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Sen. Dick Durbin sent out an email appeal today urging people to celebrate "A Plumpynut Holiday." Our senior sentator wants his constituents to spend $20 this holiday season on Plumpynuts, a "sweetened mixture of peanuts, essential vitamins, minerals and milk served in foil pouches [that] has become a high-nutrient, high-energy weapon in fighting malnutrition."
Plumpynuts really are a great way to spend $20. Durbin tells us that the nutritional pouches were developed by researchers in 1999, and that they are classified as a "Ready-to-Use Foods," meaning no preparation needed. In case you need a reason to donate, know this: five million children under five years of age die each year due to malnutrition-related illnesses. Plumpynuts are particularly valuable because they're so simple: They don't need to be distributed by a doctor, nothing needs to be mixed with water, and they're incredibly effective. You can make a donation at the Doctors Without Borders website.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a worthier cause. But..."plumpynut" is a hilarious word. And getting an e-mail from Durbin urging us to have a "Have a Plumpynut Christmas. A Plumpynut Kwanzaa. A Plumpynut Hannukah. And a great Plumpynut New Year" was just the sort of giggle-inducing email we were looking for on a Friday afternoon that refuses to move along any faster.
And the giggling only encouraged those of us in the Chicagoist office to try out some plumpynut one-liners. Please, add your own in the comments. [Ed note: I will donate $20 to Plumpynuts in your name if you come up with the best zinger.]
Are those plumpynuts, or are you just happy to see me?
Plumpynut: For when no other nut will do.
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I guess Durbin is the hog with the plumpy nuts.
Anyone else but me reminded of the Schwetty Balls skit from Saturday Night Live?
I tried to embed the You Tube Video of the Schweaty Balls and it failed, but here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8-pCbQnSC4
I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus.. underneath the plumpynuts last night.
Its funny I use to hate Durbin. Then O'bama came along and made Durbin look like Patrice Lumumba.
like Nas said, "who's world is this?". It sure aint mine. But I remain hopefull.
Plumpynut sounds like some Web 2.0 company... wait, is this real food or something "throw" at starving kids to taunt them on Facebook?
What a bunch of f*cking addle-brained retards! If you did your research or had your ear next to a television lately, you'd know how much of a breakthrough Plumpynuts is for saving children in famine-stricken Africa.
This is a legitimate program run by Doctors Without Borders in countries like Niger. Plumpynuts is RUF - ready-to-use food - which does not require preparation or refrigeration.
I guess if it isn't sold as a concession at the latest hip concert or there isn't a cool moody photograph of it, you just hold it up for ridicule here at Chicagoist.
thomas_macentee: suck my plumpynuts and lighten up. Did you skip the first two paragraphs of the article?
"Deez plumpynuts!"?
Please eat Dick's Plumpynuts.
I'm proud to be represented by Dick D. Other than that time he cried like a bitch and apologized for calling the warmongers what they truly are, he's represented me well. If you write him a letter a staffer will write back and invite you to have donuts (not Plumpynuts, as yet) at his office in DC. Whether you get to share a beer at his kick-ass crash pad is not specified, however.
Are those Plumpynuts in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
first of all i just want to say how super awesome laura (lo or la-o) is. i look for her postings every night before i sleep. her words are like the fois gras of the blogs.
i think i saw some movie with a guy plumpynutting all over this girl. it was some kind of record or something.