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Odd name for a fragrance

Christmas in New York.

The scent is described as a combination of egg nog, roasting chestnuts and apples. 

Where you gonna dab that?

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Luxury brand cakes

Another notable establishment on the North Shore (of Massachusetts), is Cakes for Occasions in Danvers.

One of the bakery's many specialties is a line of designer handbag cakes. Here are three examples.

The Chanel:

 

The Louis Vuitton:

The Kate Spade:

Last November, Cakes for Occasions made the perfect confections for the occasion -- cookies featuring images of Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.

I'm still kicking myself for not having found the time to get some these for Gary's and my election night party.

Celebrity Saturday: Jessica Simpson gives her newest fragrance a stripper name

I've underestimated Jessica Simpson yet again.

I didn't think there could be a worse fragrance name than Fancy.

But Jessica is full of surprises and not all of them are fashion-related.

Now she's gone and introduced Fancy Love.

Questionable brand names

I say they're questionable. The Consumerist refers to this list as 7 Restaurant Dishes That Are Too Embarrassing To Order By Name:

1. Chili's Quesadilla Explosion Salad

2. Applebee's Chicken Parmesan Tanglers

3. Cheesecake Factory's Weight Management Asian Chicken Salad

4. P.F. Chang's Hot Fish

5. Cracker Barrel's Uncle Herchel's Favorite

6. Friendly's Super Sizzlin Sausage Sunrise

7. Outback Steakhouse's Chocolate Thunder From Down Under

I'd like to add to the list...

8. Denny's Moons Over My Hammy (my nephew Sean's favorite when he was a child)

The price tag for syfy.com

Here's a little piece of advertising trivia you can throw out at Sunday's barbecue to amaze and delight your friends (assuming your friends are already drunk and easily amazed and delighted).

In preparation for changing it's name from SciFi to Syfy, the cable TV channel discovered that the domain syfy.com already belonged to someone else. So SciFi bought syfy.com. Guess how much they paid for it?

$250,000.

By the way, if any cable channels want to change their name to pzrservices, let's talk.

CLICK HERE to read more about SciFi's change to Syfy.

Source: AdFreak

SciFi Channel jumped the shark. Again.

I used to love SciFi Channel.

Then the heads of the channel decided it needed "broader appeal." Apparently, they wanted to expand SciFi's demographic to include people who like to watch TV programming that sucks.

Straight-to-video is no longer the bottom of the entertainment barrel.

Like that wasn't bad enough, they just changed SciFi's spelling to Syfy to better reflect the channel's much lower standards broader appeal.

I'm glad Joel isn't around to see this.

A brand name that could only come from someone who's never changed a baby

Fluffy's having a Green Appletini and Tiger wants a beer

I have to buy stupidly expensive cat food because one of our cats has a "sensitive stomach." And only PetSmart carries giant bags of the cat food that prevents our Floyd from experiencing "stomach distress."

This week, I discovered that PetSmart is celebrating its birthday. Not its anniversary but its birthday. And they're giving out goodie bags. This is one of the things that was in the goodie bag.

Of course, I'm referring to the bag of Friskies Party Mix.

PARTY MIX.

For cats. 

They named a cat snack after a really yummy people snack.

Normally, I would be appalled. But I really love Chex Party Mix so I think it's kind of funny that our cats now have their own Party Mix

Except Floyd. He can't have any or he'll get explosive "stomach distress."

Happy Ham is sad

Source: JCO

Our president is finger-lickin' good

Frozen food from Germany:

Source: Jezebel 

Husky? Husky is old technology.

Power Pants with Fit-Forever Stealth.

These are steel-belted pants for men of substance. Men for whom no ordinary pants will do. Big Guys who deserve initial caps and pant technology originally developed to protect Special Forces fighting in Iraq.

I'm sort of in awe of whoever came up with the brand-name Power Pants with Fit-Forever Stealth for plus-size pants for men. Too bad everything else about this ad sucks.

Did Charlton Heston know about these?

Doritos is people!

Source: Play Us Out via Small Bits & Pieces

Great product with a name that . . . well . . . you know . . .

It's an Italian combination sink/washing machine. Perfect for small apartments.

But look at the brand name. It's not just me, is it?

Source: SwissMiss