Now Playing at Reason.tv: Where's Sock Puppet's Bailout?

November 30, 2008

 

The great, unlamented mascot of Pets.com and the tech bubble, Sock Puppet, comes to Congress with a paw out for taxpayer money and inadvertently suggests a way forward through the current moment that doesn't involve massive giveaways.

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Comments

|11.26.08 @ 10:31AM|#

wtf?

|11.26.08 @ 10:36AM|#

I can't see that puppet without thinking about his interlude with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

Seer|11.26.08 @ 10:52AM|#

I remember sock puppet.

ed|11.26.08 @ 10:53AM|#

Barney Frank: Do you have a last comment?

Sock Puppet: Yes I do, you complicit cocksucker.

(sigh) If only reason's puppet had some balls.

Mr. Hat|11.26.08 @ 12:55PM|#

Yeah, what about the bailout for alter-egos of gay 3rd grade teachers?

|11.26.08 @ 3:29PM|#

*Mr. Slave opens his IRA statement.*

Jesus Christ!

|11.26.08 @ 10:50PM|#

Gisele's last name is not pronounced "boon". A linguist would be better at explaining the nuances of a rounded vowel, but "bin" or "bn" is a sufficient approximation. If you wanted to pronounce her first name properly, it's actually a long "e" (Giseli) at the end but she's doesn't mind the anglicized version*. Mispronouncing the last name however, is just rude and more than a little ignorant.

*But you're still better off getting in the habit of pronouncing it right. Other Brazilian hotties like Caroline (rhymes with weenie) Trentini (also rhymes with weenie) aren't so forgiving as Gisele and prefer their first names be pronounced properly.

Cactus|11.27.08 @ 12:35AM|#

If anyone needs a bailout it is Sifl and Olly.

Chester for President 2012! He's a wanderer, a rebel. He's balls out. You got it?

|11.27.08 @ 3:45AM|#

Maybe instead of throwing a few billion at a sock puppet, Congress could consider one of the options on the list of the Top 10 Better Ways to Use the Bailout Money.

Hell, they might even learn something.

|11.27.08 @ 5:44AM|#

You probably could have gotten Michael Ian Black to reprise the role. He's big into the internet.

|11.27.08 @ 5:59PM|#

I could have sworn that I saw that puppet in a commercial for car loans recently.

|11.28.08 @ 3:54PM|#

You probably could have gotten Michael Ian Black to reprise the role. He's big into the internet.

Yeah, but I'm not so big into Michael Ian Black.

a name before submitting the f|11.28.08 @ 4:50PM|#

Shhhh... Don't give those congress types any ideas about bailing out Pets.com.

I, Kahn O\'Clast|11.28.08 @ 5:06PM|#

That puppet is employed as spokespuppet for Bar None, a firm that will lend regardless of credit for the purchase of a car. That puppet must be a first indicator of a very bad business model.

During the bubble I bought one of them ... it remains in the original packaging. Certainly a better bet that the pets.com stock.

|11.28.08 @ 7:22PM|#

Very cleaver! Hits the nail on the head

Xmas|11.30.08 @ 8:27PM|#

Sifl and Ollie...

Men ahead of their time. I should have bought these Pirate Cripplers before my boat trip to East Coast of Africa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owouynBXC4g&feature=related