Rejected Names for Beanie Babies

  • Shapiro the Snake
  • Wheezy the Emphysemic Rat
  • Tapey the Worm
  • Limpy the Octopalegic Centipede
  • Roadkill the Dog
  • Zsa Zsa the Boar
  • Retchy the Wino
  • Newtie the Embattled House Speaker
  • The Antelope Formerly Known as Prince
  • Truman Coyote
  • Hooters the Exotic Dancer
  • Spanky the Monkey
  • Dolly the Sheep and Dolly the Sheep
  • Sucker the Beanie Baby Collector
  • L’Orange the Duck

Absolutely Vital Things to Know About Taking a Bath

  • When you leave a bath to run by itself, the plug jumps just as you leave the bathroom and you return to an empty bath just as the hot water runs out.
  • Spiders can run round the bath faster than you can.
  • If you run a bath too hot, you don’t realize this until you sit in the other end and burn your rear end.
  • It is physically impossible to turn a tap on or off with your foot.
  • When you lie back in the bath, your right foot slips forward until it is positioned exactly beneath the dripping tap.
  • The odd flannel you are using to wash yourself is not a flannel at all; it is a sock which has fallen from above.
  • The dirt you wash off yourself gathers on the surface of the water and then re-attaches itself to you as you rise to leave.
  • Lost soap is ALWAYS behind you.
  • When you get out of the bath, the first bit you dry is the one bit you just realized you forgot to wash.
  • However hard you dry yourself, you are still wet when you put your clothes on.

Bargain Children’s Books

  • You Are Different, and That’s Bad
  • The Boy Who Died From Eating All His Vegetables
  • Dad’s New Wife, Robert
  • Fun Four-letter Words to Know and Share
  • Hammers, Screwdrivers, and Scissors: An I-Can-Do Book
  • The Kid’s Guide to Hitchhiking
  • Bobby Was So Bad His Mom Stopped Loving Him
  • Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence
  • All Cats go to Hell
  • The Little Sissy Who Snitched
  • Some Kittens Can Fly
  • That’s it, I’m Putting You up for Adoption
  • Grandpa Gets a Casket
  • The Magic World Inside the Abandoned Refrigerator
  • Garfield Gets Feline Leukemia
  • The Pop-up Book of Human Anatomy
  • Strangers Have the Best Candy
  • Whining, Kicking and Crying to Get Your Way
  • You Were an Accident
  • Things Rich Kids Have, But You Never Will
  • Pop! Goes the Hamster…And Other Great Microwave Games
  • The Man in the Moon is Actually Satan
  • Your Nightmares Are Real
  • Where Would You Like to be Buried?
  • Eggs, Toilet Paper and Your School
  • Why Can’t Mr. Fork and Mrs. Electrical Outlet be Friends? A See-for-Yourself Book
  • Places Where Mommy and Daddy Hide Neat Things
  • Daddy Drinks Because You Cry

Reasons Why the Titanic Was a Poor Choice For a Honeymoon

  • Too much noise in the hallways to whisper sweet nothings to your TurtleDove.
  • Just as you reach the peak of sexual passion, your Snookums rolls out of bed.
  • Cold water on the stateroom floor takes the fun out of anything kinky.
  • The sirens and whistles make it hard to concentrate onlove-making.
  • Moaning and screaming all around you makes you feel sexually inadequate.
  • You paid for a stateroom on a lower deck, but the lifeboats are hanging just outside your cabin window.
  • No one will lend you a life preserver – the one thing you need to win the scavenger hunt!
  • You dressed for dinner, but your shipmates come to the dining room wearing pajamas and nighties.
  • It’s time for your mambo lesson, but the band won’t stop playing “Rock of Ages”.
  • You need ice for drinks – your steward sends you up to the top deck with an ice pick.

