Greg Oden, Portland’s favorite “big man,” apparently took some racy pictures with his cell phone and then sent them via SMS to… someone. Naturally, they ended up online.
When Oden had a presser later to come clean and, uh, “open the kimono” about the affair, he downplayed the sexting situation.
“I took those pictures a year and a half ago. I’ve grown a lot since then.”
BADA-BOOM!
A young reporter, seemingly trying to avoid participation in such a crass circus, asked, “For the team, how big of a distraction is this?”
“About 10 inches,” everyone whispered under their breath.
BADA-BING!
Just to hammer the joke home, from the musical Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog: “The hammer is my penis.” Or in this case, Oden’s.
If you’ve enjoyed the Downfall Meme videos like the ones about the Xbox, the Hillary Campaign, and the World of Warcraft, then you probably speak English. For German speaking viewers, the joke is a bit lost. Well, this variation explains why these videos are so funny to all you German speaking people. (caution, some subtitles use adult language)
TP texts: text messages, emails, tweets, and Facebook updates sent from your iPhone while you’re on the pot in the bathroom.
Example 1:
“Quit TP texting and get out of the bathroom! I need to get ready for work!”
Example 2:
“Ugh. Dude. Did you just TP text that tweet? That’s nasty. I gotta go decontaminate my keyboard. Does Norton Antivirus catch staphylococcus and rotavirus?”
Example 3:
“If my girl ever finds out our sexy texting is actually TP texting, I’m a dead man.”
Example 4:
“TP texting is plain wrong. For the same reason you don’t touch the magazines in someone else’s bathroom. It might be perfectly clean, but I don’t know that. Plus I can’t ever wash away the mental image of you thumbing one-handed. *shudder*.”
As I mentioned before, I work at an interactive marketing agency. Our newly trademarked tagline is “Lead with Interactive.” And on the new site, there’s this terrible video of me (and soon, others) explaining what Lead with Interactive means to them. Why I seem unable to speak and squint at the same time is a mystery to me. Thinking appears to be physically painful. Ugh.
Anyway, the launch of our new website and the tagline coincided with our Halloween party, so I shot a second spoof video to share with the team.
Warning: Language at the end gets a little NSFW. Because nothing’s funnier than the F-bomb.
John Hodgman, on The Daily Show, promoting his new book. It’s fascinating.
As random as my sense of humor is — and I think we can all agree that it can be a bit scattered at times — Hodgman doesn’t do it for me. Oh, he’s genius as PC in the Apple ads. But most of his bits on The Daily Show don’t really resonate. Chuckle, sure. Laugh out loud? Not so much.
mass media, pop culture | thom | 
January 27, 2010 8:07 am | 
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