I’ve watched this video maybe a thousand times so far and it never gets old. One thing’s for sure, old Bushy must be caught up on his “Jerry Springer” viewing ‘cause bitch knows how to duck a shoe. (QuizLaw)
You know what else I could almost never get tired of? Madonna eating it onstage during one of her concerts. (DListed)
Sharon Osbourne, host of VH1’s “Rock of Love: Charm School” became involved in a physical altercation with contestant Megan. Today is the best day ever. (WIMB)
Tara Reid has checked into — wait for it — rehab! Now if only she could check herself into a time machine… (Celebslam)
Here are six films about Richard Nixon. I think Dick has Pajiba Underappreciated Gem written all over it. (PW)
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! “Curb Your Enthusiasm” spoiler! Sort of! Anyway, definite proof it’s coming back soon! (Jezebel)
A bunch of teenage girls decided to “go wild” in the back room of the KFC they worked at. This would be wildly inappropriate if it weren’t just s’damn funny. (YBNBY)
One of my exes always sends photo cards of him and his (now) wife dressed in “ironic” Christmas sweaters, and yeah… It was cute like the first three times. (SWPL)
Here’s a bunch of people cooler than you telling us what we should have been listening to this past year. (AV Club)
A nerd finally did it: “Canadian Man Builds Himself Robot Girlfriend.” Twilight Zone prophecy finally realized? Thanks, Charles! (FoxNews)
According to Jeremy, here are the 20 Biggest Douchebags of 2008, Part I. Damn Jerms, save something for Part II, will ya? Using all the best douchebags in the first half of the list? Rookie mistake. (NotesOnBarNapkins)
Here are five holiday sellout toys that most people would step over their own grandmother to buy for their kid. (mental floss)
Amy Poehler has moved onto a better place. Anywhere other than “Saturday Night Live,” that is. (Celebitchy)
I can’t even think of any other way to preface today’s clip other than “awesome”: (Thanks, Snath!)
My roommates and I have been watching that damn video three or four times a day for a week now, and I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY BRAIN! Spare thyselves, the hilarity is only marginally worth the indignation of going about various grown-uppy pursuits while having a song about cakes sung by a 10-year-old interspliced with "Break it down, bitch, back that motherfucker up," stuck in your head. I don't know which aspect is more degrading! I'll have to watch it a few more times to decide...
Posted by: kstar at December 15, 2008 12:27 PM
Haha, yes. Now you can all share my pain! Like kstar said, prepare to have it in your head forever.
"It's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake..."
Posted by: Snath at December 15, 2008 12:33 PM
All the girls on Rock of Love/Charm School/Shot at Love/Whatever dumbass dating show that VH1 dreams up always look to me like they were probably one of the hottest girls in their high school and just assumed that was all they needed to be. That Megan chick more than most though. I fully support her getting a beat-down from Sharon Osbourne.
The Nosek is so right about Dick. I can't explain it, but it's completely charming and funny.
Highlights: Everything with "Woodward & Bernstein" and, especially, Dan Hedaya in the role he was BORN TO PLAY. BORN.
Posted by: Jerce at December 15, 2008 12:35 PM
Between the video and the news about Curb my day has been made.
Stacey, you make me happy.
Posted by: becks at December 15, 2008 12:37 PM
Pooks has had many shoes thrown at him in his day, but mine were at the hands of women who didn't want me to leave. I speak for every man when I say that the first thing that crossed my mind when finding out that some young women had bathe in the sinks at KFC was, "I wonder what they look like." Am I right guys? Because let's face it, pretty women can do no wrong.
Posted by: Pookie at December 15, 2008 12:37 PM
Reason # 328,958 why I don't eat at KFC: skanky broads bathing in the kitchen.
God, how can you post something like that during lunch? It's unconscionable, Nosek.
Look - obviously you knew you were gonna chuck a shoe. I seriously doubt it was a spur of the moment chucking. That being said, why the hell didn't you train for it? If you're planning on doing something that'll more than likely wind up with you getting your ass beat and serving some serious time, don't you wanna make it count? Jesus, take a fucking week off of work, set up some targets in your home, practice on friends/relatives/other people's children, whatever - practice on a moving target. And what the hell was that? A run-of-the-mill loafer? WHO THE HELL CHUCKS A LOAFER? FYI, Captain Chuckalot - they make STEEL-TOED SHOES AND BOOTS. Yeah - let that sink in while you're sitting in your cell practicing sphincter-stretches in anticipation of your stay in the big house. You could've taken a little time, and put a little more thought behind your white-trash attack, but instead of effectively laying out a leader of the free world with das boot, you turned the last moments of your free time into a clip of the week... Bravo.
