Osler's Razor

I seem to remember something about Vince, the Sham-Wow Guy, running a fraudulent scheme out of his house in Gatesville that dealt with sales of Sham-Wows to the nearby women's prison.

The inmates were probably getting sick of that commercial as much as the rest of us.
 

Oh yeah, that was it...
 

They have them at Walgreens now...near the check out. I love that dude's accent. Strangely soothing to me.
 

BREAKING NEWS: The Summumians lose at the Supreme Court. All hail the Summumians.
 

And I was all ready to move to that pyramid in Utah...
 

Sham-Wow does not sleep, it waits.
 

Sham-Wow does not sleep, it waits.
 

What makes the Sham-wow special? I have never seen the info-mercial - those channels are BLOCKED on our TV.
They have sold shammie's for drying your high-end vehicles for years and we have used a variety of shammie at swim meets in lieu of big bulky, wet, towels for years. Sorry, I don't get it. This is not a new product.

Maybe the Summumians can find a special use for them.
 

Fun fact: the shamwow guy, Vince Offer, was a low-level member of Scientology who was essentially duped out of a bunch of money. He made a film, the name of which I can't remember, and is using all the revenues from the film to sue the Church of Scientology. After he lost all his money to them, he became a trade show pitchman for a knife company or something similar, and found that he was really good at it, which eventually led him to recording the ShamWow and SlapChop commercials. He still travels all over the country, doing trade shows, trying to sell his film, and making money to sue Scientology. So yeah, there's more to him than meets the eye.

The More You Know (tm)
 

What's so special about a towel? I don't remember exactly, but Douglas Adams devoted a chapter or so to why you should always have a towel with you in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
 

Vince Offer is clearly a hoopy frood who knows where his ShamWow is.
 

Today's class featured a seven-person dynamic entry and assault on Henry Wright's personal space.
 

Vince is amazing . . . I love the "made in Germany; you know, the Germans make good stuff" line. And "Beware of Imitators!"

I would almost buy one . . .

So how did you use Sham-Wow in class? For those of us not privileged to be there . . .
 

Vince is amazing . . . I love the "made in Germany; you know, the Germans make good stuff" line. And "Beware of Imitators!"

I would almost buy one . . .

So how did you use Sham-Wow in class? For those of us not privileged to be there . . .
 

You know, Justin T., making a joke out of a footnote from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is going to be irrelevant to almost everybody and nobody will get it except maybe complete and utter geeks.

In other words, I got it.