The Week In Review
It’s funny how my kids are familiar with the entire Santa Claus mythology, yet they could give a flying fuck about where the Easter Bunny comes from. They know all about the North Pole, Mrs. Claus, their sex slaves elves, the reindeer, and any of a million details related to Christmas, but nothing about the Easter Bunny. I asked my three year old, “Where does the Easter Bunny come from?” He looked at me as if I was a mental patient, threw up his arms and said, “I don’t know!” exactly the same way you would say it if I asked you how many purses Lindsay Lohan has. They really don’t give a rat’s ass about the Easter Bunny, just as long as that fucker makes with the candy.
Of course their tune changes quite a bit when they’re faced with the real thing. I dressed up as the Easter Bunny this year, and was awaiting the kids downstairs with their baskets of goodies. (We did the egg hunt the day before so my wife and I could drink wine in the park. It was fucking cool.) The kids came down, saw the baskets first, and then spied the Easter Bunny casually lounging on the couch, holding his head as if he had a massive hangover. In truth, the Easter Bunny was suffering from nothing more than misaligned eye-holes. He couldn’t move around a whole lot, or the eye holes would get totally out of whack, and he’d end up putting his head through the dry wall. And he had to hold his head because otherwise his single, way too small air hole would wander off around his ear, and then the kids would get to see the Easter Bunny unmasked and defibrillated in one day, and that’s just a tad on the traumatic side for my liking.
So my kids were very excited to see the Easter Bunny, and his frantic mascot-mugging. “Easter Bunny, why did you get me LEGO Ninjago?” Umm, I don’t know. Wave? Hands in the air? Fuck if I know how to do this mime-shit, kid. Go eat your candy. “Hahaha! The Easter Bunny tripped over my train!” So it was pretty cool, and I even did the Easter Bunny Charleston, which is just like the Charleston, only it is performed while turning blue from oxygen starvation. But when I left, the kids just said, “Bye!” while tearing into their candy. They didn’t even look up. If that had been Santa, they would’ve followed his ass out to watch him get on his sleigh, they’d have questions about his reindeer, want to meet Rudolph, etc. The Easter Bunny? “Yeah, bye, close the door so neighborhood kids don’t try to take my fucking candy.”
Yeah, bye Easter... Doggy... or... whoever the fuck you are... Umm...
Ever see the Easter Bunny at the mall? Santa is always mobbed, but two years in a row now we found ourselves at the mall shortly before Easter and said, “Oh, hey, kids! You want to see the Easter Bunny?” And E.B. is sitting there moping because there are absolutely no people in line to see him. The surly teens that take your photo are sexting their friends, or downloading porn, or whatever it is teens do in the mall with their phones these days. It’s pathetic. My kids get up there and the Easter Bunny is kind of bitter. His pantomimes scream with sarcasm. “Hey, wow, look at this! Three kids! Three of ’em! Yeah, that makes me feel better. Santa gets more kids in his stall when he’s taking a fucking dump!” Meanwhile, the kids are barely tolerating this. They’re not really into it, but it beats the hell out of being with mommy when she starts looking at shoes.
And you know what? I agree with my kids. Fuck the Easter Bunny. I like my imaginary holiday characters to be incapable of getting mange. You can bargain with Santa Claus. You can even bargain with the Tooth Fairy. (“Since I knocked my brother’s teeth out, shouldn’t I get a 10% finder’s fee?”) But the Easter Bunny? How reliable can he be? He might leave you candy in the morning, or he might’ve gotten a little careless in Ireland and wound up as stew. And I’m not even going to get into the whole sanitary aspect of a bunny delivering you pellet-shaped foodstuffs.
Anyway, on to the week you missed while you were wondering why a bunny would be delivering eggs…
- On Tuesday, I confessed to a whole lot of crimes, and still it was the cops that came off sounding like douchebags.
- On Wednesday, we found out that the cops aren’t even good for basic math problems.
- On Thursday, I was dreaming of a white Easter, because snow kicks ass and I don’t have any of it down here.
- On Friday, we learned that I’m a man, Jerry.
- And on Saturday, we learned yet another way to get your wife to file for divorce.
This week’s collection of dick jokes and random death threats to weathermen is brought to you by PetSmart. Although, not really. It’s another installment of Involuntary Advertising:
A funny note about PetSmart: I used to have a beagle, and I never had any problems with the neighbors complaining until this total fuckface moved in next door to me. He called the cops while he was moving in because my dog barked at the unexpected activity going on ten feet away from his gate. No knock on my door, no note, just greet the neighbors by calling the cops on them.
Well beagles do howl, and I didn’t want to get into a running beef with a neighbor or Animal Control, so I went to PetSmart and bought a citronella bark collar. It sprays citronella at a dog’s nose when he barks, and dogs hate that which totally explains why I never see my dogs eating grapefruit. But my beagle was too smart for that. He figured out that there a limited number of charges in the collar, so he’d run around in circles with his head to the side, barking his ass off until the collar was empty. Then he’d go bark at the neighbor, who he had taken a (well deserved) dislike to.