Posted by: Skitz at December 15, 2008 12:44 PM
I just read some news that will upset many of the men and some of the women on Pajiba. Christina Hendricks is engaged. Sorry everyone, guess you missed your shot.
Posted by: becks at December 15, 2008 12:45 PM
I should really be hanging out on a music site, because I've been listening to half of the celebrity recs already.
My undying love for Mr. Show is making me listen to all of Basia Bulat right now.
Posted by: Sabrina at December 15, 2008 12:46 PM
Bloggers are suggesting that Americans can register their disgust over the last 8 years by mailing old smelly shoes to the White House:
If Jericho fans can get a mail-in protest campaign together, then anti-Bushies have no excuse.
Posted by: Ranylt at December 15, 2008 12:48 PM
Also, with regards to those Holiday sell out toys, if I had not played Wii Fit in Ireland where one of my roommates owned it, I would not believe it really existed. I see commercials for it all the time, our local Target has a flat screen television devoted to running a Wii Fit promo constantly during store hours, but have I ever (EVER) seen a Wii Fit in the box in a store? No. Never. Not a single time. It's insanity.
Luckily for me and my loyal followers, we have already withstood that video. I think TK is still mad at me for getting him to watch it, though.
Christina Hendricks is engaged.
I know I probably will never meet her...and even if I did, there is little to no chance I have a shot...but still...the BOOBS command me to hunt the lucky man down and congratulate him.
With a shotgun.
To his face.
Boobs.
Posted by: Vermillion at December 15, 2008 12:53 PM
The best part of the shoe chucking incident is that no Secret Service people give a rat's ass. Where were they? He got both shoes off! He could have shot Bush about 10 times before anyone intervened.
I think the general consensus of the Secret Service must be that no one wants to be the guy who died to save this particular President's life. That's not exactly the legacy anyone wants to go out with.
Posted by: becks at December 15, 2008 12:53 PM
I have to admit, I felt bad for Bush during that video. I hate seeing people humiliated.
I'm obviously a pod person today, the Julie that despises every cell in Bush's body must be out saying inappropriate comments to the elderly. She'll be back.
Posted by: Julie at December 15, 2008 12:59 PM
Christina Hendricks is engaged
Gaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - k!
(My only solace is that there is no possible way she could be satisfied with one man.)
Posted by: ted boynton at December 15, 2008 12:59 PM
OK, OK, everyone wants to talk about shoes and boobs. I will say this to all the people going "He could've been shot!" No. I seriously doubt that everyone didn't have to walk through security before a conference with the president of the country currently occupying their country. That's probably why he had to resort to throwing a shoe.
As for boobs, mine are probably bigger, so I've never been particularly entranced.
Posted by: Sabrina at December 15, 2008 1:06 PM
Christina Hendricks is engaged
I've waited this long, so what's another six months.
Skitz, you shouldn't get so upset. I'm sure the guy stepped in some really nasty dog shit before the assasination attempt.
Posted by: admin at December 15, 2008 1:06 PM
Julie>> I'm somewhat with you. I guess I was just a sucker for Josh Brolin's sympathy-inducing portrayal.
Still, somehow the shoe seems like a perfect coda to these eight years - something so on-the-nose that it would seem to belong in a movie but is somehow in fact real-life. It reminds me of the pretzel incident. Perhaps Oliver Stone should shoot it and stick on the DVD after the credits.
Posted by: DarthCorleone at December 15, 2008 1:08 PM
Plus, I can't help but feel shame for what this symbolizes for the image of our country and the office of the Presidency. Nobody would throw a shoe at Josiah Bartlet.
Posted by: DarthCorleone at December 15, 2008 1:12 PM
Oh, believe me Stace, that is no rook mistake. The next batch of douchebaggery will top the last, rest assured.
And for the record, I totally stood in line for a Wii. I got up at 5:30 in the morning, got a lift down to a Toys-R-Us, and waited in line in the snow for THREE GODDAMN HOURS just to get my hands on one of those things. The best part about it all? There were only 20 available, and we got #16. Totally worth it.
Posted by: Jeremy Feist at December 15, 2008 1:15 PM
It's ok, Julie. I felt a smidge of pity for him, too. But only a little.
I tried to watch SNL this weekend for the first time in 3 years, and it was just so boring. I wasn't sure if it was Hugh Laurie (who's great w/ deadpan humor) the lousy writing, the so-so cast, but I knew I'd made the right decision not tuning in for a while. Missed Amy Poehler's last skit, though. Damn.
