Category Archives: Television

Things Worth Hoping For: Bert and Ernie

By Smaktakula Even love has its limits.  How much longer can Bert endure Ernie’s unending cavalcade of tedious bullshit?    About these ads

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Skanks In The Crosshairs, Part I: Twilight Of The Strumpets

By Smaktakula The 21st Century promises to be a cold one for women of easy virtue.  Harlots, hos, sluts, wayward girls, hussies (both brazen and wanton), tramps, Run-Around Sues, bad girls, seductresses, chickenheads, homewreckers, libertines, gold diggers, skanks, loose women, hose-monsters, skeezers, camp tramps, … Continue reading

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The Skonk

By Smaktakula In preparation for our upcoming multi-part investigative series on modern whoredom, Skanks In The Crosshairs, the Promethean Times Research Staff spent hundreds of man-hours reading tabloids, clipping articles from old issues of People Magazine we’d liberated from dentists’ offices, and … Continue reading

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Happy Thoughts For Tuesday: Thank God Michael Lohan Isn’t Your Dad

By Smaktakula In the tradition of such illustrious space-wasters as Brian “Kato” Kaelin and Kevin “K-Fed” Federline, unctuous pimp Michael Lohan has managed to keep food in his belly by crafting a persona famous for being semi-famous.  Lohan, no doubt a subscriber to the maxim, “All Roads … Continue reading

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Everything Suddenly Coming Up Promethean Times

A Very Special Message From Smaktakula Much like human papillomavirus in America’s high schools, Promethean Times is pretty hard to avoid these days.                             Find Promethean Times At                              WWW.PROMETHEANTIMES.COM                                For our elderly or intellectually disinclined readers:  Don’t get excited; the old address will still take you … Continue reading

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Still Not What You Were Looking For?

By Smaktakula In which we once again present some of the various search-engine keywords used to find Promethean Times. Some, we suspect, were not on purpose.  See our first installment here: Not What You Were Looking For?. live aid Geez, you put up … Continue reading

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Commercials We Do Not Like: The Olive Garden

By Smaktakula The Olive Garden has been crapping out adequate fare for nearly thirty years, all the while striving mightily to frame itself as the workingman’s access to continental dining.  Targeting those customers for whom the Red Lobster is too provincial, the Olive Garden aspires to bring the … Continue reading

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Update: George Sherrill

By Smaktakula No change, folks–still a douche.       Profiles In Suckery: ERA 7.48  IP 21.2  ER 18  BB 17  SO 12  BLSV 3*       The difference between George Sherrill and a Little League second-stringer?  That shitty beard.     We’ll keep you posted.      * … Continue reading

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Not What You Were Looking For?

By Smaktakula We would like to believe that of the nearly 800,000 hits* Promethean Times receives daily, each is a reader who set out specifically to find us.  Of course, this is sometimes not the case. Here are some of the keywords (noted by boldface) used … Continue reading

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Commercials We Do Not Like: Bush’s Original Baked Beans

By Smaktakula Jay Bush, the balding, squishy spokesperson for Bush’s Original Baked Beans seems like a nice enough guy.  With his rounded, non-threatening contours and schlumpy, vulnerable charm, Bush is an able enough pitchman for his family’s product.                  Then there’s Duke, Bush’s golden retriever and sole … Continue reading

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