Looked into my Futurociter today and found some pictures of Mike. As low-carb advocates might predict, Month O’ Bacon will actually make him lose a great deal of weight. But very-near-future Mike seems changed in subtler ways:
… With thanks to NetDiva, who made the FrankenBacon above (”BaconStein” seems wrong); and to all who alerted me to this delicious, hickory-smoked golem.
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1 mrbasehart on Feb 19, 2009 at 12:13 pm
For one terrifying moment, I thought you’d built the thing yourself.
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Reply from karen on February 19, 2009:
2nded
2 Arwen on Feb 19, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Does this make anyone else think of the wicker man?
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Reply from N8 on February 19, 2009:
I totally agree. How’d it get burned?!
Reply from Bonnie on February 19, 2009:
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Reply from michael on February 19, 2009:
or the Burning Man
Reply from Darth Chimay on February 19, 2009:
Not the pigs! NOT THE PIGS!!!!
Reply from valdisfox on February 19, 2009:
Good point, guys… but… *ulp* I don’t want ANY bacon made from, or touched by, a sacrificed Edward Woodward or Nick Cage, depending on which version you watch. Though I suspect the Cage bacon to be smokier (yet tougher) than its mild English cousin. Ick! I don’t want to be thinking about this!!
Reply from Earl Fando on February 20, 2009:
Not burned… smoked.
I doubt the pagans in either film used hickory, mesquite, or even applewood.
3 Lord Bob on Feb 19, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Wow. Rifftrax recording sessions must be awkward while Bill and Kevin are trying to eat Mike’s arms.
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Reply from Bill Corbett on February 19, 2009:
Well… that’s nothing new, really.
4 Incurable Insomniac on Feb 19, 2009 at 12:29 pm
It’s really disturbing that someone would spend so much time imagining and making that thing…
And you’re right. “Baconstein” sounds wrong. How about the actual German: “Speckstein”?
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Reply from Lord Bob on February 19, 2009:
(testily) It’s Bah-kohn-steen!
Reply from Laura on February 19, 2009:
I love you.
5 Walter on Feb 19, 2009 at 12:37 pm
But if that bacon is there, it means I’m not eating it.
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6 Gina on Feb 19, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Bill and NetDiva (and Mike too, I suppose), thanks in advance for the nightmares!
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Reply from Mr. Alexander on February 19, 2009:
Even more than the bacon man himself, I’m disturbed by all those tools and parcel supplies on the table. Are government offices going to start receiving packages filled with unidentified grease?
7 Mr. Alexander on Feb 19, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Am I to assume there’s a pig’s brain suspended inside that Amish meat basket head?
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Reply from Bill Corbett on February 19, 2009:
“Amish Meat Basket Head” is the name of my improv troupe.
8 Rob T Firefly on Feb 19, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Win Bacon Stein’s money.
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9 Ninjew on Feb 19, 2009 at 1:30 pm
It’s a prop from “The Bacon-Witch Project”
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Reply from Mr. Alexander on February 19, 2009:
No redneck is this creative!!
Reply from Ryan on February 19, 2009:
What do you mean? It is useless, fattening and an eyesore. Those are the only things rednecks put any creativity into.
10 awfulgoodmovies on Feb 19, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Is he wearing bacon clothes or is he nude in those photos?!…… And if he’s nude….Where’s his ‘thingy’? ?
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Reply from Earl Fando on February 20, 2009:
I think the words “this is a family site” might explain that.
The other possibility is that it wound up on someone’s plate, which is somewhat disturbing from a psychoanalytical point of view.
11 AlexB on Feb 19, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Good lord, that head is WOVEN bacon. Are there any other meats one can weave with?
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Reply from Geena on February 22, 2009:
None worth mentioning.
Reply from Earl Fando on February 22, 2009:
On the contrary, certain types of beef jerky lend themselves to weaving, as well as the really long varieties of Slim Jims.
While the effect is not as stunning, both visually and gastronomically, as that of bacon, I’d argue that they’re at least worth a mention.
I understand lutefisk can be woven as well, but only into a soppy mess of a cardigan.
12 OxfordProle on Feb 19, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Holy God. Mike has developed devil horns of bacon! I don’t know whether to be horrified or hungry.
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13 Ryan on Feb 19, 2009 at 2:41 pm
So, Mike became even more awesome? I didn’t know that was possible.
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14 davehop on Feb 19, 2009 at 2:43 pm
It’s confirmed: Mike is officially “yummy”. He has whittled down to swine flesh and no bones.
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15 Remmie Barrow on Feb 19, 2009 at 2:45 pm
So that’s Mike as of the first of March, Huh?…Must have shrunk, don’t ya think?
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Reply from Constantine on February 19, 2009:
Mike is actually quite short in person. Depending on the temperature, he stands anywhere between 2 and 3.5 feet.
Reply from OxfordProle on February 19, 2009:
“Depending on the temperature, he stands anywhere between 2 and 3.5 feet.”
I can’t really explain why, but this is the funniest damn thing I’ve read all day. Well done.
16 AJ on Feb 19, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Ha haaaah! I almost spat my tea all over the screen when I saw that!
So very cool!
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17 Barry on Feb 19, 2009 at 3:40 pm
When I looked into my futurociter, all I saw was that the future involves us all having really big foreheads.
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18 NanoRiffite on Feb 19, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Bacon Stein, brother of Ben Stein.
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Reply from Ben Stein on February 19, 2009:
I’m krispy AND kosherriffic!!
Reply from Mr. Alexander on February 20, 2009:
I’m not sure that Stein’s monotone can actually vocalize exclamation points…
19 ShutterBun on Feb 19, 2009 at 5:38 pm
The centerpiece for this years “Sizzling Man” celebration was not as grand as the event’s organizers had hoped…
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20 Constantine on Feb 19, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Is anyone else hungry?
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Reply from valdisfox on February 19, 2009:
Yes, very. But… are we SURE that’s actually Mike? Not just some bacon-y homage to Mike? Bill, I love Mike’s riffs with you Kevin, but were any of us left alone with 2.5 to 3 feet (depending on temperature, as per Constantine
of bacon, we’d be minus a riffer. I WOULD be remorseful about if, of course. Full, yes, but… very remorseful.
21 valdisfox on Feb 19, 2009 at 7:21 pm
I have to stop staring at the photo now. I keep imagining the bacon golem, teetering and stumbling around, waving his crispy little arms, singing “Whaaaat… would you do…… if I sang….. out a tune…..” =^.^=
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22 Nick Fechter on Feb 19, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Wow, I’m going to have disturbing nightmares tonight!
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23 rebisaz on Feb 19, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Wow, that high-protein, low-carb diet really DOES make you lose weight. I’m in!
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24 James Shearhart on Feb 19, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Ya know, it’s not Burning Man unless someone’s tits are painted blue, and someone else is driving a ‘71 Ford Pinto converted into a fish that dispenses margaritas from a firehose. Also, bacon is the Official Monetary Unit of Burning Man….
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25 jenifersf on Feb 19, 2009 at 11:17 pm
I…want…to eat him.
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26 Erica on Feb 20, 2009 at 6:26 am
I haven’t read through the comments surrounding the Month o’Bacon, so forgive me if someone has already brought your attention to this website:
This Is Why You’re Fat
http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/
Featuring The McNuggetini, Carny Casserole, Bacon Explosion Wellington, etc… it might at least give Mike some fresh ideas for bacon consumption.
-Erica
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27 Earl Fando on Feb 20, 2009 at 7:31 am
After all the “eating” jokes, I think the most disturbing thing about this bacon golem is how much it looks like a character from a Tim Burton stop-motion animation film.
It’s one thing to imagine that a trained culinary artist hadled all that bacon. It’s quite another to imagine Tim Burton had his mitts all over it.
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28 Mr. Slick on Feb 20, 2009 at 8:01 am
“It’s BEAUTIFUL!!!”
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29 abyssgazer on Feb 20, 2009 at 8:50 am
Apologies if this has already been posted, but I think it would make a great gift for the compulsive bacon-eater in one’s life. Or an epitaph for the soon-to-be late Michael J. Nelson.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21302066
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30 jfe on Feb 20, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Could it be that THE MASTER did this to Mr. Nelson after he discovered Torgo?
Aside from that, how is this thing glued together?
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Reply from Earl Fando on February 22, 2009:
Bacon drippings, I expect. When it cools, it’s quite the adhesive.
I may be mistaken, but that would be the purist’s method.
Reply from jfe on February 22, 2009:
sounds logical and quite pure.
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