You'll be sayin' wow every time.

Since the dawn of time, mankind has had to endure the moist indignity of spilled soda. No longer my friend, today is the day of the Shamwow. On the 8 day God and the Germans created the Shamwow and God saw that it was good. Many of you are familiar with the Shamwow from its commercials, in which a headset wearing huckster makes outrageous claims about the absorbent nature of this miracle chamois, in the soothing accent of a native Jersean. Today the Ladywarrior and I purchased a set of Shamwows and after rigorous testing I will now give you my honest review.

Review: ShamWow.


The Shamwow is a pretty good absorbent towel-like square of cloth. I am impressed with the size and quantity of Shamwows in one box. We purchased ours at Target and in the box we received 4 "mini" Shamwows and 4 large sized Shamwows. The mini Shamwows are pretty large, in fact they are at least as big as the shamwow seen in the commercials. This may be the only time in history that a product is actually bigger than the commercial presents it to be. In my opinion the commercial makes a few exaggerated claims about the absorbent nature of the Shamwow, specifically the demonstration featuring the cola underneath the carpet. The Shamwow is an excellent chamois but it does not have the near magical abilities displayed in that part of the infomercial. At this point I know what you are thinking, "Warrior, why would you endorse a product that lies in its commercials?" Well, let me tell you. The man in the commercials is named Vince Offer. I will not go into his history, (if you are interested you can read it here.) but basically Mr. Offer uses all of his profits from the Shamwow commercials to fight Scientology. That is something I support. As somebody who grew up in a cult like religion I totally support this New Jersey braggart and his fantastical towels. Also of interest is his commercial for a vegetable chopper named the Slapchop, whose commercial can be viewed here. I would like to mention that the same woman from the testimonial part of the Shamwow commercial is in the slapchop commercial. Man she most love Vince as much as I do.

A new direction for Coverjudge

Hey Guys, this is where I need your help. I have realized that my schedule of working part time, teaching, and being a full time student is not too conducive to my reading of a tremendous amount of silly books. Oh, I read a lot, but I don't think you guys want me to review scientific journal articles. So here is my new proposition to you, I will from now on publish a new article once a week, every Thursday, rain or shine, but it will not always be a new book review. It will however be a review of something. This is a review blog after all. (If you want to read about my daily life then you should read my other blog.) Tell me what you think of this new plan in my comments. I think it is a win win because you get to read more of my witty observations per month, but some of you might feel that it is divulging from the nature of my blog, and I understand that complaint.

-- The Warrior.