[from Daily Progress]
Oh my God, you guys, they found it. Remember the hot dog mascot that went missing from Earlysville’s All Good Groceries back in April? I don’t either. But everybody else does! The good news, really, is that it has been recovered. And not a moment too soon, it’s almost lunchtime. Let’s all celebrate by going to Hamdinger’s for my 4th time this week.
[photo: Megan Lovett, DP]
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Tagged as: hot dogs, omfg you guys
this is such a better written article than the DP’s.
god, that photo is stupid.
Is this really the only post tagged as “omfg you guys”?
omfg!
God Damn that hot dog thing is so scary. I’m glad I’m 37 and not 7 cause that would really freak me out. I went to Circus Circus in Las Vegas a few years ago and they have clowns all over that joint and man it freaked me out!
Back in the eighties, I did circus circus on two ample hits of gel. The trick is to get a bunch of rolls of nickels, and plant oneself in front of a nickel slot machine, and let the spectacle unfold. I truly believe one could be foaming at the mouth and as long as you are pumping some sort of coins into a slot, people will leave you alone (and occasionally bring you tang screwdrivers). That night brought a new literal meaning to the phrase “cant sleep, clowns will eat me’.
In college, I was good friends with a fellow who grew up in LV, and worked at circus circus as a high school job. He was befriended by one of the floor clowns (lets call him Sterno). They would eat lunch together, etc… The thing that was odd was Sterno only knew my friend when he was in his clown gear. After he changed to street clothes, he acted as they had never met. Creepy old clowns.
@5 that has nothing to do with hot dogs. omfg.
You want creepy? How about those old hags that play the slots dressed in bathrobe and slippers, with rollers in their hair, and a Menthol Doral 100 hanging out of their mouths? That’s creepy, bro.
Thank G they finally found this thing. Now I can sleep at night. Both b/c it’s a relief, and I was spending a lot of my night time hours hunting for this thing. God bless the heroes that found this terrifying giant hot dog. Anyone have any experience with organizing parades?
that has nothing to do with hot dogs. omfg.
And neither did that. Or this.
he’s right. we’re really getting off track here.
hot dog statues, people. hot dog statues.
Thanks for bringing it back to plaster weiners, parles. You win the prize.
I question a lot of things about this incident. First, why do business owners love over sized fiberglass statues so much? all the paul bunyans of the world are creepy. Second, what jackass steals it, buries it, breaks off its little arms and removes one of the shoelaces? Then again, I happen to know a lot of villains were out and about and very drunk on Wednesday April 9….
Um ,I want the freaking breaking news on when this happened, who found it, what happened to its arms. Get me some deets, people!
maybe it was a rogue vegetarian posse, angry at the hotdog for existing and even more for his seeming desire to want to eat himself.
@12 -re drunk Cvillains - why should Wednesday April 9 be any different?
a) wednesday is cafeteria dance fest
b) the 9th was a villain birthday
c) a hot dog got attacked
I see this as a confluence of events that could add up.
/not really
Was anyone really “missing” this? Man, you could cause some severe trouble in that thing.
@8: “terrifying giant hot dog”
you ain’t seen nothing yet.
@4,5 fear & loathing in las vegas is such a fabulous movie, johnny depp is still hot even with that bald spot.
@ 19 If there was an academy award for best cinematic representation of a hallucination, that movie would be in the top three.
@20 yeah, i think i first saw it soon after my first trip, & it kind of freaked me out.
Great article in the DP today (Jebus, never thought I’d say THAT) on the missing wiener. The headline read “Arrest Made in Hotdog’s Abduction.” The following line caught my eye:
“they discovered he had lost his arms, a shoelace and his bottles of ketchup and mustard, with which he was slathering himself so he could appear more delicious.” Trying to make himself appear more delicious? Seriously, that sounds like a desperate and possibly suicidal hotdog. Hope they get his arms and condiments back (but not the shoelace), and also get him the help he needs.
@22 I also read the freaky fiberglass DP article and found the “slathering himself so he could appear more delicious” statement to be very Hustleresque…. Seriously DP, I must question your editor’s journalistic abilities when a story reporting that a stolen weiner has been slathered to appear more delicious hits the press.
For DP to be enjoyed both wieners must be slathered.
newsflash….. DP requires slathering