‘Tis the season for [INSERT PRODUCT NAME]
Febreze. ‘Tis the season for Febreze. Despite the low quality of this photo, the set, the costume, the tree and the entire concept that lies behind the scene, this is a genuine and official festive image sent out by Proctor & Gamble.
It is nice to end 2009 on a low.
Thanks for sticking with all this nonsense for another year, everyone. We might start doing all this again in a week or so, unless we have any better ideas for new blogs to do instead over Christmas. Morale on the Extra-Last newsdesk is not great.
ABOUT:
“Freshness: The Gift That Keeps On Giving. Santa has been working hard this holiday season, and his suit has been working overtime, too. This year, Febreze gifted active Santas in the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas (AORBS) with a bottle of Febreze Fabric Refresher to help them keep those hard-to-wash Santa suits festive and fresh!”
filed in PROMOTIONAL CHRISTMAS on Dec.24, 2009
December 24th, 2009 on 4:54 pm
Well yes the executives are 100% better, with 80% of that coming from the tweets.
Nice of you to dress as santa for the last photo of the year, though.
December 24th, 2009 on 7:29 pm
Thanks for all the nonsense, Idiot!
December 24th, 2009 on 9:10 pm
Aww, you gotta keep doing IdiotToys.
It’s been consistantly funny, unlike poor old UK:R which had that that depressing bleak period
SexyExecs is rather good too though, just keep being funny for free please.
December 24th, 2009 on 10:03 pm
Yes. Idiots toys, sorry Extra-Last, must not die. Who else would I bloody send battery pictures to if it weren’t for this place? I’d possibly go as far as saying it’s my favourite of the 3 sites, simply because you never know what’s coming up next. Could be teclast, could be batteries, could be a very disturbing looking person in a santa outfit.
Anyway, Happy Crimbo in 2 hours time to anyone remotely bothered and “Ha Bumhugs” to anyone not. I’ve just finished the wrapping so time to down half a bottle of port and a bucketload of assorted snacks.
December 24th, 2009 on 10:28 pm
I have two Star Trek toys with some Hi-Watt batteries in. Have you done Hi-Watts, yet? I don’t know because I hate the battery updates.
I was going to send them in anyway, with a crap joke about Starfleet and the recession but if you’re teetering on the brink I’m worried it might kill the site off. And then where am I going to get my Teclast updates from?
Would some Hi-Watts cheer you up or make you want to die?
December 25th, 2009 on 9:20 am
Well, I know I’d like to see them.
Don’t know if I’ve got any batteries, kids are still asleep so no presents open yet…
December 25th, 2009 on 9:34 am
harvesting the earth blog.
December 26th, 2009 on 2:52 pm
“Animals in human clothes” blog for 2010 please.
December 26th, 2009 on 4:37 pm
Lord knows we could all use a week off after Christmas. Take a little time for yourself and recharge your weird, personal, off-brand batteries. Provided, of course, that they are rechargable. NEVER ATTEMPT TO RECHARGE A NON-RECHARGABLE BATTERY!
Plus, even though we find many of your posts here to be jocular, titillating and sometimes informative, I think most of us are even more entertained by the comments added to your posts. So, I mean, it’s like you’re only doing maybe a third of the work around here anyway. And I don’t think you’d want to be responsible for putting the rest of us out of work.
December 26th, 2009 on 7:05 pm
Putting the readers out of work?
How is Phorenzik doing these days?
December 26th, 2009 on 8:24 pm
I offer finest festive big-ups for the staff of Extra Last towers. They may not always feel themselves on the cutting edge, sometimes perhaps when they they post something that only gets a couple of comments in two weeks they wonder what the point of it all is, but the point is that there is no finer, freer or more consistent provision of cynical, ousider-nerdish and generally hard to explain to non-readers comedy on the interweb. I’m sure other readers agree and that must be, what, 300 people? 300 blokes?
It might be the festive brandy talking but it’s not the fault of the Extra Last Towers staff if the rest of the fucking world isn’t up to speed vis-a-vis what’s funny. They like Twitter and Wii and X-Factor; fuck ‘em. Keep going! If you’re persinsent enought the world may eventually COME TO YOU!
Thanks for 2009. Havea happy new year, Idiot:( and all you other fine folk. Yes it’s the brandy
December 28th, 2009 on 12:27 am
Febfreze is great.
December 28th, 2009 on 4:07 am
2010 suggestions:
– People dressed as gadgets
– Bikini models holding gadgets
– Wood or Wouldn’t?
– This looks better underwater
Big reader of this blog. Truly cutting edge even the battery updates. Bring back the Motorola photos I say!
December 28th, 2009 on 11:26 am
I was thinking of doing something on special-interest magazines, then the wife pointed out that’s what Have I Got News For You? has been doing for over a decade.
That’s all I have left to offer – an idea subconsciously copied off the telly.
December 29th, 2009 on 11:46 am
aids porn blog.
December 29th, 2009 on 12:15 pm
Do more youtube videos. I thought they were good. I may be the only person who thought so, but I put that down to the wrong type of viewer.
There wasn’t much intellectual or cultural crossover between UK:R/Idiot Toys and the rest of the personality-free ‘network’.
