Monday, March 03, 2008

Overspecialization.

Has anyone else seen that cute little Weird Al movie, UHF? Remember the television commercial for the store called "Spatula City"? Am I the only one who thinks of that every time I drive past a Cartridge World or a Batteries Plus?
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Anonymous said...

Hello, this is Sy Greenblum, president of Spatula City.
I liked their spatulas so much, I bought the company.

5:47 AM, March 03, 2008
Jay G said...

Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!

UHF. Right up there with "Quick Change" in the category of "odd movies few others have seen but I can recite from memory"...

6:04 AM, March 03, 2008
AnarchAngel said...

love my mop.

6:08 AM, March 03, 2008
Draven said...

Tam,

Here in L.A. (well, the Valley, in Van Nuys, technically...) there's a store called 'Box City' that gives me the same thought.

6:12 AM, March 03, 2008
J. Sullivan said...

Conan the Librarian
Gandhi II! No more Mr. Passive Resistence!
Raoul's Wild Kingdom

I loooove that movie. I still watch it all the time.

7:38 AM, March 03, 2008
Dr. StrangeGun said...

...Cartridge World?

8:08 AM, March 03, 2008
Anonymous said...

"Specialization is for insects."


Where'd all the effin bugs come from?

8:19 AM, March 03, 2008
Anonymous said...

Where I can find this Cartridge World? Do they have good deals on primers?

8:30 AM, March 03, 2008
Anonymous said...

OOOOOHHHHHHHH........ Red snapper. Veeeeeerrrrrry tasty.

9:19 AM, March 03, 2008
Justin Buist said...

...Cartridge World?

It's not what you think, Dr. Strangegun. The name throws me off every time I drive by one too.

Printer and copy machine toner cartridges.

9:22 AM, March 03, 2008
Anonymous said...

Oh, yeah, Cartridge World - first time I saw that, I thought: "Sweet! Wonder if they have .32-20?" Sigh, it was not to be.

And I wore out the UHF soundtrack too.

9:55 AM, March 03, 2008
Anonymous said...

UHF! I love that movie, rank that up there what the two Hot Shots movies and Airplane.
Weird Al is one singer that can act!

10:38 AM, March 03, 2008
Anonymous said...

Glad to see I'm not the only one to think that Cartridge World stocked actual cartridges. Sadly, once again I was disappointed to find just another printer supply shop.

1:42 PM, March 03, 2008
Tango Juliet said...

The home version of "Wheel of Fish" stinks.

I feel so stupid!

2:33 PM, March 03, 2008
Anonymous said...

"Where can you find name brand spatulas at a fraction of the cost?"

*t'hee*

But regarding specialization, I thought that about tire stores when they first showed up and they seem to be doing ok. . . so why not. . .

6:22 PM, March 03, 2008
Anonymous said...

I don't know of any tire stores that won't do brakes, replace belts, oil/filter or any other routine service for your car if you ask them..... it's not like they don't want your money...

7:27 PM, March 03, 2008
Anonymous said...

I was VERY happy the first time I spotted a Cartridge World...and VERY disappointed when I realized that it wasn't the kind of cartridges I had expected. For a brief moment, though, hope for America's future filled my heart.

7:31 PM, March 03, 2008
Joseph said...

Every - and I do mean every - time I grab a spatula from the drawer the little jingle, "We sell spatulas...and that's all!" zings across my brain.

That, and "Supplies!"

8:19 PM, March 03, 2008
Dioscuri said...

Ha, UHF. Such an awesome movie. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who hums that tune when spatulating things.

10:50 PM, March 03, 2008
Anonymous said...

Nothing says "I love you" like a spatula.

And on that note, I'm off to have a drink and a twinkie weiner sandwich.

10:55 PM, March 03, 2008
Anonymous said...

In high school (looong before UHF), my best friend and I swore that when we were old enough, we would open a store that only sold Scotch tape and the little things that screw on the end of antennas.

11:38 PM, March 03, 2008
Cybrludite said...

"Hey, kids! Did you know poodles can fly?"

"Badgers? We don' need no steekin' badgers!"

1:39 AM, March 04, 2008

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