Christina Hendricks will always be that girl from the Kevin Hill show (yes, I watched it) and that sad Lifetime movie about her bulimic sister. She wore some drab clothes; I had no idea that she had such big boobs.
Posted by: Brie at December 15, 2008 1:17 PM
I think the shoe has some meaning in their culture actually. I don't feel like looking it up.
The shooting thing was just a joke that seemed to be a logical extension of the scenario. I would have made that clearer at the time Sabrina but I was entranced by your boobs.
Posted by: becks at December 15, 2008 1:19 PM
As for boobs, mine are probably bigger, so I've never been particularly entranced.
Good lord, are there asteroids and other debris trapped in orbit around them?
Posted by: rikkitikkitavi at December 15, 2008 1:22 PM
Live by the tit, die by the tit, you poor bastards. I am unperturbed. I think I already knew that too but I can't remember.
Posted by: rikkitikkitavi at December 15, 2008 1:24 PM
Ah, sorry becks, I was responding more to the people on QuizLaw talking about the SS. I probably should've gone and been a bitch over there instead of here.
Posted by: Sabrina at December 15, 2008 1:28 PM
Our Mrs. Reynolds is engaged? Aw. Another celebrity-lust-pipe-dream bites the dust.
Posted by: DarthCorleone at December 15, 2008 1:31 PM
Good lord, are there asteroids and other debris trapped in orbit around them?
You would be surprised.
Posted by: Sabrina at December 15, 2008 1:34 PM
I don't know if Lil' Stefani there has what it takes to be a true video ho. She's got the splits down, but there's so much life in her eyes. Rookie mistake.
Posted by: jM at December 15, 2008 1:35 PM
That's okay Sabrina. But I get one free motorboat on ya as a bit of a kiss-and-make-up. You know I can't stay mad at your enormous boobies. Yay boobies!
Posted by: becks at December 15, 2008 1:36 PM
Only if we can put on our old cheerleading uniforms first.
Posted by: Sabrina at December 15, 2008 1:45 PM
Okay, but just the skirts and pompoms.
Posted by: becks at December 15, 2008 1:51 PM
You would be surprised.
Do men count as debris?
Posted by: admin at December 15, 2008 1:55 PM
"I think the shoe has some meaning in their culture actually. I don't feel like looking it up."
The DJ on the radio station I was listening to this morning was explaining how presenting the bottoms of feet/shoes is incredibly disrespectful in Iraqi culture, so the whole thing is an even bigger "fuck you" to Bush than it appears. I'm not sure if that's entirely true, but it kinda makes sense to me, obviously the shoe wasn't going to hurt, but symbolically it's even more humiliating.
Posted by: eat my shorts at December 15, 2008 1:55 PM
skitz,
And if you're not going to do any of that, you could at least shoot for irony and use COWBOY boots.
Your rant reminds me of those idiots who boost cases of beer out of the 7-Eleven. I always check to see if the police report mentions the brand, and when it does it's always some $5.99-a-30-pack shite like Natural Light. You know, if you're going to prison for stealing beer, why not make it GOOD beer?
Posted by: bucdaddy at December 15, 2008 1:56 PM
I do adore Dick. But I don't let it rule my life.
Posted by: Princess Leah at December 15, 2008 2:06 PM
Do men count as debris?
Hah! In my world they do, since they're all pieces of trash. Not that I'm still sexually frustrated or anything...
Becks, that works for me. The pompoms are the best part.
Posted by: Sabrina at December 15, 2008 2:11 PM
What i love about the VietnamCanadian guy and his robot is that he's all 'oh i totally built this robot from the ground up'
And clearly CLEARLY, he has bought himself a RealGirl(tm), one of those sex dolls, and then stuck mechanical shit all up in her
For robotic purposes, bot because its an unusual proclivity
Posted by: nadine at December 15, 2008 2:22 PM
Might be less frustrated if you stopped callin' em trash.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: I Love Beets at December 15, 2008 2:24 PM
the canadian guy who built the robot had the best quote:
"Aiko is still a virgin, AND NO I do not sleep with her," though he admits that she "has sensors in her body including her private parts, and yes even down there."
While I appreciate the advice, Beet, I was just trying to make a joke. I really only call one man trash, and that was the result of the frustration, not the cause.
Posted by: Sabrina at December 15, 2008 2:37 PM
One thing is for sure, most women act like they don't have fellings "Down There" because they lay there like dead fish.
