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Happy First Anniversary!!! (Or Happy Blogiversary!!!)
By Marvo | August 9, 2005
One year ago today, the first ever review was posted here at the Impulsive Buy, which was for the almost drinkable Natural Citrus Listerine. Since then, the Impulsive Buy has posted 217 product reviews. However, 212 of them suck.
It’s been a fun and interesting year here at the Impulsive Buy. Over the past year, I’ve shown a video of me stripping, ate salads for a week, deep throated a banana, removed all the hair on my legs, ate vomit jelly beans, attempted to consume the entire McDonald’s Dollar Menu in one sitting, and outed Lucky the Leprechaun.
I’ve also tried some horrible products, like the overly-peppery Salt and Pepper Pringles, the Philly-disrespecting McDonald’s Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich, the puke-looking Maruchan Creamy Alfredo Ramen, the dog food-like Carb Well Golden Crunch Cereal, the powerless and tasteless Kellogg’s Tiger Power Cereal, and the diarrhea cha-cha-cha inducing Ruffles Light Potato Chips.
But I guess I should be glad I didn’t eat these.
Good times. Good times.
I’d like to thank all of you who come by on a regular basis to read whatever crazy nonsense I write. I hope that I’ve entertained you, educated you, and saved you some money. I promise that I will continue to write nonsense, be your guinea pig, and shove things down my throat that I shouldn’t.
Now to celebrate the Impulsive Buy’s first anniversary, I’m going to take the rest of the week off and I’m going to hold the most kick ass prize drawing in Impulsive Buy history.
Okay, okay. I know I said that for the 100th review prize drawing, but this one will be even better.
Three lucky readers will each receive one mystery box containing various products the Impulsive Buy has reviewed over the past year. The contents of each box will vary. For example, one may have the diarrhea cha-cha-cha inducing Ruffles Light Potato Chips and another may not.
To enter the Impulsive Buy’s First Anniversary Prize Drawing, just leave a comment for THIS post with whatever you want to say. Please make sure you fill out the email field because I’ll be emailing the winners for their mailing addresses. Don’t worry about the shipping, I’ll take care of it.
The Impulsive Buy will start accepting entries for the drawing on Tuesday, August 9, 2005 and stop accepting entries on Sunday, August 14, 2005. Only one entry allowed per person. The drawing is ONLY open to those in the United States and US Military APOs. (I apologize to the rest of the world, but shipping the mystery box to anywhere else would be REALLY expensive.)
The winners will be determined by using a big mixing bowl, three aluminum pie pans, a can of whipped cream, and slips of paper with the email of each entrant. All the entries will be placed into a big mixing bowl and canned whipped cream will be sprayed on top of the entries. The contents of the bowl will be mixed.
When the entries and whipped cream are mixed well enough, the mixture will be equally divided into the three aluminum pie pans. I will stick a candle into one of the whipped cream pies, light it, blow it out, and then remove the candle.
Then, with my hands behind my back, I will pull out an entry from each of the three whipped cream pies, using only my mouth. Those three entries I pull will be the three winners of the Impulsive Buy’s First Anniversary Prize Drawing.
Good luck!
Fine Print: The Impulsive Buy promises your email address will not be used to send you spam about how the woman or man of your dreams is waiting for you online. The Impulsive Buy also promise your mailing address will not be used to send you life insurance policy applications. The Impulsive Buy will not be responsible for lost mail or your fiance boinking the nanny.
Topics: General, Prize Drawing |
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August 9th, 2005 at 12:59 am
Oooo! Enter me! I want the mystery box!
August 9th, 2005 at 1:04 am
Congrats on your blogoversary!
August 9th, 2005 at 1:12 am
i think you ought to have an additional contest to see what gets deep-throated next! LOL
August 9th, 2005 at 1:37 am
Hmm…whatever you want to say.
Congrats though
August 9th, 2005 at 1:44 am
Hey Marvo, congrats on your one year anniversary. Want me to send you some more jerky to celebrate it properly?
Talk to ya later!
August 9th, 2005 at 1:47 am
Marvo! Happy First Year Anniversary! Congratulations on maintaining the best blog on the Internet. I look forward to many more product reviews. Aloha and Hakuna Matta Ta (I know that isn’t Hawaiian….)!
August 9th, 2005 at 2:18 am
you say it’s your birthday, it’s my birthday too!!