Slogans that Never Quite Caught On

  • Charmin: “Butt… Wipe… Err.”
  • Microsoft: “How much are you going to pay today?”
  • Eggs: “The Incredible Edible Ovum.”
  • MTV: “Loud and easy to spell.”
  • Saks 5th Avenue: “You Could Shop Here if You’re Poor, But That Would be Stupid!”
  • Iguana: “The other green meat.”
  • Penis Enlargement Specialists: “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing!”
  • Nike: “Just buy the damn shoes, you flabby spineless lump!”
  • Daisy Air Rifles: “Keeping kids off your lawn for over forty years.”
  • Canon Photocopiers: “Quit calling them Xeroxes, dammit!”
  • Pepto Bismol: “Squash the Squirts!”
  • Trojans: “Just add meat.”
  • Apple MacIntosh: “Hey, we thought of it first!”
  • Radio Shack: “You’ve got questions, we’ve got geek losers!”
  • Professional Bowling on NBC: “Oh, why don’t you just go ahead and kill yourself instead?”

Bad Romance Novel Metaphors or Similes

  • His body was hard — not hard like Milosevic, the Serbian strongman, but hard like the marble on your shower floor, when you fall and bang your knee.
  • Her shoulders heaved like the tiny sobs of Snuggles the cat being run through with a roasting spit.
  • Her embrace made his manhood swell like week-old roadkill on hot asphalt in the Georgia sun.
  • Her petticoats dropped to the ground, rustling like a cockroach in a sugar bowl.
  • As she kissed her way down his manly chest, he felt his Amalgamated Crane Company stock increasing in value.
  • Beatrice was on him like a piranha on a corn dog.
  • …then he kissed her, like a butterfly kisses the windshield of a Porsche on the Autobahn.
  • Her breasts heaved like a stormy ocean, and her pointed nipples were like hypodermics washed up on the shore.
  • With his broad shoulders and slim waist, he was a yield sign — yet she could NOT!
  • He tore open her blouse like a Publisher’s Clearing House letter in which he, and some guy named Steven Bouber from Stockton, California, were potential finalists for the ten million dollar prize.
  • His manhood stood at full attention, stiff and stony like the vice president.
  • Sleekly malevolent, driven by a violent hunger, Donovan glided through the chum-filled waters of the singles bar, oblivious to the remora of Annabelle’s adoring gaze.
  • Like the wind, she ran, her breasts lurching like a motor boat over a wake, and then, as fluid as a fine imported transmission, she whipped out her man-organ and pissed away his dreams.
  • Her sun-glazed back formed a golden arch as he moved his face toward her happy meal.
  • With each breath, her chest heaved like a bulimic after Thanksgiving dinner.
  • He Beatty-ed her shamelessly, making her squeal like Ned and hallucinate like Warren.
  • He awoke my slumbering womanhood with his double tall loin latte. “Starbuck!” I cried.
  • His chest was her pillow, and oh, did she drool.
  • Claire felt swept away by this dark stranger, a helpless dust bunny in the roaring cacophony of his gas-powered leaf blower.
  • His finger, weathered and rough from years on the ranch, danced in and out of his nose like a slimy ballerina.

Bad Merger Ideas

  • Mennen Black & Decker
  • Brother Cannon Sperry Daimler
  • Rubbermaid Snap-On Genuine Parts
  • Olde McDonald’s Hickory Farms
  • Eaton Apple Caterpillar
  • Good ‘n’ Plenty Johnson Wax
  • Motel 6 Hostess
  • Camel Apple
  • Hershey Gateway
  • Microsoft Weinerschnitzel
  • Star-Kist Tuna Aqua Net
  • Blue Cross Dresser Industries
  • Pfizer Wang Boeing
  • Yahoo! Wendy’s Intuit
  • Playboy Staples Busch
  • Zippo Johnson & Johnson Hertz

