A product no simian should be without. Like this or this or even this. This on the onther hand is just wrong somehow.
All images are from Tom's Wacky Packages Page, the most complete guide to the card series I've seen online. I'm willing to bet that more than a few monkey islanders sense of humor was molded in part by these gems, which could be very twisted, occasionally surreal and even branching off into satire of satire.
Wallow, brethren, wallow!
Posted by jonmc at August 20, 2002 10:17 PMAnd while I must admit that this is the first time I'm seeing Wacky Packages, my childhood was severely warped by these.
Posted by: ColdChef on August 20, 2002 10:23 PMThank you for bringing me down a very weird memory lane. I forgot all about these!
Posted by: readymade
on
August 20, 2002 11:05 PM
See, people talk about how Bad Things Are today. But there's no way you'd see something like the "Babysplitter's Club" today.
Discuss.
Posted by: jpoulos on August 20, 2002 11:07 PMActually, I think I have anti-social tendencies because of these cards!
Posted by: readymade on
August 20, 2002 11:11 PM
I can honestly say that I was the first GPK, Adam Bomb. A guy I know named Todd got Odd Todd tattooed on his arm by my tattooist. Really.
Posted by: adampsyche on August 21, 2002 08:26 AM
Here's the plan: when McNally goes to sleep, we swoop down and filch his flannel shirt!
Posted by: Miguel on August 22, 2002 04:57 AM"filch" is a truly wonderful word. I forgot about "filch".
I'm gonna go flich stuff, just so I can say I filched it.
Posted by: jpoulos on August 22, 2002 09:44 AMA Utahn would pronounce "filch" as "felch." Also "melk" for "milk" and "pellow" for "pillow." Also "sell" for "sale" or "well" for "whale." The "eh" sound is very popular.
Also, they tend to add dipthongs to anything they can and take out consonants wherever possilbe.
Thus "something" would become "suh-ehyan" and "mountain" becomes "mou-ehyan".
This concludes your "Dialects of the Intermountain West" session for today.
Posted by: witchstone on August 22, 2002 02:28 PM"melk" and "pellow" are like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. that pops up in other regional dialects too, i think, as i know very few utahns.
Posted by: jpoulos on August 22, 2002 07:43 PMWould you like the quickie Utah dialect lesson?
Here we go. Repeat after me:
The former put his carn in his born.
This has been another installment of Crash Davis' "How to Converse with the Locals". Tune in tomorrow when we take a ride over the viadock to Evvingston Wyoming to see a triantula.
Posted by: Crash on August 22, 2002 08:00 PMOf course, down East (meaning in Maine - why Maine is "down East" has to this point escaped me) a populah expression is "ya cain't get they-ah from he-ah".
This has nothing to do with the thread, and is hopelessly out of date, but I wanted to comment here to mention that I like saying the word "diphthong".
Diphthong.
Diphthong, diphthong, diphthong.
Go about your business.
Posted by: yhbc on August 22, 2002 10:20 PMCommish, you'll probably like the word in Portuguese too - it would make a good name for a big ape:
Ditongo!
Posted by: Miguel on August 22, 2002 10:38 PMFEAR ME!!!
I am DiTONGO, the Great White Kung-Fu Ape!
* looks all menacing and inscrutable *
Posted by: yhbc on August 22, 2002 11:15 PMOh c'mon, that name's not even original! Use some sort of moniker for the love of Xerxes!
Here, I'll even suggest a couple you can choose from:
Slaphappy Bentworth P. Noblecutter
Preston Cletus Frohme III
Sheniqua Merryweather.
See, it's not hard. If you're going to piss us all off with this shit, at least toss us a bone.
yes, I realize that I'm yelling at a script. It's been a long week. Forgive me.
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