>When I was really, really little… not a baby, maybe a toddler, but definitely able to talk and walk and make some sort of sense… I loved TV commercials. I lived for them. I watched the shows just to get to the commercials. I really loved the Rosemary Clooney Coronet paper towels commercial. (“Extra value is what you get,when you buy Coronet!”)
But I would sometimes get confused and mix them up.. singing a mash-up of jingles which both amused and horrified my mother. The one that stayed with me was the accidental mash-up of Long John Silver’s and Reese’s. You can watch each below after the jump and then learn about Franjamin Binklin.
Somehow I ended up combining the two into a sickening new food item “Long John Silver’s Peanut Butter Cups”… gross. Imagine a chocolaty exterior with a flaky, fishy center. BLECH!
More after the jump.
Long John Silver’s commercial (notice the appearance of Heather O’Rourke from Poltergeist)
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups commercial
But it wasn’t ONLY commercials that I somehow mixed up. I also managed to combine select historical figures into one super-mech-history-warrior.
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| Franjamin Binklin |
The poor victims of my childhood were Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln who, for whatever reason, were merged into Mister Franjamin Binklin.
I am sure that if Franjamin Binklin had existed he would have been a staunch supporter of all things America. And just maybe, through the combined powers of his two original, he would have invented the internet back in 1800.
I am also pretty sure that if either was alive at the same time as the other they would have been besties.
Tommy Karr 