So, I'm reading this article -- as I've muttered elsewhere, prostate cancer runs in my family and it's very likely I'll get a diagnosis one day, therefore reading up on it is something I do as stories catch my eye.
And I notice this paragraph:
Prostate cancer groups have tried to replicate the success of the pink ribbon campaign with their own blue ribbon, but it has yet to gain widespread acceptance. A group advocating the development of imaging technology for prostate screening created a mascot, Prosty the Spokesgland, complete with a theme song, to the tune of “Frosty the Snowman.” Not surprisingly, it has not caught on, either.
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So of course I search for it, and I find it, complete with video.
Prosty the Spokesgland Is a prostate gland, we're told Buried deep inside largely out of sight He's ignored by young and oldProsty the Spokesgland How we hope that lump's benign But it's hard to say Cause the only way To diagnose and treat is blindThere might just be some cancer In that lump they found today But we really can't be sure right now Cause you can't trust the PSA
Prosty the Spokesgland How we hope that lump's benign But it's hard to say Cause the only way To diagnose and treat is blind
There might just be some cancer In that lump they found today But we really can't be sure right now Cause you can't trust the PSA
Oh. Dear.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 06:22 (eighteen years ago)
John Kricfalusi?
― remy bean, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 06:47 (eighteen years ago)
If only.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:56 (eighteen years ago)
THIS IS THE BEST THING IN HISTORY. I WILL MARRY ALL THIS PROSTY.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:47 (eighteen years ago)
wtf
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:55 (eighteen years ago)
See, I was wondering what you would think.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:58 (eighteen years ago)
Wow. I mean I'll be one of the first people to go "LOL SISTERHOOD BULLSHIT" to the claim that women are naturally more philanthropic or compassionate or whatev, but given the amt of time and money spent on ED and balding and non-essential men's health issues, it's pretty...SOMETHING...that what's holding back prostate research is lack of study volunteers and grass-roots support.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:59 (eighteen years ago)
No, it's been a lack of SEVERELY EXCELLENT WEIRD AL STYLE ADAPTATIONS about prostates.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:00 (eighteen years ago)
Oh my bad!
― Laurel, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:00 (eighteen years ago)
This is as good as Mister Yuck is MEAAANnnnn...Mister Yuck is GREEENNN.
The gland's name reminds me of Pit Pat, the Transexual Spokesthing:
http://thatsonpoint.blogspot.com/pithat-dtl.jpg
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:01 (eighteen years ago)
oops, that should be PANSEXUAL
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:02 (eighteen years ago)
It can be both!
(Or maybe it's just a EUNUCH.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:02 (eighteen years ago)
Are you SURE this is not John K., Ned?
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:03 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.manogram.org/media/prosty.jpg
I guess it's kind of ironic that the mascot for something reached via your asshole is something of an asshole but on balance my main reaction is WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING?????
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:04 (eighteen years ago)
You know...
(Laurel's point is a great one, meantime -- I've heard it seriously argued that the reason why there aren't a lot of volunteers is that most guys just don't want to be examined in the first place, due to extreme macho straightness. Tools.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:04 (eighteen years ago)
You can only touch about a third of the damn thing. :(
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:05 (eighteen years ago)
"ONCE MORE AND WE'RE DATING."
― Laurel, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:05 (eighteen years ago)
I have to admit, Prosty is pretty good for an organ that looks like a blob of chicken fat:
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/graphics/2006graphics/prostate_enlarged_z.jpg
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:06 (eighteen years ago)
lol google Prosty the Spokesgland, it's very amusing (Ned is MAKING A DIFFERENCE)
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:07 (eighteen years ago)
x-post -- Given the skin tone, I now know what a Smurf prostate looks like.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:07 (eighteen years ago)
ANYTHING TO HELP
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:08 (eighteen years ago)
Oh shit we're third! How can my love of PROSTY take him to the TOP?
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:08 (eighteen years ago)
I can't wait for the Colon Cancer character.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:10 (eighteen years ago)
I hope Prosty's voice is done by Gilbert Godfried, who voiced other PSA character "Seymour Smoke, smoke detector."
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:14 (eighteen years ago)
Be cool about FIIIRRE SAFETY...if you don't wanna get BURNED!
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:15 (eighteen years ago)
Seymour at 1:49.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:16 (eighteen years ago)
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3JqWpGGARjc/default.jpg
He even LOOKS like GILBERT.
Oh my GOD LIndsey Lohan is the little redhead talking to Seymour Smoke@!
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:17 (eighteen years ago)
I'm turning into Surmounter here.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:18 (eighteen years ago)
How did we go from prostates to Lindsey Lohan?
(Upon reflection, that transition isn't all that shocking, is it.)
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:19 (eighteen years ago)
Prostate cancer ----> spokesgland Prosty ----> PSAs with Gilbert Godfried -----> OMG PREPUBESCENT LOHAN
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:23 (eighteen years ago)
Prosty with Lohan Makes a jolly thread they say
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:25 (eighteen years ago)
I hope she assuages your fear of prostate cancer, Ned.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:26 (eighteen years ago)
I hope she massuages your fear of prostate cancer, Ned.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:29 (eighteen years ago)
She will only be able to massage about a third of it. Bear this in mind.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:32 (eighteen years ago)
My friends are so kind to me.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:32 (eighteen years ago)
Friends? Where?
― Laurel, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:34 (eighteen years ago)
Friends are kind to the third of Ned that's accessible.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:35 (eighteen years ago)
So my blog post on Prosty has hit Yahoo's Buzz list. This could be amusing.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 13:54 (eighteen years ago)
Wow, this might be an even worse idea than the Glaucoma Hymn.
― clotpoll, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 15:13 (eighteen years ago)
The first thing I thought of when my dog woke me up this morning was Prosty.
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Saturday, 18 September 2010 16:47 (fifteen years ago)
He's here sharing an article with Petey the Pee Cup.
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Saturday, 18 September 2010 16:51 (fifteen years ago)
I was such a goofball in this thread. :\
I was about to go on a rant about the total bizarreness of a glaucoma hymen before I realized I couldn't read.
― juggalo iglesias (HI DERE), Saturday, 18 September 2010 16:56 (fifteen years ago)