So I had to go to PetSmart to pick up a shock collar. “Don’t worry,” said the PetSmart employee, “the shock is quite gentle.” “Fuck that,” I said, “my dog needs to stop barking. I want sparks to fly from that fucker’s tail.” And it was then that I saw that right next to the shock collars were little doggy headstones. “Well, if this collar doesn’t work, I guess I already know what aisle I’ll be visiting next.” The PetSmart guy started laughing his ass off. Totally doubled over and gasping for air. The lesson? PetSmart employees love the reefer.
Sadly, they also include the pets on their munchie breaks.
Our voting booths jave just closed, and they are in desperate need of a good hosing down because of this week’s poll:
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Since some of these are extremely foul, I’m only going to define the top two entries. The winner in a close contest was the Hot Karl, which is when you hit someone in the face with a sock full of shit. I get the “hot” part of it (I mean, I guess if you do it soon after filling said sock), but Karl?
The second entry was my favorite, which is the good old Abe Lincoln. This is when you spooge on someone’s chin, trim their pubes, stick the pubes onto the chin, and put a top hat on the person. Because, you know, this happens every fucking day and it had to be named.
The rest of the entries didn’t fair very well because people were probably grossed out before they even looked them up, or they did look them up and decided never to look at my site again. I can’t say I blame them. The Alabama Hotpocket is totally lacking any socially redeeming qualities. Disgusting.
That’s it for another seven days of our lives. One day, on my deathbed, I will look back and think to myself, “I spent an entire day fucking around, and the only thing I did that day was post a Jerry Springer clip. I want that day back!” So, I’ll set my sights high and try to top that this week. It shouldn’t be hard.
Me and my grandson, 50 years from now. "You know? I was not prepared for his last words to have that many f-bombs."
I don’t know a single thing about Easter either, but chocolate eggs, yummm! XD
Exactly, and you probably couldn’t care less if the Easter Bunny brought it to you or Charles Manson. Chocolate eggs!
The Easter Bunny left me something I could “taste, chew and enjoy” and it was NOT Diet Ayds. I love my Easter Bunny.
I hope you peeked under the costume, because if you didn’t it may have been someone so foul that you would have wished for it to be Charles Manson.
Thanks for the heads up. But I *always* look before I chew. What kind of girl do you think I am?
Do NOT answer that.
Urban dictionary is so useful. My husband and I were watching something on TV in which they referenced ‘dogs in a bathtub’, which neither of us understood. Fortunately good ole’ UD was there to explain stuff to the unhip.
Please tell me what show uses the phrase “dogs in a bathtub”. I need to be watching.
It hurts! So hilarious! I want a picture so bad. So do you have a tiny head or was it a matter of bunny-head engineering gone wrong?
Bad bunny-head engineering. The thing was too large (to accommodate people with big, giant melon heads, no doubt), and so it spun around at the drop of a hat. And the air hole was the size of a freaking straw.
I’ll see if the pics from the night before (involving much beer) are available. They’re much funnier.
I remember always being confused about the Easter Bunny as a child. When did rabbits start laying eggs? Is this a different breed of bunny? Are the eggs really just tasty turds? What the hell?
I’m pretty sure the Swedish Periscope could cause Pink Eye. Aside from that, it sounds delightful…
Brown eye is more like it.
Ha!
My kids never cared about Santa, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy. They were weird.
The Easter Bunny & the Tooth Fairy? Yeah, I can understand that. Fuck ’em. But Santa? That’s risking a serious loss of toys!
One time my daughter and I were playing with a toy phone (she was 4). I would take the phone and say, “Santa? Yeah, this is daddy. My daughter doesn’t want anything for Xmas. Ok, bye!” and I’d hang up. Then she’d frantically call Santa back and correct me.
Finally, out of frustration she said, “Santa I do want toys, and if you don’t bring me some, I will shoot you in the head!” Then she realized what she had done and broke into tears, and begged us to call Santa and explain.
I had no chocolate for myself at Easter, but I did buy some dog chocs for my doggy. A couple of extra drinks made up for my lack of sweets, amazing how that works.
Good for your beagle for doing the beagle thing, howling his head off and giving the shits to your asshole neighbor.
I may have to write about that dog. He was a complete character.
I got great mileage out of “Hot Karl” this week.
You have to admit, that would be pretty funny in a really juvenile-just-broke-out-of-a-mental-institution kind of way
I have this image of a man looking through his messy tangle of red hair, eyes glaring. The sock is swaying, but the weight has pulled it tight. He looks up, and with a curl lips his challenges “come at me bro”
It is a funny image, as is the image of a guy trying to shit in a sock.