MoPod Show 2.0 - Gay Comedy Podcast

Need a reason to stay away from fast food?  Well, the next time you find yourself putting the turn signal on to pull into a Burger King, just visualize this.

Burger King Corp. said Tuesday it has parted ways with an employee who was recorded taking a soapy bath in the restaurant’s utility sink in a Xenia, Ohio Burger King. The nearly four-minute video, which was posted Thursday on MySpace.com, shows the unidentified employee taking the bath to celebrate his birthday.

The worker, who refers to himself as “Mr. Unstable,” appears to be naked.

Burger King spokeswoman Denise Wilson said two employees involved in the incident were fired and another quit. She declined to identify the employees or say whether the man who took the bath quit or was fired.

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Recently there have been a couple of interesting items in the news regarding wrestlers. Not professional wrestlers, but high school and college wrestlers. These hyper-masculine sports have been “rocked” by news that some of their own have posed for gay porn (NSFW: exhibit 1 and exhibit 2) (and by most accounts have done a particularly good job of it). And now we received news about another wrestler who allegedly exposed and placed his genitals in a pinned wrestler’s mouth.

A colleague and I were talking about the first incident involving college wrestlers posing nude and doing solo masturbation video scenes for the web. At first she seemed really surprised that these guys would do something like that. Aside from the questionable judgment, I assured her that posing nude was not even close to the gayest thing they had ever done. I reminded her that wrestlers obsess about their weight, wear ridiculously tight clothing, and explore each other’s nooks and crannies while rolling around together all hot and sweaty.

As far as the second incident goes, it sounds like someone has some psycho-sexual and emotional issues to work out. If the allegations are true, it was highly inappropriate for a high school wrestling practice. Now in a few years if he wants to re-enact that scene at say IML, I’m sure he’ll find some willing takers.

Ummm…speaking for myself, but I’m SURE I’m not alone here, I say an unequivocal NO.  If anything, Michael Phelps should be showing more skin.  His poor legs have hardly received the attention (let alone the light) that they deserve.

After all, they did play an important part in his victories.    Apparently there are some in the media and puritanical political circles that feel like the waistband on his swimming suit has crept dangerously close to his pubic region.   Are you kidding me?! If your pubic region looks like his, you have earned the right (not to mention gold medals) to show it off.

Perhaps each time he wins, the trunks will sink lower and we’ll get a little better glimpse into Michael’s southland.  And maybe his teammates will step up the man on man grabbing.  Wouldn’t it be great if/when Michael wins his 8th gold medal, he rips off his swimming trunks and does a victory lap?  They do it in soccer don’t they?  Okay, that is shirts…but he isn’t WEARING a shirt is he?   Don’t screw with my fantasy.

Spain’s Olympic basketball team posed for an advertisement prior to the Games which appears to show all its players slanting their eyes, a move that could offend its Olympic hosts in Beijing. The ads, for a Spanish courier company, appeared in the Spanish-language newspaper La Marca.

As the uproar over the picture has grown today, more information about the advertising shot has come to light. The New York Times reports that Spain’s basketball team is sponsored by Li-Ning Footwear, a Chinese company founded by Li Ning, the final torchbearer who was hoisted along the top of Beijing National Stadium during the Olympic Opening Ceremony finale. The ad reportedly references that the Li-Ning Advertising representative asked the team to slant their eyes to appear more ‘Chinese’.

It’s baffling that nobody involved in the picture production from the Chinese firm considered that this ad would be looked at negatively. The team drew the line on endorsing the caption that was to be attached to the pic.

“Ching, Ching, Chinaman, sitting on a rail. Along comes a white man and cuts off his tail.”

Interestingly, the Spanish basketball team took on China tonight, winning 85-75 in overtime.

I’ve become insanely dependent on spell check the past decade or so. I’m not a bad speller, but sometimes in the flow of things my fingers go faster than my brain and I transpose a letter here or there. Sometimes I may even exchange one homophone for another. (heh heh…homophone…heh) Most of the time it doesn’t matter. I just run spell check or in the case of most of my writing it is in informal settings where it isn’t noticed or doesn’t matter. But there are sometimes when there IS no spell check and it DOES matter. For example, if you are a tatoo artist.  I encourage you to ask your tatoo artist for a writing sample before they load up their ink.

My friend Djave pointed out a gallery of pictures to me last week that is as amazing as it is tragic. Not only are there some really unfortunate misspellings, but there are also some people who haven’t learned that photographs rarely translate into tatoos very well. The picture above, I think you will agree, is downright horrifying

See the full gallery of grammatical, spelling, and photographical horrors here.

You walk into a bar and there they are, big burly masculine men. Arms and buns of steel.  You get a  sense that they are able to communicate in grunts and sniffs and people seem to tread lightly around them.  And then it happens… the music starts to play.  Suddenly he-man becomes a twisting, twirling, dancing machine!  He transcends gender and gravity to become:  Boba-Flashdance!

