YSaC, Vol. 1159: It’s a great idea, but possibly not, and I’m not being indecisive!

2012 January 4

**SPONGE** Sponge And More Sponge


This is some fun sponge.
Throw it at your wife and not get a Domestic Violence charge against you.
Kid love the stuff, fun for all ages.
Be the entertainment on your block and have a sponge party.
Fill your apartment swimming pool and get some laffs.
Glue the sponge all over your car and never get dents again.
Uses are endless for such great american sponge.
If interested, shoot me an email with a contact number.
Let’s make a sponge holiday and enjoy.



Are you ready, snarkers? *mumbles*
I can’t HEAR you! *slightly louder mumbles*
Ohh….
Who sells on the internets things that you see?
Sparky Spongepants!
Scary and Slimey and Unclear is He!
Sparky Spongepants!
If a cellulose party is something you wish,
Sparky Spongepants!
Then answer his ad and pay shipping and “ish.”
Sparky Spongepants!

READY?

Sparky Spongepants
Sparky Spongepants
Sparky Spongepants
SPARKY SPONGEPANTS!

(You can blame Erin for this one. Thanks Erin!)

56 Responses leave one →
  1. 2012 January 4
    Lola permalink

    “great american sponge”? Hmm. I think I dated that guy. Briefly. To where his … absorbent qualities became apparent.

    Other thoughts, or, rather, questions: Is the little girl extra, or part of the deal? And is anyone else troubled by the fact that the first thing they cite as a use is an attempt to avoid domestic violence charges? Lastly (at least for now), why is the sponge segregated by color?

    Adores: 11
    • 2012 January 4

      1 – She is the free gift with purchase.

      2 – Yes.

      3 – They are racist sponges.

      Adores: 10
      • 2012 January 4

        White spongepremisists make me sick.

        Adores: 11
        • 2012 January 4
          Bombdude permalink

          *spongepremacists*

          /pedanticity

          Adores: 9
        • 2012 January 4

          End spongepartheid now!

          Adores: 8
      • 2012 January 4
        Tankerbell permalink

        They’re jingoistic, too. Note how careful Sparky was to mention that they’re American sponges. Bungholes. I vote we kill them with fire. Let’s give them to that Winterburne guy for his next pyromaniac holiday. According to Ralph’s linky, this here sponge burns real good.

        Adores: 7
    • 2012 January 4
      valarie permalink

      I was also deeply disturbed by that first use. But it all fits together like a sad story. He hits his wife, ties on at the neighborhood (apartment complex) party, dumps stuff in the pool, and tears out in his car only to get in an accident. He looks within his soul (using the term loosely) and decides to turn his life around with the help of some innocent child and Styrofoam packing material (or “sponge” as his addled cracker mind views it).

      Or is that too bleak?

      Adores: 11
      • 2012 January 4
        valarie permalink

        ugh…ties *one* on. I tried a different brand of coffee, and there is no kick to it.

        Adores: 7
        • 2012 January 4

          Poor purple fishie. Here, have one of Taco’s super-special espresso coffee slices.

          :puts slice on disposable plate:

          Quick, before it eats through the paper!

          Adores: 8
    • 2012 January 4
      Irregular Fractal permalink

      Y’know, it’s a little known fact that Great American Sponge was the working title for Spongebob Squarepants. Before the signature square pants, they had him in this red pajama suit with this on the chest:

      Adores: 8
      • 2012 January 4
        Lola permalink

        Believe it or not …

        Adores: 4
        • 2012 January 4
          Bombdude permalink

          I’m walking on air…

          Adores: 2
        • 2012 January 4
          Windrose permalink

          I never thought I could feel so free-he-he!

          Adores: 2
      • 2012 January 4
        funky "eMonkey" monkey permalink

        The more you know….

        Adores: 4
  2. 2012 January 4
    Ralph permalink

    Sponge parties can include the whole neighborhood.

    Adores: 4
    • 2012 January 4
      Ralph permalink

      Foam, foam rearranged
      Where the fear and the antidote play
      Where never is heard a non- polymer word
      And the guys are not grouchy all day.

