Oh dear.

"Red Shirt Cologne"

eta: LOOKS DIRECTLY AT SA

I do know morbidly obese people who have trouble fitting into airline seats

Have you seen the ad? She's not morbidly obese, except maybe by BMI standards. And we know what that's worth. And to give them credit, it looks like her hubby still likes her a lot.

He also turns wine into water. (OK, he really turns wine into urine....)

"What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?" -- Isak Dinesen

"For the longest time McCain said torture doesn't work then he admitted in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last summer that he was broken by North Vietnamese. So what are we to think here?" - April 17, 2009.

McCain admitted that he was broken and would tell his captors anything he thought they wanted to hear. That is why he says torture doesn't work as an intelligence-gathering tool.

Oh, GAG.

I mean, I'm happy for Charlaine and everything and I hope to hell she's getting royalties off this, but really? Fake blood as a drink?

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Omni Consumer Products, which actually makes the stuff (called, just as in the series, Tru Blood) claims it's a "great tasting, refreshing and enlivening drink." Which is odd because the vampires in the show are always denouncing it as tasteless, dull and generally the vampire equivalent of tofuburgers, but whatever.

This is right up there with the sparkly vampire makeup.

I wouldn't lump the two together. Sparkly vampire makeup is just dumb (uh, isn't that just glitter?), but drinkable fake blood is fun! I have no idea what it's supposed to taste like, but I think it's kind of a neat idea.

Fake blood as a drink?

Apparently some of the bars around ComicCon had it for sale. I did not go try any, because I didn't want to fight the crowds.

but drinkable fake blood is fun!

At various times during my (more-)sordid goth post-adolescence, various goth bars in Seattle and Portland would experiment with blood-like drinks. Nowadays most people settle for red wine.

It's really not worth the effort, and usually tastes *foul* (mixing various alcohols to get just the right shade of red...that you can tell is red in club lighting...BAH!)

It's really not worth the effort, and usually tastes *foul* (mixing various alcohols to get just the right shade of red...that you can tell is red in club lighting...BAH!)

Yep. Almost as bad as the black vodka, which tasted like what I imagine printer toner would.

Stick to the sparkly pink vodka - at least it's drinkable.

I am kind of surprised that they aren't just slapping a Tru Blood label on something akin to Two-buck Chuck, but I am kind of fond of the novelty tie-ins. They're silly, yes, but that's kind of the point, isn't it?