August 9th, 2005 at 2:22 am
YAYAY!!!! Happy Blogiversary!!! I have enjoyed all of your reviews and am eagerly awaiting more!
oh, and feel free to enter me in the contest as well
August 9th, 2005 at 2:24 am
As a writer, I’ve spent many pleasured hours here at the Impulsive Buy rather than working; thank you so much for being here, and congratulations on being here an entire year. Here’s to many more!
August 9th, 2005 at 2:33 am
I can’t believe it’s been one year already *tear* Everything you said is true. Keep doing a good job marvo! WE LOVE YOU!!!
August 9th, 2005 at 2:34 am
Congrats! Oh and enter me into yer contest/sweepstakes - i looooooooves me some free stuff… exept free warts…. i dont like those very much
August 9th, 2005 at 2:38 am
i have always wanted to try those ruffles i enjoy torture
August 9th, 2005 at 2:51 am
oooooh mystery box. so mysterious.
August 9th, 2005 at 3:01 am
congrats on 1 year! it’s been great. and as consolation prize to all those who dont win, and because we have to wait a WHOLE WEEK for another review, i think we - your loyal readers - deserve a video of the prize drawing.
August 9th, 2005 at 3:05 am
Choose me! I like to win things! Thanks!
August 9th, 2005 at 3:14 am
Happy Birthday, Impulsive Buy!
August 9th, 2005 at 3:36 am
I’m so happy to have found your site in time to enter this exciting contest. Congratualtions on one year of blogging…….
August 9th, 2005 at 3:49 am
Congratulations! You’ve done a swell job keeping us entertained. Will you make a QT movie of the, um, drawing for the mystery boxes?
August 9th, 2005 at 3:51 am
Congratulations on one year! I agree that we should have pictures/videos of the prize drawing - I think that would be quite the sight. Enter me in the drawing! Free stuff! Free stuff!
August 9th, 2005 at 4:07 am
Happy Blogiversary!
August 9th, 2005 at 4:23 am
Congratulations! I heart your blog.
August 9th, 2005 at 4:26 am
Congratulations on a wonderful year! I hope there are many more to come!!
August 9th, 2005 at 4:29 am
Happy Bloggerversary! This is one of the best blogs on the net!
August 9th, 2005 at 4:37 am
You could teach those dudes over at Consumer Reports a thing or two…THEY never made a razor dance.
August 9th, 2005 at 4:46 am
Ooooh….count me in. I’m always in for a good mystery box.
August 9th, 2005 at 4:56 am
Congrats! Mystery boxes are my favorite…count me in.
August 9th, 2005 at 4:56 am
I like my chances much better with a random drawing than if I had to be witty…
August 9th, 2005 at 5:01 am
w00t. Keep it up, good stuff….
August 9th, 2005 at 5:02 am
Oh the mystery… I will be on the edge of my seat untill I find out what’s in the mysterious boxes. PICK ME!
August 9th, 2005 at 5:03 am
Congratulations! You have both educated and informed me, and perhaps made me want to order jerky on the internet.
August 9th, 2005 at 5:11 am
Wow thats a lot of reviews!
August 9th, 2005 at 5:20 am
Marvo, you are a rough in the diamonds.
August 9th, 2005 at 5:20 am
Enter me first!
This looks fun, i hope the mystery box has a big question mark on it like mystery boxes and bags on tv.
Now if i would of only gotten a mystery bag of crap from Woot.
August 9th, 2005 at 5:22 am
oooh- di-ah-re-ah cha-cha-cha!! who doesnt love a good poop? send it my way…
August 9th, 2005 at 5:27 am
Happy Blogiversary!
August 9th, 2005 at 5:53 am
Haha, I love your method for determining the winners!
Marvo, I must say, you have kept me entertained every morning here at work with all the crazy but funny product reviews you’ve done! I’m glad I found you!!! hehe. Anyways, thanks again, you’re awesome!
August 9th, 2005 at 5:54 am
Happy Blogiversary! Please send me a tall, dark, handsome man in a box!
August 9th, 2005 at 5:56 am
thanks for a great site marvo. you always start my day off with a laugh.
August 9th, 2005 at 5:58 am
Kings and queens and bishops too, want to wish the best to you. So wish-day, wash-day, wednes-day, blogday. Ooh happy blogday.
Happy Blogiversary! I am waiting for my present!
August 9th, 2005 at 5:59 am
If that mystery box would happen to include a picture of your finger attached to the Nitro vibrating razor, I am totally into it :0)
Sign me up, baby!