      Adores: 8
  3. 2012 January 4

    “Kids, get ready to go; the Sparksons are having a sponge party.”

    “Again? Mom, do we have to?”

    “Yes, we have to. We owe them socially. Now be on your best behavior and try to pretend to have fun with discarded packing materials from stereos and computers.”

    Adores: 13
  4. 2012 January 4
    Windrose permalink

    He made a nearly life-like doll from the sponges! And I love what he’s done with the front yard. Never mow again. Uh, where’s the chihuahua?

    Adores: 7
  5. 2012 January 4
    Innana permalink

    But…am I sponge-worthy?

    Adores: 15
    • 2012 January 4
      funky "eMonkey" monkey permalink

      Ahhhh! You beat me to it!

      *pouts*

      Adores: 4
  6. 2012 January 4

    Oh! It’s Child’s First Dumpster Portrait! I’ve been looking for one of those.

    Adores: 11
  7. 2012 January 4
    camille permalink

    Speaking of “ish” -I learned over the holidays that there is an employee at my mom’s retirement community named Ishmael. Guess what his nickname is.

    I think Moby Dick might have been a whole different book if it had begun, “Call me Ish.”

    Adores: 7
  8. 2012 January 4
    funky "eMonkey" monkey permalink

    Wait, are those…

    *puts on old lady glasses*

    Those are toilets in the upper right corner, in the background of the last pic, aren’t they? He and Curly Sue there are dumpster divers, they’re at the local landfill and they think they’ve found something they can make a buck off of.

    Adores: 7
  9. 2012 January 4

    Splunge!

    Adores: 4
    • 2012 January 4
      CapnMac permalink

      “Doris Dog goes up to Rock Tree, and she . . . piddles on him!”

      Adores: 3
  10. 2012 January 4
    Meej permalink

    Let’s make a sponge holiday indeed! That sounds like a fabulous idea. Sponge cake, little sponge hats, we can sponge paint the ceiling of the back bedroom, and so forth! Who’s in?

    I propose we go with January 13, in honor of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s birthday. Plus it’s a week from this Friday!

    Adores: 5
    • 2012 January 4
      Windrose permalink

      This Friday is the 12th Day of Beesmas! We have to drink mead and eat honey cakes in honor of the Three Wise Beekeepers who worshiped at the Hive!

      Adores: 4
  11. 2012 January 4
    LimeLolly permalink

    This is some fun sponge.

    The last time I heard that phrase, it took 6 tubes of ointment, 2 rounds of antibiotics and a scourging to clean that up.

    Adores: 11
    • 2012 January 4
      Lola permalink

      Scouring sucks. Most insurance plans won’t pay for it so they take it out of your hide.

      Adores: 5
      • 2012 January 4
        CapnMac permalink

        Many insurance ‘remedies’ resemble “scourging” as is.

        I’d probably taken more Accounting classes, had I known they had curricula in flagellation, switch botany, or such similar enhanced calculation formulae.

        Adores: 3
        • 2012 January 4
          funky "eMonkey" monkey permalink

          Woo hoo Cap’n! Kinky! Talk nerdy to me!

          Adores: 3
        • 2012 January 4
          Windrose permalink

          LL, are we talking the sponge-type birth control thingies? Cause you never want to get them from the dollar store.

          Adores: 2
        • 2012 January 4
          LimeLolly permalink

          Windy…. I…. wasn’t thinking of that direction.

          :shudders and crosses legs:

          Eww.

          Adores: 2
        • 2012 January 4
          Lola permalink

          One of the things that I always think about when I’m in line at the dollar store – there are three within walking distance of my house – is that if you buy the condoms there, you may well be back soon after for the pregnancy test kits that hang right next to them, behind the counter.

          Adores: 2
        • 2012 January 4
          Tankerbell permalink

          I think the same thing about the food at the dollar store. It seems seriously dodgy.

          Adores: 2
        • 2012 January 4
          Lola permalink

          Someone told me that it IS dodgy, but I can’t remember why. I’ve bought cheap 2-liters of diet Coke or seltzer there, but other than that, no edibles. (But candles featuring saints no one’s ever heard of? All I want!)