Posted by: Pookie at December 15, 2008 2:41 PM
Dick is definitely underappreciated. Even in that list, the writer obviously hasn't spent the amount of time admiring Dick like I have. ("Love's Theme" plays during the sepia-toned dream sequence; "Lady Marmalade" plays over a montage as Arlene shifts her attention from Tommy Sherman to Dick.) Though Princess Leah is right, and you can't let Dick rule your life, it has been a welcome addition to my life since before I could even say Dick in public. If loving Dick is wrong, I don't want to be right. My life has certainly been made better by all my hours repeatedly enjoying Dick.
Everyone should now feel free to giggle like nine-year-olds.
But seriously, I love Dick.
Posted by: foursweatervests at December 15, 2008 2:42 PM
*feelings* shit!
Posted by: Pookie at December 15, 2008 2:44 PM
Shit. Bobby Sherman, not Tommy Sherman. It's so hard to remember all those teen-beat dreamboats.
Posted by: foursweatervests at December 15, 2008 2:44 PM
Sabrina, I was just joking as well. This is yet again why we need a sarcasm font!
Pookie, you might be doing it wrong. That's not sarcasm, just to be clear.
Posted by: I Love Beets at December 15, 2008 2:59 PM
That guy on the right? Hell of a man. Someone set off an incendiary grenade on his head and he's STILL trying to protect the president.
Posted by: bucdaddy at December 15, 2008 3:01 PM
One thing is for sure, most women act like they don't have fellings "Down There" because they lay there like dead fish.
The more I get a sense of your proclivities, Pooks, the more scared I get. Just FYI - "most" women don't just lie there.
But dead ones do.
Posted by: Tammy at December 15, 2008 3:03 PM
Pookie you're the shit!
You and your spelling mistakes.
Hah! In my world they do, since they're all pieces of trash.
It must be true. I can feel myself being drawn to the hyper-mammiforous majesty of your bosom Sabrina.
Posted by: admin at December 15, 2008 3:10 PM
Hah, goddamn Beets, we really do. I'm going to back away from the computer now, because this whole "internet talking with words" thing is not working out so well for me.
Posted by: Sabrina at December 15, 2008 3:10 PM
Tammy my proclivities are normal thank you. And don't knock having relations with dead women until you've tried it.
Posted by: Pookie at December 15, 2008 3:17 PM
Christina Hendricks is engaged
Gaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - k!
(My only solace is that there is no possible way she could be satisfied with one man.)
Posted by: ted boynton at December 15, 2008 12:59 PM
Bush deserves more than a shoe thrown at him. Maybe an anvil...?
Posted by: ph at December 15, 2008 6:48 PM
I gotta give Dubya props for having good reflexes. He managed to duck both shoes.
But the funny thing is: I saw this on MSN.Com the other day and one explanation for the "attack" was that in Arab countries, throwing shoes at someone is considered to be an insult. Like, if it had happened in, say, Tampa Florida it would have had a different meaning?
Posted by: greer at December 15, 2008 7:11 PM
Greer you are correct in that throwing a shoe at someone in an Arab country has a different meaning than say, Tampa. In a pimp's world throwing a shoe at a worker is a sign of disharmony.
Posted by: Pookie at December 15, 2008 7:35 PM
I'd throw a dutch wooden clog at some clowns here on pajiba.com
The douche level is on ultra high!
Posted by: squared3 at December 15, 2008 8:07 PM
I'm not sure what that means, but does anyone else keep thinking that guy's head's on fire?
Of course a Canadian made the first robot girlfriend. Because it's so cold here, blue balls become ice balls, which I understand are far more uncomfortable.
Posted by: Lauren at December 16, 2008 12:48 AM
frighteningly enough, lil stephanie in the lazytown video is no little kid. She will be 18 in a few months.
Posted by: IheartBender at December 16, 2008 2:42 AM
The shoe-toss was fantastic, regardless of whether Bush dodged the shoes. I think Bush knew that shoe was a'comin' for a long time.
Posted by: samantha t at December 16, 2008 6:06 AM
You simpletons miss the point again. The moron openly expressed his hatred of the man was most responsible for ridding his country of a horrible, deranged dictator and he wasn't killed, but made into a hero. Viva freedom. Viva America.
Just remember this when the new cool guy in the White House is hated by 65% of the country. Let's see if you all act as charitably.
My roommates and I have been watching that damn video three or four times a day for a week now, and I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY BRAIN! Spare thyselves, the hilarity is only marginally worth the indignation of going about various grown-uppy pursuits while having a song about cakes sung by a 10-year-old interspliced with "Break it down, bitch, back that motherfucker up," stuck in your head. I don't know which aspect is more degrading! I'll have to watch it a few more times to decide...