When Willow Cathiter and I go to the gym we sometimes pop into the sauna to 1: relax potentially sore muscles 2: mentally will fat deposits to melt  and 3: to ogle at the occassional hottie.  If we were super heros in a sauna comic our nemisis would be “Yellow Crocs” a particularly gross troll who stalks and preys on innocent international students who don’t have a great command of the culture or the language.  He’s pretty icky AND wears yellow crocs, which we think might be some kind of fetish reference, but we’ll have to defer that question to any experts out there.    What is interesting about Yellow Crocs is that his workout last all of 3 minutes and his sauna experience lasts for an hour.  We always assumed he was just in cruise mode, but perhaps there is another explanation.

Maybe he was preparing for the International Sauna Championships?

Finland held onto its reign in 2008 Sauna World Championships by sitting in a piping hot sauna for longer than competitors from Belarus and Belgium.  Bjarne Hermansson who won the male championship stayed in a sauna heated to 110 decrees Celsius (230 Fahrenheit) for 18 minutes and 15 seconds.

“It feels wonderful, it is a dream come true,” said Hermansson, his red hot skin covered with sweat.

Hermansson, who has attended the competition every year, said he had trained for it by going to a really hot sauna for more than 30 years.  But he admitted reaching his dream had not been easy. “It was slightly more pain than pleasure,” he said.

This video is a part of a pretty substantial set of youtube videos featuring the animatronic robots formerly of “ShowBiz Pizza” restaurants.I totally remember going to these restaurants as a kid and LOVING the robot animal music shows.  I believe their band was called “Rock a Fire Explosion”.  Their rock show was pretty tame, but now things have changed as people are buying them up and reprogramming them with modern and racy hits such as this.  I also recommend  “4 Minutes” and” Pop Drop and Lock It”.  Its as if these trapped animals have suddenly rebelled and found their rock and roll voices.

I remembered a word used on a game show and decided I would check it out on Google because my Microsoft spell checker was unable to get its tits around the word ‘pabble’ properly. The word IS ‘pabble’, it’s a real word and I remembered it. At least that’s what I believed until several of the worlds most frequently used spell checkers started fucking with my brain and telling me they had never heard of it.

Of all the dictionaries, of all the languages in the world that I frequently rely on, are the dictionaries supplied by Google and Microsoft.  I bet you do too, huh? You get stuck for how to spell a word and you type in to MS Word and “Hey Presto!” MS Word just pumps out your correctly spelled word after you spell check it.

Well not always.  Was I frustrated when even Google couldn’t find the word ‘pabble’?  Yes I was. If Microsoft fails you think, well that’s par for the course. When Google fails, you think OK, there is no commercial reason to put a page ranking on the word ‘pabble’, so it is not going to show up. What do you do when Google fails? When all else fails, go to Wikipedia!

Wiki is like an internet commando on a search and rescue mission! If your information has been hijacked and kept captive some where, Wiki sharpens its bayonet, scouts the territory out and skewers it for you! Wiki is to words what a big game hunter is frightened starving carnivorous tigers, or so I thought.

The trouble was even Wikipedia had no reference to ‘pabble’.

What was I going to do? My dear word pabble needed rescuing; I was the man that was going to do it!

Stephen Fry, being the self acclaimed, publicly proclaimed queer beacon of intellectuality and hilarity immediately came to mind. The very brainy and very gay Stephen Fry hosts a fun reverse brainy game show called ‘Qi’ on the BBC. Qi stands for Quite Interesting and the web site is www.qi.com.  I posed the question on a forum on Qi, and eventually some one on there had access to the Oxford English Dictionary online (usually costs about 10 dollars per month to use) and they found a reliable reference for me to use in Wikipedia!

I promptly marched right back to www.Wikipedia.org, joined the site as a registered contributor and put pabble in to the pages of web history at last!

Well, not quite.

They said that pabble was not “quite interesting” enough to keep in the encyclopaedia BUT (Hurrah!) they said it would be given a nice home at the next door neighbour’s house, otherwise known as Wiktionary!

Pabble actually means the noise that boiling liquids make, say like porridge bubbling on the stove!

Listen to Stephen Fry’s podgram’s on iTunes under comedy. If you can download Qi from on the BBC iPlayer, its worth it because it’s great. Mr Fry may be nerdy and funny but not as nerdy as Skip and Drew on www.gayscifinerds.co.uk.  Skip and Drew Love the Mopodshow, we stay moist between episodes!

This is the “not so shorty” show.  With the intent of a short show, we still managed to ramble on forever.  This week we discuss Gina’s furniture needs, Gina’s move, Ruphus’s first crush, and whether or not Peasha may have gotten syphilis from Ruphus’s sofa.  Also, we pose the question:  Is Ruphus’s house powered by wind power or is there a retarded person on his roof spinning their arms?  You decide.  Either way, somehow that means our server is green.  Maybe Ruphus has the energy plan that the nation has been hoping to find!