August 9th, 2005 at 6:02 am
Happy Anniversary! Here’s to many many more!
August 9th, 2005 at 6:05 am
It is so cool that you have been around for a year. Congratulations. I read every day and can’t wait to see what year 2 has in store!! Happy Blogversary.
August 9th, 2005 at 6:09 am
Congratulations and Happy Blogiversary!
August 9th, 2005 at 6:26 am
ooooh! count me in! I want some anal leakage inducing chips!!
August 9th, 2005 at 6:28 am
You crack me up! Enter me to win the mystery box and if I do, I’ll send you a bunch of Australian stuff that you’ve never tasted! You can review them and bug the crap out of people because they can’t buy them themselves!! HAHA!!
August 9th, 2005 at 6:30 am
your blog rocks. read it everyday while I should be working! Congrats on the anniversary!
August 9th, 2005 at 6:32 am
congrats to you marvo, yours is one of the few blogs I try to read every day… here’s to more crazy product reviews!
August 9th, 2005 at 6:34 am
i love reading your reviews
happy blogirthday
August 9th, 2005 at 6:34 am
Marvo, you rule like nobody’s business. But actually EVERYONE’S business, if you see what I mean. And I mean that you have a public website. Happy Blogiversary!
August 9th, 2005 at 6:45 am
YAY for you!!!!!! Happy birthday blog!
August 9th, 2005 at 6:46 am
Wow, I would love to win your mystery box. Reading your blog daily keeps me from jumping out the window, of course, it is only a single story, but I am sure that it could cause one hell of a grass stain if it ever happened.
August 9th, 2005 at 6:54 am
Mystery box sounds good to me.
August 9th, 2005 at 7:10 am
Hi!
Enter me too, ok. Is the “Mystery Box” vegan? I hope it is, and that I win it. *smiles*
August 9th, 2005 at 7:26 am
I’m a bit concerned that the whipped cream will ruin the ink on the address slips, but I trust you’ll figure it out.
I’d never seen the stripping video before. I’m all sweaty now.
August 9th, 2005 at 7:28 am
Congrats… Thanks for all the belly chuckles. Keep them coming.
August 9th, 2005 at 7:30 am
I want to win the mystery box!!!!
August 9th, 2005 at 7:36 am
I only discovered your site a month ago but it immediately became one of my daily must-visits. Keep up the good work!
August 9th, 2005 at 7:37 am
Go maire tú an lá!
Or congratulations in Irish Gaelic. I used to know the birthday song in gaelic, but you’ll have to settle for…..
Go Impulsive Buy! It’s your birthday!
August 9th, 2005 at 7:43 am
You are too funny! Happy anniversary. Hope it’s the first of many.
August 9th, 2005 at 7:49 am
Congrats, hopefully many more years to come!
August 9th, 2005 at 8:08 am
Happy Blogiversary!
August 9th, 2005 at 8:15 am
Yay! Congratulations! This is such a fun site.
August 9th, 2005 at 8:17 am
hmm… whatever i want huh? well, i got nothin. i just want free stuff.
…oh yeah, happy blogiversary, anniversary, birthday, whatever the hell it is…
August 9th, 2005 at 8:20 am
Enter Me Please!
August 9th, 2005 at 8:20 am
Love The Site!
Best Product Reviews Around.
Sounds Like Your Going To Have Some Fun Picking The Winners!
August 9th, 2005 at 8:39 am
I love you.
August 9th, 2005 at 8:43 am
i want in on your blogiversary giveaway but i’m in canada. very close to the border, though!! and does it help that i’m cute?
oh well. happy blogiversary. i visit every day because i’m a bloggie-addict and your posts are hilarious. i’d like to try all the things you try, but then i’d be extraodinarily plumpy.
August 9th, 2005 at 8:45 am
One year of consistency is rare in the blog world. Congratulations, and I wouldn’t mind some free crap.
August 9th, 2005 at 8:55 am
Ooo..Oooo. pick me! pick me!
August 9th, 2005 at 8:56 am
Happy Birthday! Let the next year bring cheer!
August 9th, 2005 at 8:57 am
Happy anniversary! Thanks for giving me something to do at work other than pesky work.
August 9th, 2005 at 9:10 am
CongrrrrrrrrrrrrRATS! on the big “one”!