Signs You’ve Invested in a Bad Internet Company

  • CEO stops by to use your computer because his electricity’s been turned off again.
  • Company made solely up of former AARP executives.
  • Merrill Lynch just downgraded the stock from “Sell” to “Tax Write-Off.”
  • Your profits? 404 — Not Found
  • Prospectus states: “YOU MIGHT ALREADY BE A STOCKHOLDER!”
  • Their big idea: eHaircuts
  • Their Lead Programmer is reasonably attractive & has 20/20 vision.
  • IPO consists of 12 shares and a free CD and is underwritten by MC Hammer.
  • At shareholder meeting you’re asked to wear a mouse pad as a name tag.
  • In “Pirates of Silicon Valley”, company CEO was played by that “Ernest” guy.
  • Their price-to-earnings ratio is higher than Marion Barry in a DEA evidence room.
  • Good: Team of young, enthusiastic go-getters;
    Bad: IPO’s financial goal was $57.45 to “repay Tommy’s mom.”

Signs You’re at a Bad Figure Skating Competition

  • Sponsored by Acme Ass Pads.
  • “Would the holder of lucky ticket #2220 please report to the box office to receive a whack on the knee with a crowbar!”
  • The Chili-Powered Competition is a real turnoff.
  • The highest marks for technical merit are given to Boom Boom Magorsky, Zamboni driver.
  • Starbucks logo tattooed on the ass of every skater.
  • Judges not impressed by your “Oh, Calcutta” routine, despite the rather obvious effects of the cold air.
  • “And now, singing our national anthem, please welcome Fran Drescher!”
  • First time you’ve seen points awarded for a “Triple Klutz” and a “Triple Putz.”
  • The biggest cheer of the night occurs when the Zamboni runs down Elvis Stojko.
  • The mixed pairs competition breaks down into an all-out grope-fest.
  • During the pairs ice dancing, some crazed toothless Canadian cross-checks the couples into the boards.
  • Thin ice on the lake results in three drownings before the prelims come up.
  • Tara Lipinski cancels at last minute, is replaced by Monica Lewinsky.
  • More butts hitting the ice than at the annual R.J. Reynolds Ice Fishing Tournament.
  • Brian Boitano’s new program interprets history of male pattern baldness.
  • Oksana Baiul is chipping ice out of the rink for margaritas.

Signs You’re On A Bad Cruise Ship

  • The shuffleboard puck looks suspiciously like a urinal cake.
  • Scheduled entertainment: The comedy stylings of Kato Kaelin.
  • All activities are scheduled for after sundown, and the chefs refuse to cook with garlic.
  • First port of call on your “Surprise Adventures Tour” is East Timor.
  • Six-foot-tall obnoxious mice greet you everywhere you go — and it’s *not* a Disney cruise.
  • The “TrekCruise” brochure said nothing about William Shatner eating all the shrimp before you get to the buffet.
  • “LIFEBOATS?!? We don’t NEED no stinkin’ lifeboats!!”
  • The scenery is nice, but monotonous: two seagulls, a puffy cloud, a sun, then wait ten seconds and it starts over again.
  • Complimentary Polo shirt is yours to keep — after you make a dozen more just like ’em for Kathie Lee at the Guatemala port of call.
  • The Good News: You’ve been invited to dine at the captain’s table.
    The Bad News: Tonight’s entertainment is a live sex show at the captain’s table.
  • Welcome aboard “wine and cheese” buffet consists of Ripple and Velveeta slices.
  • Their ship: Leonardo DiCaprio sketches a tasteful nude of you in your cabin. Your ship: Bobby-Ray spray paints your name on one of the Smokestacks.
  • “And here’s your dance director: The man who invented dancing, Al Gore!”
  • Cruise line name: ValuBoat Destination: Florida Everglades
  • That strong smell of fish is not coming from the sea, but from your cruise director, Julie McCrusty.
  • Attention passengers: Now starting on the Lido Deck is the ship’s Tequila Shots Championship. Come watch undefeated Captain Hazelwood defend his title!”