December 29th, 2009 on 12:53 pm
Think a new blog would be a good idea. +1 on the YT vids also.
Is the sum total of your existence worth $0.02 per month (or $0.10 per month with the top banner), maybe time to think about doing something more productive with your life? Or at least making a blog with a higher CPM. Just a thought….
December 29th, 2009 on 2:51 pm
I’m a girl, and I like the battery updates. That probably puts me in a small and lonely venn diagram intersection.
December 29th, 2009 on 7:21 pm
Extra-Last must not die! It’s great, I check in everyday, even weekends when I know there won’t have been any updates. In fact that can be my suggestion for updating the blog in 2010, add updates on weekends – I’m sure you can write/copy n paste them in the week so that your precious spare time isn’t impinged upon.
December 29th, 2009 on 7:28 pm
Perhaps I’ll just chart my gradual mental and physical decline on this comments page for the next 30 years.
“Left knee aches a bit more this winter”
December 29th, 2009 on 7:45 pm
I believe there’s still the democratically selected increasingly explicit Asian pornography option to fall back on. Not that I would prefer such a thing over your daily hypochondria log.
Just please don’t make it a Youtube blog. If I wanted to see shitty Youtube movies, I’d go to – Youtube.
December 29th, 2009 on 9:09 pm
Train to become a paramedic purely to have something to put into a new blog.
A prostitution blog would be quicker to get off the ground and 2010 is less than a week away. Combined with the gradual decline aspect it could be a winner.
“Left testicle still aches, but the £13 makes up for it. Haven’t urinated for 10 hours out of fear.”
December 30th, 2009 on 5:34 am
PCL – excellent
December 30th, 2009 on 7:43 am
Eating Gadgets should be a new category. Just think of the massive number of pasta-making machine updates there could be.
December 30th, 2009 on 12:29 pm
The problem for me is I have literally no “interests” any more. All I like doing now is walking about in fields, and that’d make an even less interesting blog than one full of photos of mirrors with spiral designs around the edges.
December 30th, 2009 on 12:40 pm
Terence White did a lot of that, and his work is definitely more interesting than a blog full of photos of mirrors with spiral designs around the edges. While raising a Goshawk the old fashioned way might not entirely be up your alley, maybe some lesser creature is? Like a squirrel, or a brain-damaged crackwhore. No, wait, that’s PCL’s idea again.
December 30th, 2009 on 1:29 pm
See.
I told you we’re doing about two thirds of the work around here anyway. The site practically runs itself!
December 30th, 2009 on 3:04 pm
We don’t even need ‘Idiot :(‘! Let’s oust him in a bloody coup and then after a week of realising no members of the junta know his password, reinstate him in a pretend yet equally bloody coup.
How about a serious blog about nature? May not want to link back to here or UK:R, like how Mel Brooks’s name doesn’t appear in the credits for the Elephant Man.
“Saw a bird in a tree today. I don’t know the type of either the bird or the tree and it was cold and wet. :(”
Rescue hedgehogs or something.
December 30th, 2009 on 3:22 pm
Since everyone’s so BUSY today, can anyone see why there’s a massive mystery gap on UKR when looking at the site in Internet Explorer 8?
http://www.extralast.com/pics4/ukr-gap-mystery.jpg
December 30th, 2009 on 3:48 pm
I am busy. Just very good at not getting around to it.
I don’t know anything about webpages, but the mystery gap behaves like a link to this website. Something you probably know already.
December 31st, 2009 on 6:06 pm
I wasn’t busy but not around either. Around now and still not particularly busy but not much help either.
Looks fucked to me. Is it a big problem? I mean, who uses IE8? As long as it’s Lynx compatible I’d say you’re fine.
January 1st, 2010 on 5:11 am
Greetings Idiot :(,
The photo here shows three new categories by itself:
1) Beards–This allows real beards, and fake beards, both as one category,
2) Belts Which Do Not Look Like the Usual Crap,
3) Products of Stupid Advertising Directors.
Also, “Trees So Fake That they LOOK Fake”, might work.
Frankly, this is the ONLY place I have found, which makes fun of Real Life THINGS. No Karl Rove, celebrities, bad talk, or other dross.
Just things which are funny. One place along the bus trip to work was a house which looked like a face (NO photos, of course!!). Whoever lived there had put looking-to-the-right pupils in the “eye” windows, using paper the size of the windows.
I loved it, and still think about it. I could go there to see whether it is still there, but the trip sucks, and that was twenty years ago! [For those who want to know: San Pablo Avenue, between McDonald Avenue in Richmond, but before University in Berkeley.]
Google says Everett and Jones Barbeque is at San Pablo and University. Maybe I will go there. The bus ride—I live forty miles north—will take about three hours each way. E&J is worth the trip! [Well, what it was long ago, is worth the modern trip!]
Always remember the dicta “Funny is good” and “Keep on keepin’ on”. Oh, yeh: “Happy new year” and all that!
Sincerely,
Master David
January 1st, 2010 on 11:57 pm
Thanks. Always nice to encounter someone who can write that many words in a row. I haven’t done that many in a row for years now.