August 9th, 2005 at 9:14 am
You consistency and dedication is inspiring. I hope for your sake that you are able to use it to make a living for yourself too, it would be a shame to use so much dedication only to get ingestional problems from odd foods. But in the meantime reading about the ingestional problems is good entertainment for us!
August 9th, 2005 at 9:48 am
Woo! Pool party!
August 9th, 2005 at 9:52 am
Happy anniversary! I saw Almond Joy Lime in the company vending machine today and thought of you. I’d just send one off to you to see if you’d review it, but it’s pretty hot here and the only thing that might be worse than lime-flavored Almond Joy is a melted lime-flavored Almond Joy.
August 9th, 2005 at 9:58 am
Ohhh, I wanna enter!
August 9th, 2005 at 10:09 am
Congratulations! I look forward to receiving my prize, or at least seeing a video of you pulling names out of the cream pies.
August 9th, 2005 at 10:25 am
I would like to try something new. Pick Me!
August 9th, 2005 at 10:27 am
Happy Blogiversary! You do an awesome job
August 9th, 2005 at 11:12 am
I have another suggestion for how to use a can of whipped cream, a big mixing bowl, three aluminum pie pans, and slips of paper with the email of each entrant… better yet, if you are ever in the middle of the third largest state, I could just show you. I’ll give you a hint, we throw out all save one item.
However, since you are on a mid-Pacific rock, happy Blogiversary! I love what you do.
August 9th, 2005 at 11:42 am
congrats! i knew you could do it!! oh ok, i dont really know you, but it sounded good…
August 9th, 2005 at 11:48 am
Congratulations. my little circle only discovered you a few weeks ago. I don’t think we are ready to go a week without our fix. Thank god for the archives!
August 9th, 2005 at 11:53 am
Oh my, almost missed your blogoversary.
August 9th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
Congrats on your first anniversary! I’ve really enjoyed reading your blog (it’s one of the few actually WORTH reading). I hope you continue to have fun reviewing products for us. I can’t wait to see what you review next.
August 9th, 2005 at 12:29 pm
I like pie!
August 9th, 2005 at 12:37 pm
Congrats on your 1 Year Anniversary!!! Maybe I’ll win something for it… hint, hint, wink, wink, mystery box…
August 9th, 2005 at 12:38 pm
wow, one year of reviewing! Congrats!
August 9th, 2005 at 12:57 pm
Put me in the drawing for the mystery box.
BTW I stumbled upon your site about 3 months ago, upon reading the review I immeadiately(Within a week) read every other review. You did save me money (I almost bought the salt and pepper pringles) and you’ve made me laugh (The leg shaving and the condom on a bannana). Thanks.
August 9th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
Happy anniversary. You are the golden G in Blog. Or something. Mystery box.
August 9th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
marvo, we go way back… way way back… it feels like i’ve known you forever… so long that, you might find my name to come to the top of the drawn names list… because we’re such good old friends n’ all…
anyways, your ass doesn’t taste that good to kiss, so i’ll cut that crap…. but count me in for the drawing… and please, send me those other condoms you have left if (and when) my name is drawn :D…
oh yeah, good work on the site too… i guess….
August 9th, 2005 at 1:37 pm
Happy Anniversary - love your site!
August 9th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
Congrats on your 1 year blogiversary. I bow to the MASTAH!
August 9th, 2005 at 2:12 pm
Congrats, and thanks for testing all this stuff out!
August 9th, 2005 at 2:16 pm
Mystery box? If it’s got the Rectals… I mean, Ruffles Light, might as well call it the ’shit-stery box’.
“BOO! PUNS SUCK!”
Sure, enter me in the contest. Arrgh.
August 9th, 2005 at 2:19 pm
Read my blog!
Pick me to win the contest!
Uhm… Don’t do drugs!
August 9th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
Add me to the list for the box o’ mystery!
August 9th, 2005 at 2:58 pm
Hey Marvo! Congratulations! Please senter me into the super cool drawing. As a present I would love to send you something to eat and review from New Orleans. What do you say?
August 9th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
Congrats on the one year mark. It only gets easier from here!
No, wait.. it gets much, much harder.
August 9th, 2005 at 3:15 pm
Whoa, I’m comment number 99!
That video made me giggle… a lot. I don’t think I was reading your site yet when that baby was posted. I vote for more of those haha.
August 9th, 2005 at 3:17 pm
happy anniversary, the impulsive buy … i’ve been laughing very hard and been very informed for some time now! keep up the great work! =)
August 9th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
Way to go Marvo, the only thing I check more frequently is my email, and your blod is better. It’d be the first time I won something cool…
August 9th, 2005 at 4:54 pm
Very merry un-birthday.
