Wait, what?

I went to the Mega Dollar the other day. It's not a dollar store. It's just a crappy version of Wal-Mart. In fact, it makes K-Mart look like Nordstrom. 

Here is the crazy thing. Look at this deceptive sign:

Everything in the store $1, less & up.

Soooo, any price. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

Guy Hutchinson

A-Team Bad Guys Figures

I loved the A-Team as a kid. It was about the coolest thing imaginable. 

Explosions, guest stars, crazy Murdock and Mr. T. It was a dream show for a 10 year old.

Eventually they put out a set of action figures. I looked at them in the toy store. I hated them.

They just looked so lame. Why are they wearing these weird single color jumpsuits? Where are B.A.'s chains? Murdock's bomber jacket? Hannibal's disguises? Face's... uh... ordinary preppie clothes. 

So I didn't buy em.

At the time.

I waited several decades so I could pay much more for them on eBay.

Regardless, they had a second set of figures:

The "bad guys". What the hell is this? I get that you need villains for the good guys to fight but these clowns?

Cobra? Good grief. He looks like John Oates. Why are there bite marks on the bottom of his vest?

What happened?

Viper? What is this? Looks like he may be an extra in a Heidi film. 

Python looks slightly intimidating.... at a glance. Then you realize it's essentially the guy on the Pringles can with ocular issues.

Rattler. Oh Rattler. Why are you winking at me? Why are you wearing feathers? Why do you have a flat head?

The world will never know care.

Mr. T as the White House Santa

The year was 1983. Jackie Collin's 'Hollywood Wives' topped the bestseller list, the Baltimore Orioles were baseball's world champions and Ronald Reagan was in the White House.

As a former matinee idol, Reagan had a lot of friends in Hollywood. So, it was no surprise that he chose the year’s biggest star to be Santa at the White House. Then he found out that E.T. wasn't real and went with the year’s SECOND biggest star.

 I have always loved this photo. Mr. T wearing Santa's suit (sans sleeves), with his trademark gold chains, looks a little confused.

And why shouldn't he be. He is at the White House, with the First Lady of the United States sitting on his lap and kissing him on the forehead. This is an honor usually reserved only for the President's themselves (and Paco, Rosalyn Carter's pool boy.)

Also, notice that Mr. T and Nancy are both holding Mr. T action figures. I am not sure what they did with them, but I hope that after the photo was taken Mr. T and Nancy ripped open the boxes and made the figures fight like rock 'em sock 'em robots.

MR. T: Hey, let's have our action figures fight!
NANCY: OK, yours can be Jimmy Carter and mine can be Paco.

I had Mr. T sign my copy of this photo a while back. His eyes lit up when he saw it.
"Look, it's me and Nancy!" Mr. T then showed the photo to the security guards and other bystanders. Everyone seemed amazed.

As a matter of fact, Mr. T was so amazed by the whole event that when he spoke at Reagan's re-inauguration he said "Only in America could a black man from Chicago go to the White House pretending to be a white man from the North Pole and not get arrested."

I don't know if other celebrities have played Santa at the White House since 1983. If they did, they had some pretty big shoes to fill.

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Snooki Christmas Ornament

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This is a real movie

I saw this in a discount bin. The question wasn't "should I get it?" it was "how many should I get?".

I settled on one for every TV.

IN THE WORLD!

If you see me on the street, ask for your copy.

I watched it as soon as I got home. It appears to have been made for SyFy or SciFi or maybe SighFie.

It tells the story of some super hot WWII chicks that land on an island with a bunch of dinosaurs. They hook up with the dinosaurs and make out for 70 minutes.

Brian O'Halloran, Jon Schnepp and Guy Hutchinson 2015

Some Christmas Mugs

Since Thanksgiving I have been pulling out the Christmas mugs and glasses I have shoved in the back of my cabinets.

Every time I have some beer, eggnog, hot chocolate, soda, water or whatever I pull out once of these bad boys.

Here's a fun little marshmallow snowman making himself into a smores. Seems like a painful thing to do. He's also selling himself for 5 cents... which is about how much a can of delicious Schaefer beer costs:

Here's a nice little cup I bought last year at the Philadelphia Christmas Village. I have no joke:

I got this at Wal-Mart this month. It's Santa. The look on his eyes says it all. His brains have been scooped out and replaced with eggnog:

Look at this one! I got this as a gift. It has a snowglobe at the bottom. How cool is that!! However, I shook beer everywhere trying to make it snow on Santa:

 Here is a kids cup from Sesame Place's A Very Furry Christmas event. I converted it into a booze container:

 This picture really does no justice to the full image that wraps around the mug. Plus, I put some cinnamon in the eggnog, but from the angle it just looks like the mug is dirty:

 Finally, this sweet Jack Skelington goblet. It's deceptively small: