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John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol III: THE STOMATOLOGIST.

Xeni Jardin at 10:51 am Tue, Oct 28, 2008

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Today on Boing Boing tv, we reprise our ongoing SPAMasterpiece Theater series, featuring author, PC, and minor television personality John Hodgman, whose new book, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE, has just been released.

Hodgman himself describes this series as the dramatization of "true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you -- what we call SPAM."

Today's installment: The Stomatologist, in which we answer a lovelorn Russian woman's age-old question, "Why I cannot find my special the man?"


Link to Boing Boing tv blog post with instructions on how to subscribe to our daily video podcast, and here is the direct MP4 download link.


A note from our musical director: The adaptation of Jean-Joseph Mouret's "Rondeau: Fanfare" (1735) which opens today's episode was remixed in flagrante 8-bit by Hamhocks Buttermilk Johnson.

Also: a special and hearty thanks to the talented and generous Ehrich Blackhound (previously boinged here) for creating our new, typographically-correct opening slates for this parody series.

Previously on Boing Boing tv:
* SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol. I
* SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol. II

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • raisinlove

    When I was living in Poland, I kept seeing signs reading STOMATOLOGIA (I forget the exact ending) and wondered why there were so many stomach doctors around. A friend finaly pointed out that a stomatologue is a dentist ;)

  • guernican

    When that dreadful, dreadful ad came on in the middle of this piece, I was sure she was saying “Crapfire.net”.

    I think that’s much better than Crowdfire. That’ll be £500 please.

  • Teresa Sue

    Thank you, Xeni.
    I especially like the shot of Jesse Hall (University of Missouri — Columbia).

    Special the man, indeed!

  • Elvis Gump

    Yes John Hodgman, please to be knowing that this was funniest spam reading I hear all day. I have much laughter and enjoyment and make to write to thank you.

    Please not to stop making hilarious videos for the boingboing because then sad I would be.

    Спасибо!(Spassiba!)

  • Mackenzie

    The problem with that Russian woman is that she doesn’t know how to look at pictures of men in underwear and drool over Paul Newman & George Clooney. Wassa mattar?

  • Anonymous

    Where direct download link is? ;-)