Twinkie The Kid: The Twinkie Holder
Here’s a post for all the Twinks out there! Greetings! (Don’t forget to check out my other Twinkie The Kid post.)
'Owdy Pardnar!
I found this in my local grocery store when I lived in Boston. It was right up my alley and large intestine. I think it cost a couple of bucks and also a couple of dollars. I wish that I had saved the packaging even though it was rather boring and minimal. This is more than just a an “action figure” or toy. It has a…PURPOSE! This lil buddy can hold ONE Twinkie. That’s right! Not -1 or 0 but ONE whole Twinkie! Check out its Twinkie receiving orifice!
I suggest putting only half of the Twinkie in at first and then shoving the whole thing in.
This crap lead to the brief Twinkie The Kid phase of ’03. I started buying anything reasonably priced with Twinkie The Kid on it off eBayz. I’ll include some of my collection at another time. Unfortunately, someone broke my Twinkie The Kid glass. You know who you are!
What’s not to love about this dude?! Here’s got that sweet kerchief, white gloves and cowboy boots. Not to mention his ten-gallon hat. (Look up the origin of that and give me a call.) Plus, he’s always super excited about whatever happens to be going on at the moment. Look at that smile! It’s just too bad that they didn’t include his signature lasso here. There’s a borderline entertaining video HERE which made me feel like I wasn’t alone in getting suckered into buying this crap. The video also uses a song from Walk Hard: a movie that I believe should be required viewing for all musicians. In keeping with tradition I’ll leave you with a pic(ture) of the dumps.
Like a truck.
Also, someone send me a deep-fried Twinkie. Reading about it made me super hungee. Thanks. You’re the best!
Jackercrap 
“Ten gallon” hat
Some cowboy hats have been called “ten gallon” hats. The term came into use about 1925. [28] There are multiple theories for how the concept arose.
One possibility is that the tight weave of most Stetsons hats made them sufficiently waterproof to be used as a bucket. Early print advertising by Stetson showed a cowboy giving his horse a drink of water from a hat. [29] The Stetson company notes that a “ten gallon” hat only holds 3 quarts. [30] However, though a very high quality felt hat made from animal fur may hold water, [31] even a cowboy hat with a large crown holds less than a gallon of water, and over time, any cloth container will leak.
The durability and water-resistance of the original Stetson obtained additional publicity in 1912, when they raised the battleship USS Maine, which had been sunk in Havana harbor in 1898. They found a Stetson hat which had been submerged in seawater for 14 years; it had been exposed to ooze, mud, and sea-growths of the water of the harbor. However, the hat was renovated and to all appearances was as good as ever. [32]
Modern hats are usually not made to be as durable as the original designs. When most modern felt hats get wet, the hat is apt to lose much of its ability to hold its shape, thus using it as a water container will destroy most modern hats, other than a few at the very highest quality range.[citation needed]
Another theory is that the term “ten gallon” is possibly a corruption of the Spanish term “galón”, or galloon, a type of narrow braided trimming around the crown, possibly a style adapted by the vaqueros. “The term ten-gallon did not originally refer to the holding capacity of the hat, but to the width of a Mexican sombrero hatband, and is more closely related to this unit of measurement by the Spanish than to the water-holding capacity of a Stetson.” [31] Thus, the term “ten-gallon” did not originally refer to the holding capacity of the hat, but to the width of a sombrero hatband. [31] When Texas cowboys misunderstood the word “galón” for “gallon”, the popular, though incorrect, legend may have been born.
Thanks Bear Bones. I already looked at the wikipedia page. I was looking for some inside information Martha Stewart style.
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