{"id":1880,"date":"2011-09-21T12:40:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T16:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2011-09-21T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T16:43:00","slug":"two-scoops-of-knickers-in-a-twist-with-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"Two Scoops of Knickers in a Twist, with Nuts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve commented directly on the headlines, but some things need sayin&#8217;, if you know what I&#8217;m sayin&#8217;\u00a0&#8211; and I think you do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SNL&#8217;s &#8220;Schweddy Balls&#8221; skit is\u00a0one\u00a0of the most low-brow,\u00a0sophomoric, silly bits of comedy the show ever produced, and as such rightly earned its place in history as one of the funniest 5 minutes of television ever recorded.\u00a0 (&#8220;Oh, I just can&#8217;t wait to get\u00a0my mouth around\u00a0one of your\u00a0Schweddy Balls!&#8221;)\u00a0 That Ben and Jerry&#8217;s Ice Cream would want to leverage that fame to sell their product is understandable; that SNL would want to take money from Ben and Jerry&#8217;s,\u00a0even more so.<\/p>\n<p>That a\u00a0<a title=\"A Hodgepodge of Humorless Harridans!\" href=\"http:\/\/bites.today.com\/_news\/2011\/09\/21\/7876625-parents-call-for-boycott-of-ben-jerrys-schweddy-balls-flavor\" target=\"_blank\">hodgepodge of humorless harridans<\/a>\u00a0would jump up and form MASBIC &#8211; Mother&#8217;s Against Schweddy Ball Ice Cream &#8211; is lovely.\u00a0 The far right wingnuts now jumping to protect little Johnny from finding out that he not only has a pair, but that his daddy did, too &#8211; regardless of whether or not Daddy has any now, after having been married to Mommy for a while &#8211; well, all I can say is &#8220;Ginger, get the popcorn&#8221; because this should be fun to watch.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like America hasn&#8217;t been waiting to get its mouth on some Schweddy Balls for a while now.\u00a0 (&#8220;If you order from Season&#8217;s Eatings now, you can still send out a special Schweddy Ball Sack in time.&#8221;)\u00a0 Also, one of the funniest interviews I&#8217;ve ever seen was with Molly Shannon, who commented that for the first time since she&#8217;d been on the show, she finally had her parents in the audience that night &#8211; and they did 5 minutes of ball jokes.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a &#8220;Hi Dad,&#8221; for you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ben and Jerry&#8217;s is, I&#8217;m sure, lapping up this controversy &#8211; nothing sells like news, and nothing makes news like setting some big Schweddy balls on the table after dinner.\u00a0 Gosh, I can&#8217;t wait to get my mouth around some Schweddy Balls myself!<\/p>\n<p>So come on, folks &#8211; Ben and Jerry&#8217;s might need our help coming up with some more names.\u00a0 Carmel Sutra didn&#8217;t get boycotted by the MASBIC folks, presumably because the joke went over their heads &#8211; I wouldn&#8217;t expect someone who gets all worked up over a few glistening, oily, Schweddy Balls to have heard of the Kama Sutra.\u00a0 And you know, Hubby&#8217;s Chubby &#8211; no double scoop of entendre there!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How about Tiger&#8217;s Wood &#8211; half vanilla, half chocolate, with long hard crunchy sticks of chocolate cookie and swirls of, well, yeah, don&#8217;t go there.\u00a0 Or The Appalachian Trail &#8211; with Brazil nuts!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And if you like chocolate, you&#8217;ll love Two Girls One Cone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That a hodgepodge of humorless harridans would jump up and form MASBIC &#8211; Mother&#8217;s Against Schweddy Ball Ice Cream &#8211; is lovely.  The far right wingnuts now jumping to protect little Johnny from finding out that he not only has a pair, but that his daddy did, too &#8211; regardless of whether or not Daddy has any now, after having been married to Mommy for a while &#8211; well, all I can say is &#8220;Ginger, get the popcorn&#8221; because this should be fun to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}