Comments on: The revenge of Eugene the toaster

By: Johnny Truant

Johnny Truant — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:59:41 +0000

Yes, but ask your husband to be honest: wasn’t he a bit emasculated to offer the microwave a Lean Cuisine? I find it hard to place too much blame on the appliance. You know it was like, “What the fuck is this?”

By: Lesley

Lesley — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:09:51 +0000

I’m very sorry about your toaster dilemma. I would laugh, but I know how serious kitchen appliance relationships can be. Currently my microwave is very mad at my husband. The other night he tried cooking a bag of popcorn, and it would never pop, just burn the hell out of the popcorn bag. He did this four times with no success. Then a couple days ago he cooked a lean cuisine pizza, and it burned half of it so hard that you couldn’t even bite into it. The crust was black.

I cook things all the time with no problem, but I think because he cursed the microwave it is now mad at him and burns all of his food. Plus our whole house smelled like burned hair/popcorn and it was disgusting.

By: Johnny Truant

Johnny Truant — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:07:31 +0000

You know, some toasters just go bad. We need to face it. Should it besmirch the image of all toasters? Probably not. But I don’t think I have to tell you not to go down to monster puppet town after dark. Elmo turned out okay, but his brothers? Jesus.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:40:41 +0000

Please, I beg of you – for your sanity. You must see the Brave Little Toaster series of dvd’s: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092695/

I do they hope settle down your toaster paranoia, at least somewhat, and bring back your undeniable love for the small appliance.

In seriousness, I have seen almost all of them. My son had a ‘thing’ for the series when he was around 4 yo. Which now makes me a little… ummm… concerned after readng ths post;-) Hoping it was just a phase…

By: Trish/Astrogirl426

Trish/Astrogirl426 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:43:51 +0000

Fucking amateurs.

By: Johnny Truant

Johnny Truant — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:02:35 +0000

Do you know nothing about evil sentient toasters? Jesus.

By: unfinished rambler

unfinished rambler — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:15:08 +0000

Call me an asshat or something else which I know you will, but why don’t you just unplug the fucker?

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:11:23 +0000

If your toaster was once owned by Mickey Rourke, chances are it’s either actually a Chihuahua or might be an alcoholic. Or is an alcoholic Chihuahua, which explains that uniformly terrible Beverly Hills Chihuahua movie that came out last year.

I have also had way too much coffee this morning.

By: Trish/Astrogirl426

Trish/Astrogirl426 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:27:47 +0000

If you’re seriously interested in doing a wiki, let me know – I have some experience setting them up. For real. Yes, I’m a girl.

By: Johnny Truant

Johnny Truant — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:24:30 +0000

@John:
#2: I’ve thought of that. I would totally be nervous, and I know my mother didn’t totally believe it. But ultimately, she let me go and trusted me, and I’d probably ultimately do the same. “Toaster appreciation” CANNOT be a real thing, I would think.
#3: I think Facebook would be hard, and it would require everyone to cross two media… this site and FB. I’d like to do it here if possible, but my call to action so far wasn’t very strong (need to make a regular post), and I’m not sure how. A forum would work, but forums die and are embarrassing if nobody uses them regularly. Maybe some sort of wiki. Do you know anything about them?

@Newt: WTF? That’s the most fucked up way to use a toaster I’ve ever heard of. But intriguing.

@Trish: MAW rule all.

@Elvis: Congratulations on being the first person to get the reference! I imagine a lot of people don’t realize it’s not my real name. And you’re thinking too much. I chose the name because I like the book. There’s nothing more to it. And yes, that book is hard as hell to read. But I enjoy a challenge.

@N.C.: Hmm… Wikipedia seems to think it’s either (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/weirdoes ), but who knows what to think of Wikipedia given all of the weirdoes that hang out there.