Comments on On The Horror of Those Lips!

Can't you just get a Blogspot or Livejournal for your inane little personal diatribes?

Non - I thought it was a great post, blog posts aren't mandated to be exclusively mind crushing revelations. Maybe you should get your own blog for the same reason.

I honestly have no fucking idea what you're talking about. Then again, I don't think we have DQs around here.

@1 Respect the Adrian, beyatch!

Here here!

I ABHORE those lips. My roommate and I cringe every time they start their palsy-dance on the screen.

Calling them 'tragic' nails it pretty well.

I've never seen the DQ lips, the benefit of not watching all that much TV, but they sound pretty creepy. The fast food mascot that I have seen and that creeps me out is the Burger King King. It's just this guy in this oversized plastic head running around in a robe but it really creeps me out. I think that it's because of the fact that the expression on the mask never changes, it's always set in a demented grin. The fact that the king never says anything and the weird caricature like aspect of the whole thing creeps me out in a way that Jack from Jack in the Box, which is after all a man wearing a giant ping pong ball on his head, doesn't.

"Dairy Queen" is my new nickname for you, Adrian.

I agree - the lips are horrible.

I have also seen a Dairy Queen ad that described their Blizzard ice cream desert as "Legendary". I know that advertisements exaggerate, but come on.

I've also seen a Dairy Queen ad that claimed that their hamburger was a kind of trophy that you deserve for picking their product.

It's like they're having a contest to see who can come up with the most outrageous and ridiculous claim.

Oh, Dear!

I don't know how to break this to you without you running down the street screaming jibberish, but here goes.

The voice coming out of the lips at the beginning of The Rocky Horror Picture Show is Richard O'brien - a MAN.

Also known as Riff-Raff and the man who wrote the music for the show.

Have a nice day!

gong, gong, gong

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

get dried out a bit Adrian

I think there is a DQ in Kent, and the shakes are good

@9: You beat me to it. I've been in a cast for years (I once even performed with the Seattle cast when they came to Portland and needed a Magenta) and it's definitely Richard O'Brien. However, in the actual play, it's supposed to be sung by the woman playing Magenta, and was supposed to be sung by that actress in the movie as well. The lips are hers, by the way.

All that aside, the Dairy Queen lips are in fact rather disturbing. They still don't bother me as much as the Burger King king, though.

"they sort of looked like a hepatic liver." really? all livers look hepatic. because they are.

howdy! welp, by golly, please explain this to me?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mpEGuNIcPdg

The worst one is the DQ lips practicing the word "tortilla". I can't stand that one. It's the worst. Far worse than the cannibal shrimp one.

14: Agreed, and the cannibal shrimp ad is pretty fucking horrible.

Still, the lips make me want to die. I had a dream I learned the lips had run away from Zach Braff's face.

This makes everything so much worse.

@13

Indeed. A woman in the trailer, but a man in the intro. Which in of itself is a subversion of the dominant paradigm.

What a horrible trailer. Less would have been more.

@6,

When those ads first started, I thought the only proper conclusion would be for the BK King to hold up a butcher knife and hack his victim to death. Several commercials later, I've become convinced that he's meant to be creepy, evidenced by the obvious nervousness/fear of the people he approaches -- up to the point where he presents them with a burger rather than a chain saw.

It's things like this that make me glad I don't have a television signal.

I don't really know what they look like, b ut are these them?

http://www.itanimates.com/projects.html?project=commercials

I have to change the channel every time those lips come on with that Tortilla, nailed it line. It is annoying and I used to like DQ when I was a kid but can't stand them now. They have truly lost something I liked about them.

I Fucking Love You Adrian Ryan - Always

Their advertising hasn't been for shit since they let their licensing of Dennis the Menace lapse.

Love.

that was long...

i prefer the lips over the eskimo i guess...natives as mascots always makes me feel uncomfortable

Rocky Horror Lips:

Yes the voice is Richard O'Brien but the
lips themselves are (Dame) Patricia Quinns (Magenta).

Oh no! 80's flashbacks.....

I wonder if Amy Kate Horn checked the I.P. addresses, how many of these little love notes are actually Adrian posting under different names.

yes, amy. please, do that, and inform us all how many of these "are me posting under different names". i'd be fascinated. i'm sure we all would. and, non? GO to HELL and FUCK a SHOE, you intolerable turd.

Oh, Non, Non, Non...you poor thing. So desperate to show the slog community you have a penis on the outside and not being an actual prick yourself you can't help but type something idiotic.
sigh!

you dumbass!!