          Adores: 3
  12. 2012 January 4

    This as sucks…

    Adores: 2
  13. 2012 January 4
    Fl'amme Appat permalink

    Does it matter that they aren’t actually sponges? I suppose not…

    Adores: 3
  14. 2012 January 4
    CraigsLister permalink

    the las time i throwed a spunge at th’ wifey, dommestic charges were filed.
    she gets out nex fryday

    Adores: 5
    • 2012 January 4
      LimeLolly permalink

      Wouldn’t it be easier to make your own sandwich? 8)

      Adores: 3
      • 2012 January 4
        CapnMac permalink

        Not if it’s sponge on rye with sourkelp

        Adores: 1
  15. 2012 January 4
    Bianchi Sound permalink

    You guys make me laff!

    Adores: 4
  16. 2012 January 4

    That *is* some fun sponge. And you can tell kids like it ’cause there’s a kid right there! What excellent marketing!

    Adores: 6
    • 2012 January 4

      :draws random squiggles representing foam bits on napkin, presents it to a toy company’s board of directors:

      You know – for kids!

      Adores: 9
    • 2012 January 4
      funky "eMonkey" monkey permalink

      In keeping with Dan’s (BBUH) Spongebob theme, I will say that some of the black chunks o’ sponge do look like the karate (or kay-rah-TAY) helmet that Spongebob wears.

      (Joy! While trying to find a pic of Spongebob wearing the helmet I discovered spongepedia.com! It’s the best day ever!)

      Adores: 5
  17. 2012 January 4
    Digitalaxis permalink

    It’s foam! It’s foam! It’s light, it’s fluffy, it’s sponge! It’s foam, it’s foam, it’s better than bad, it’s good!

    Adores: 9
    • 2012 January 4
      Windrose permalink

      But does it roll over stairs, alone or in pairs?

      Adores: 2
  18. 2012 January 4
    eeee permalink

    If I were to admit that I would actually respond to this ad, and possibly even pay hard cash money for these things [depending on how (un)squishable they were and whether or not they smelled], would y’all throw sponges at me in derision?

    Because I can actually handle the derision; what I NEED is some lightweight, easily-custom-sizeable, rectangular block type things. And if y’all’d throw them at me instead of me having to pay this guy, and probably listen to his “dang furriners” rhetoric in the bargain, I’d count that as a win.

    (It’s a bookshelf issue, don’t ask.)

    Adores: 5
    • 2012 January 4
      LimeLolly permalink

      I wouldn’t throw them in derision.

      It would be with lots of glee.

      One man’s trash ….

      Adores: 4
      • 2012 January 4
        Tankerbell permalink

        Like my learned colleague LimeLolly, I would hurl said sponges at you with glee. It is the cast of Glee at whom I would hurl them with derision.*

        *this may not be true.

        Adores: 3
    • 2012 January 5
      I Wear Pants permalink

      Ah, see, I’d be buying them to sculpt into amusing little statues, which I would then throw at people.

      Adores: 0
  19. 2012 January 5
    TinyBallofLight permalink

    Yay! This was my submission. Yes, Erin is TinyBallofLight. =)

    Oh sponges, glorious sponges, how I wish you were mine.

    (Is the kid included?)

    Adores: 5
    • 2012 January 5
      Windrose permalink

      Tiny, we don’t see enough of you around here! Congrats on the submission, it’s certainly. . .that is, I think it’s. . .well, congratulations!

      Adores: 1
      • 2012 January 5
        TinyBallofLight permalink

        Thanks, I’ve missed you all too! I started a new job and was in a play (which took 3 months of my life away from me). So, that’s where I’ve been. But, I’ll try to stop in from time to time. =)

        Adores: 0
  20. 2012 January 5
    Windrose permalink

    Ralph and Hammy, you’re on your way to winning all the innerwebs that will fit in a Llama-nun (MBBUH) coffee mug! Punchity Punch Punch!

    Good Morning, Bikini Bottom!

    Adores: 1

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