Behold! A Mayonnaise Golem!

Maybe someone will erase the word from his forehead and he'll just fall apart.

Check this video of the whitest mayonaise golem.

Jack Brown, my man.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rnaSDjkVJjo

One of the more condescending things I've seen. Even worse than Hillary's trying to "talk black" in African-American churches.

[after Rob Schneider's Richard]:

Mittle Big Man! Mitt-el-Europa! The Mitt catches a Hardball! Mittochondria! The Secret Life of Walter Mitty! Miiiiiitttt...makin' hip-Hoppies!

It was the "mayonnaise" in Rod's headline that recalled Martin Mull to Larry: ah, the late 1970s - it's all coming back again, the smoke, the mirrors...Larry, who reveals himself to be at least 40, refers to Mull's notorious "Humming Song,"* which I caught one night on, I think, The Tonight Show (C.E.: Carson Era) circa 1980, the year I finished my education while not in high school (bad case of senioritis).

*Recalled helpfully by commenter Mediocrates over at Israel Forum:

http://www.israelforum.com/board/showthread.php?t=797&page=4

"The tune and tempo are very soft, intimate, loungish Bosa Nova.

Last night I took you home
And we began to hmmmmm
You were such a hmmmmm
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm only seventeen
Hmmm hmmm hmmm leather skirts
Hmmm hmmm hmmm rubber shirts
Hmm hmm hmm hmmmm and jars of Vaseline

Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm -- pick up the soap!
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm -- mayonnaise and rope!

Then from the chandelier
The three of us did hmmm hmmmm hmmmm
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm hospital for life
Hmmm hmmm hmmm whips and chains
Hmmm hmmm hmmm Great Danes
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm your wife

The Humming Song
Copyright circa 1980 by (probably) Rear Exit Music Inc. and
the one, the only Martin Mull who actually performed it on national commercial TV once."

Good Heavens (forehead smack)! I hadn't even thought of that. And when you pair at Google "Martin Mull" with, respectively, "Humming Song" and "History of White People in America", your results have about a 1-to-35 disparity in favor of Erik's worthy supposition over mine. To borrow from the Big Audio Dynamite song "Hollywood Boulevard":

Flynn and Reed in conversation
Renowned throughout the land
Use a calculator, work out who's the better man
Now Errol's got the looks, and ollie's got the strength
One is talking numbers, and the other's talking length...

Until Larry casts his deciding vote, painful honesty forbids me boast of either numbers *or* length...

Rod,

If you "know" it's "mean", why do you do it? It is not of the spirit (gentleness, meekness, KINDness, etc.)

Wow, it's rare to find someone who saw that performance by Mull, though I gather it's on an album of his, too. You'd have to been all of 12 or so when it first ran.

It's remarkable how this Romney brother-man shtick recalls for some of us the popcult of the 1970s more than of later decades, when a joshing, loose-limbed black-white *modus vivendi* seemed in our culture to be in the offing: Blazing Saddles, Sanford and Son, Richard Pryor, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Bill Cosby, Stevie Wonder, Three Dog Night's "Black and White," even Diff'rent Strokes, with Conrad Bain's Philip Drummond as a what's-past-is-prologue Mitt Romney...those lacking a you're-soaking-in-it exposure to the earlier jive-Romney thread herein, who recall Officer "Hoppy"'s Ted Baxterish attempts to coffee his cream on *Sanford and Son* might enjoy the targeted 101 I outlined there:

http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/01/the-whitest-man-in-the-world.html.comments.html