# infomercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2001, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials/83886 "2001-09-26T10:53:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials/83886/1 "2001-09-26T10:53:38Z")
Okay, still awake at 3:00 AM, and all thats on is infomercials. Some part of me enjoys yelling at these stupid people, but dammit, they are all the same! There’s always some guy who can do anything because he’s got 35 superturbogrill3000’s in his kitchen, and another guy who couldn’t make toast without calling his mother first. The first guy inexplicably spends half an hour of his life trying to convince the second guy that he really can cook reasonably simple food, while the second guy makes assorted comments that, in real life, would earn him a smack upside the head with a sock full of woodscrews. Still, I am watching these people. It especially bothers me when they show what life was like “before” whatever product was invented, in little black and white vignettes featuring people who would clearly need to wear safty goggles to sharpen a pencil. Argggghhhh! Am I the only person who can’t stop watching these things? ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials/83886/2 "2001-09-26T11:01:11Z")
Hide all the credit cards. My friends (really, not me, my frieeeends…) all own a George Foreman no-fat lean machine grill or whatever the f@#k it’s called. Now covered in dust in the corner of the kitchen. BTW have you seen the new “hip” commercials for the George Foreman thing? They look just like a f@#cking GAP ad. Probably making a fortune, good old George. Incidentally, all of his five or six children, EVERY SINGLE ONE, is named George Foreman. Even the girl, I think. How strange is that? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials/83886/3 "2001-09-26T11:10:37Z")
No, you are not the only one. I see them too, as a comic relief. ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials/83886/4 "2001-09-27T08:29:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by leander \* > \*\* > Incidentally, all of his five or six children, EVERY SINGLE ONE, is named George Foreman. Even the girl, I think. How strange is that? \*\* I read this too, somewhere. I heard that he refers to his kids by numbers with 1 being the first born. Can you imagine living all your life with your father refering to you as #2? This is definitly a sick man. ---
**Author:** ![moggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@moggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moggy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials/83886/5 "2001-09-27T15:37:02Z")
There’s a commercial that he does for Meinike (I think) where he’s talking about safety or something, he’s in a car, and he turns towards the back, the little baby in a carseat in the back LOOKS JUST LIKE HIM!! It was probably a grandchild but it was disturbing, like a George Foreman version of Mini-Me. ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials/83886/6 "2001-09-28T09:33:43Z")
I wonder if the baby’s name is George Foreman Two-Two? ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infomercials/83886/7 "2001-09-28T09:42:50Z")
George Foreman Jr., III George Foreman III, Jr. ??? Crazy man, he is. (crazy like a fox, jr.)