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The End of the World
Saturday, 2005 April 9 - 12:27 am
According to an article I read today, the Wiggles are the highest-earning entertainers in Australia.

If you have small children, you're probably familiar with the Wiggles.

The Wiggles are four grown Australian men who make the most annoying children's videos EVER. You might not find them annoying at first, but as it turns out, the Wiggles are like HEROIN for infants and toddlers. When you're with a Wiggles-addicted child, you have to watch the videos OVER AND OVER AND OVER. There's a few skits, but mostly it's a bunch of horrible songs and dances. This picture should tell you all you need to know about these guys:



A little over a year ago, I baby-sat my friends' daughter at the peak of her Wiggles addiction. She would form complete sentences like this: "Wiggles wiggles wiggles wiggles, wiggles WIGGLES WIGGLES!" It was her drugged-out way of saying, "Enough with the Cheerios, asshole, break out the Wiggles video already." And the singing and the dancing would start, and she would throw a fit if I didn't participate in the ridiculous dances with her. Oh, the agony.

So today, I found out that the Wiggles made $34.5 million in 2004, which is more than 2nd-place Nicole Kidman at $30 million, and more than 3rd-place Russell Crowe at $20 million. (Strangely, in 4th place was AC/DC. Those guys are still alive?) The Wiggles make more than Nicole Kidman. This just proves my theory that the Wiggles are actually the FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALPYSE. I think John just had the colors (er, colours) wrong.

Shoot, if I could get a kid to enjoy watching Nicole Kidman for a few hours, I would pay to baby-sit that kid. Come on, let's watch "Eyes Wide Shut". It'll be fun!
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Comment #1 from Lisa V (Guest)
2005 Apr 9 - 10:57 am : #
Hot potato, hot potato!

Yes we have a Wiggles lover here too. However in our house Sponge Bob trumps Wiggles, so there is always a way to get hime away from it.

Another scary fact Donny Osmond's blog/webpage got 100million hits last year. I saw it on Larry King. Now I know he has alot of family, but that is a lot . I think they are requiring every Mormon must be required to visit his site.

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