I'll wait... on second thought, I don't feel like waiting, you'll just have to catch up later

I have always believed you should be able to joke about anything. Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying. If you look at the vast reactions from people about recent occurrences in Japan, you'll see most people are choosing crying. Crying is fine if that's your thing, but if you look over at the archives at cheesegod.com you'll find that I try to have fun with the current situations in the world (you'll also find a bunch of gramatical errors).

Not that I really blame Aflac for dismissing Gottfried. It is in their best interest to portray their company as caring for those being hurt. I'm not sure why they thought a duck voiced by the guy from Problem Child 2 was the best person to convey that in the first place, I suppose they thought it was working though since they continued to use that duck for 10+ years. During that time Geico has had the lizard, the boss, cavemen and that guy that sounds like Robert Stack. Aflac is clearly losing the number of insurance mascots game.

This isn't the first time Gilbert Gottfried has caused controversy with his jokes. He was hassled after making a joke about 9/11 just weeks after the attacks of the World Trade Center. Of course Aflac didn't fire him for that, I guess they were okay with that.

What I don't really understand is what kind of job is voicing the Aflac duck is. Once you've shouted Aflac a couple of times into a microphone, isn't that really enough? Couldn't they just reuse that loop?

Tokyo Tuesdays- SpongBob Happy Meal Toys!

Hmm.. I haven't seen a kid this excited over crap since Nintendo 64.

Just How Secure is That Fence at the Border

Perhaps the people who are for this fence are going by stereotypes and assuming Mexicans are too lazy to do this:

Tokyo Tuesday - High Blood Pressure

Believe me, you have no idea where this is going until it gets there: