http://blogs.purpleiguanasoftware.com/ en-us 40 Obscurata Craptacula comments <p>While running on the treadmill this morning, I saw this <a href="http://www3.youtube.com/watch?v=2o23xPfIGrY">Purex commercial</a> which featured a disturbing fish man character who, as far as I could tell with the sound down, appeared to be heckling a housewife in her laundry room about what I imagine could only have been one of two subjects:</p> <ul> <li>The unholy and unspeakable reek of her family&#8217;s dirty clothes, or&#8230;</li> <li>A dark and horrible secret of her ancestry that will soon be revealed by the unveiling of a gruesome atavism with horrifying implications.</li> </ul> <p>Learn more in <a href="http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/theshadowoverinnsmouth.htm">The Shadow Over Purex</a>. As horrifying as all of <a href="http://www.cthulhulives.org/Solstice/fish-menplayer.html">this</a> was, it still paled by comparison to the episode of the supernaturally unfunny Ellen Degeneres talk show that was playing on the adjacent television. <em>Shudder.</em></p> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:29:00 PDT <a href="/articles/2006/04/26/horrifying-purex-detergent-commercial">Horrifying Purex Detergent Commercial</a> <a href="/articles/2006/04/26/horrifying-purex-detergent-commercial">Horrifying Purex Detergent Commercial</a>