Comments on: Review: a loaf of snot

By: johnnyaction

johnnyaction — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the tip.

By: jfrancis

jfrancis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nice subsurface light scattering

By: millie fink

millie fink — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I hear echoes of Herzog (who narrates nearly as well as he directs).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDBtCb61Sd4

Oh, wow. My keyboard IS pretty dirty. So, thanks . . .

By: muteboy

muteboy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This looks like the same stuff that comes in a little tub, then you stick your fingers in and it makes an amusing fart noise.

By: bob cooley

bob cooley — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great review format, and cribbing from Herzog and William S Burroughs is a nice touch…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I thought it said a Review: a LOAD of snot.

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Previously: http://boingboing.net/2008/07/22/viscous-keyboardclea.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, Rob, in that case you and Yahtzee sound quite alike, down to certain inflections, phrasing style, and word choices. Take a listen to Zero Punctuation on the Escapist.

Regardless, best review for a handful of goo I’ve ever read.

By: the spacebase

the spacebase — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I want every product review video to be this quietly menacing.

By: vjk2005

vjk2005 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As Gintama will tell you, Snot can be quite handy for cleaning. Especially your face Â» http://j.mp/gintamagif5

By: treeskier

treeskier — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

of the infinite possibilities with which this review could have been executed – this is the most awesome and inexplicably overachieved

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Love the poorly placed advert pop up:

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb458/totorodad/poorlyplacedpopupadvert.png

mmm: So Juicy..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So it’s basically Slime, the oozy novelty toy from Mattel back in the mid-seventies. Came in a green garbage can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_%28toy%29

By: forgeweld

forgeweld — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If I’m a kid in that house, that thing is forfeit to my toy collection.

By: burritoflats

burritoflats — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

sometimes a soft cloth and a dab of water can do the job of ten snot loaves

By: EH

EH — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“…of the kind that could be wiped by anything.” nice!

By: genre slur

genre slur — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The audio to this mixes quite well with part 2 of Robert Rich’s Somnium (computer hooked up to nice speakers, great lp for sleeping). Having just woke up, I hazily found my way to boingboing. When I clicked the video it didn’t dawn on me that it might have audio. As I’m watching this, this guys stars up about a package, all film noir. I think to myself ‘I’m usually asleep by part 2 but I didn’t think there were any vocals in it, it sounds more like Second Site by Paul Schutze.’ Good morning!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

so…who’s narrating this video? and is that clockwork orange music in the background?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The menacing tone gives me serious Blue Jam flashbacks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s just admit who this product is really for: There is no better product for people who tend to smoke things around their keyboards.

By: soubriquet

soubriquet — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using it for a couple of years now. It works. It even works well. It cleans between the keys in my mobile, it cleans the speaker-grids in my laptop, it cleans the crud-filled crannies in the phone’s battery case, it cleans around the switches in my car, it picks up dirt from the textured surface around the dash….
In short it works well enough for me to have just bought batch number two, number one having been dropped on the floor so many times it was getting a bit full of absorbed evil.

The point is… You’re doing it wrong. Don’t scrub, just press it on, hold a few seconds, and peel away. When you peel, all the crud will come with it. If not, repeat.

Mine came in a little snap-top container, which makes far more sense for a product similar to fluorescent silly-putty.

If your snot looks like this, ever, then get theee to a hospital, quick.

By: Fang Xianfu

Fang Xianfu — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I feel like bluetack would work better and last longer (especially if you wear gloves while using it so that it doesn’t waste most of its stick picking up your still-attached-ish skin cells). Plus you can stick up a poster with it when you’re done.

By: grimc

grimc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So is this basically the same material as the octopus toy that you throw against a wall and it kind of rolls down it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is this Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, speaking slowly?

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I did the narration and the music. Ta!

By: Dedzig

Dedzig — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Loving the hair at 1:04. @the spacebase I agree.

By: BobRH

BobRH — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

On the other hand, I kind of enjoy generating wet, schlupping noises…

By: VivelaRevolution

VivelaRevolution — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

A riveting documentary…..very Stanley Kubrick!

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Even if it does work as advertised, it’s still a pretty brilliant video.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

its just a blob of flubber that you can easily make yourself at home with Borax, white Glue and water. Advantage of doing at home yourself is you can adjust moisture levels on your own so as to be more effective on varying surfaces.