Meet the Shamwow!

When I attend the Minnesota State Fair, I love to wander through the "varied industry building" or as I refer to it as "people peddling crap that doesn't deserve shelf-space at the As Seen on TV store at the Mall of America building". The brief headline on MSN stating "Meet the Next Great TV Pitchman" is what made me click to the story. The video, though, is what made my mind click.

I remember being oddly captivated, too, by this very same product (although with far less suave pitchmen and women) at the Great Minnesota Get-Together. I even thought about buying one because, hell, who's stupid enough to pass up an offer where you get not one, but TWO fucking wonder towels. But buy them at the state fair and they'll generously throw in a third and fourth cloth in convenient carry-along size. Oh, put your cash away folks because it gets better. Today ONLY with your purchase you get a giant miracle cloth that is capable of soaking up a whopping 55 gallons of light sweet crude oil. And for how much? How's about $19.95?!?

I walked away only because for watching the five minute demo, both my wife and I received a couple "samples" of the product.

My grand scheme was if we each spent about 20 minutes throughout the day watching a demonstration that we'd have enough samples to equal the size of one or maybe even two super rags. Needless to say, my plan failed and I bought a fried Snickers bar instead but the amaze-o-product lives on... complete with a jackass sporting a headset.