August 9th, 2005 at 5:08 pm
Happy anniversay!! The first anniversary is traditionally paper(but extra products work too)
August 9th, 2005 at 5:16 pm
Oh, by the way, happy first year. You deserve a copy of Katamari Damacy.
August 9th, 2005 at 5:17 pm
And a fine anniversary it shall be. I’ve only recently started reading here, but I’d be fairly willing to bet that I’ll read next year’s anniversary post, as well.
Good stuff, this.
August 9th, 2005 at 6:57 pm
Hey Marvo,
Congrats on the 1 year anniversary, here’s to another year of product reviewing.
P.S. This is my Entry
August 9th, 2005 at 6:57 pm
It’s been a year already? wow! Congratulations! You should celebrate with one of your favorite reviewed products, if it’s still around.
August 9th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Impulsive Buy
Happy Birthday to you
August 9th, 2005 at 9:03 pm
Since discovering your site you have kept me entertained. Now with the box o’mystery I can pretend to be you!! Oh be still my beating heart I’m so excited
August 9th, 2005 at 11:59 pm
Darn I’m from the Philippines so I don’t qualify. ANYWAY that’s fine. Just wanted to greet you a happy blogsary and do keep on posting. You are one big dose of entertainment, amusement and information for me.
August 10th, 2005 at 1:23 am
Hmmm…can I just be the judge and assist you? I’ll make sure that your hands are tied tightly behind your back and watch you dunk your face into whipped cream…yummy. =) heh he. Love ya Marvo!
August 10th, 2005 at 2:22 am
Happy Blogiversary! ANd I disagree that 212 of the reviews suck. It’s only 210 of them that suck.
Nah, they’re all good, my friend.
August 10th, 2005 at 3:07 am
Uh- I’m lucky 113 it looks like! Happy Blogiversary! I want presents!
August 10th, 2005 at 3:41 am
Wow.. what a lot of work to draw MY name *grin*
Love your site… funny and USEFUL too!
Mia
August 10th, 2005 at 4:29 am
Suh-wheat! Count me in. I have been so inspired by your site. And happy blogiversary!
August 10th, 2005 at 4:40 am
I want to win. What happens though if you pull two out of the same pan at the same time. Will the one with more whipcream left get eaten, and the other one win?
August 10th, 2005 at 4:49 am
Marvo - Happy Blogiversary! While I’ve only been reading a few short months, my life has been changed by The Impulsive Buy. I could go on, but I’ll leave it at that. *hugs*
August 10th, 2005 at 5:58 am
Happy Anniversary!!!
August 10th, 2005 at 5:58 am
Please enter me! Sweet!
August 10th, 2005 at 6:13 am
Happy Anniversary!! Enter me for the free stuff!! THanks for the entertainment!!
August 10th, 2005 at 6:55 am
Well I am totally impressed. I came to you via Blogzie and boy am I glad she directed me here. Hope to read more and more and more. You inspire!
August 10th, 2005 at 9:15 am
sweet site!
sweet contest!
August 10th, 2005 at 9:19 am
congrats on the mile-marker. keep up the good stuff because lots of us out here appreciate it. don’t get all lame on us and start updating infrequently, and then eventually just give up entirely. if you do that i will hunt you down and kick you in the shins.
August 10th, 2005 at 10:15 am
Ooh! I want a big box o’ free stuff!
Yay! Congrats, you constantly have me laughing…
August 10th, 2005 at 10:16 am
hey good times… congrats yo…
August 10th, 2005 at 10:45 am
I stumbled across this website about a week ago, and my life has never been the same…but in a good way! Keep up the good work!
August 10th, 2005 at 11:34 am
Aw heck, throw me in a pie. I’m not sure I want a razor vibrator, tho …
August 10th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
I just found this website a couple weeks ago while doing a search to find out what the heck chicken fries really were. The night I found it I ended up just reading your reviews for like 2 hours. I wish I’d found you sooner! Thanks for making me laugh!
August 10th, 2005 at 12:48 pm
Congrats on the 1 year anniversary. You crack me up…
August 10th, 2005 at 1:15 pm
I’ve added you to my favorites list. Congrat’s on the fab year! Your process for drawing the winning e-mail addresses could only be enhanced by taking pictures of the event.
keep it real for many more…