“The Cornballer was invented by George Bluth Sr. sometime in the 1970s. He attempted to market it in the United States by taping an infomercial with fitness guru Richard Simmons, but the infomercial was interrupted when he burned himself using the device, then lost his temper and attacked Simmons. He suffered a further setback when the device was deemed unsafe for anyone and was banned across the globe. 
However, despite these setbacks, he was able to market the device illegally in Mexico by redubbing his infomercial saying, "¡Soy loco por los Cornballs!" to make it appear as though George Sr. was not burned, but rather was "crazy for cornballs". This made him into something of a cultural icon in Mexico, and when Mexican officials staged his execution, an editorial cartoon in a Mexican newspaper showed him being dipped into a Cornballer with the caption "Frito Bandito".”
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I hope that your holiday season is full of fresh, piping hot cornballs.
For Halloween I'm thinking of setting up a cook-your-own-cornball table in the driveway for all the trick-or-treaters this year. Just think of all the cornballing fun those kids will have.
Why not instead of setting up a cornball table you "teach those kids a Halloween lesson." You know the kind of lesson I am talking about-a lesson that those kids will never forget. I am envisioning that you get a lot of fake blood and act as if your limbs have been severed. That will teach them-never to go trick or treating or at least never to go trick or treating at the Toddcat residence.
Why not combine the cook-you-own-cornball table and the Halloween lesson idea? Be George, Sr. for Halloween, set up the table on your driveway, have the trick-or-treaters take the role of Richard Simmons and reenact the infamous burn scene over and over. That's a lesson those kids would never forget.
I do like the idea of teaching those kids a lesson they will never forget. I'm going to hire my one-armed friend J. Walter Weatherman and maybe even some Hot Cops to help out. I'd get Tobias to help, but he just blue himself in case the Blue Man Group would call needing a stand-in.
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