I tried out the ShamWow! but I didn’t do anything dramatic enough to know if it works or not. I should have spilled wine on the carpet or something. I don’t really have enough information to give this thing a star rating or to have an opinion on it either way.

What I do have, though, is a serious question. If it’s so great and it lasts forever, why are there eight in a box?, I asked myself as I watched the commercial. The answer to this is really screwing with my mind. See, you can wash the ShamWow! in the washing machine, but you can’t put it in the dryer. Since it holds in the liquid like nobody’s business, you just have to wait for who knows how long for it to dry out. Perhaps you could use another ShamWow! to dry off the first. And the third to dry off the second… It’s like an endless cycle.

This is why that dude in the commercial seems so nuts and so intent on making sure everyone in the world owns some of these things. He probably started out as a normal guy who was just trying to keep his bachelor pad clean. After a particularly messy Super Bowl party, a mysterious German came by and gave him some of this WowTastic! material.

If you go to microphone dude’s house now, you will see the old bachelor pad transformed into a labyrinth of ShamWow!s, much like those OCD/packrats have newspapers stacked to the celings- forming new walls. 87,000 Shamwow’s and on the far wall in the kitchen is a chart stating which one is wet today.

Anywho, I bought these for my mom because she wanted to see if they’d dry her hair. I guess the results of that experience will be recorded in another entry.