>> ^MINK:
why are these people never embarassed that they saw a vaguely elongated shape and immediately thought "PENIS!!!!"
i mean, surely the correct prudish reaction on encountering something a little bit T shaped is to NOT NOTICE IT.
The lady doth protest too much.

I think you're on to something. Perhaps the start of a new web game. The "Find everything phallic at Wally World" game.

I had always been disappointed with the quality of footage on this boat, but this is probably one of the best videos on the Wallypower 118 out there. Thanks.

Check out Wally's sailboats. They are kickass.
http://www.wally.com/jumpCh.asp?idChannel=1&idUser=0&idLang=IT

walliewallie
http://www.wallie.co.uk/

Heh Heh Heh. Only in a Wally World.

Upvote for the Wally World t-shirt.

I love this man.
I hate Wally World.
Yes they really have greeters.

UnderDog seems very hard to find... sorta remember watching it as a kid.

In 1960, handling the General Mills account as an account executive with the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency in New York, W. Watts Biggers teamed with Chet Stover, Tread Covington and artist Joe Harris in the creation of television cartoon shows to sell breakfast cereals for General Mills. The shows introduced such characters as King Leonardo, Tennessee Tuxedo and Underdog. Biggers contributed both scripts and songs to the series. When Underdog became a success, Biggers and his partners left Dancer Fitzgerald Sample to form their own company, Total Television, with animation produced at Gamma Studios in Mexico. At the end of the decade, Total Television folded when General Mills dropped out as the sponsor in 1969.

Underdog was an anthropomorphic superhero parody of Superman and similar heroes with secret identities. The premise was that "humble and lovable" Shoeshine Boy, a cartoon dog, was in truth the superhero Underdog. George Irving narrated, and comedy actor Wally Cox provided the voices of both Underdog and Shoeshine Boy. When villains threatened, Shoeshine Boy ducked into a telephone booth where he transformed into the caped and costumed hero, destroying the booth in the process when his super powers were activated. Underdog almost always spoke in rhyme:

When Polly's in trouble, I am not slow,
So it's hip! hip! hip! and away I go.

Underdog's most frequent saying when he appeared was:

    There's no need to fear, Underdog is here.

The majority of episodes used a common template when Underdog first reveals himself. A crowd of people look up in the sky would say: "Look in the sky. It's a bird! It's a plane!" After which one a woman exclaims, "It's a frog!" Another onlooker responds "a frog?" To this, Underdog replies with these words:

    Not bird, not plane, not even frog, it's just little old me, (at this point, Underdog crashes into something) Underdog.

Underdog usually caused a lot of collateral damage. Whenever someone complained about the damage, Underdog replied:

    I am a hero who never fails.
    I cannot be bothered with these details.

The villains almost always managed to menace Sweet Polly Purebred (voiced by Norma McMillan), an anthropomorphic canine TV reporter as part of their nefarious schemes; she was a helpless damsel in distress most of the time, and had a habit of singing in a somewhat whining tone of voice, "Oh where, oh where has my Underdog gone?", which she sings to the tune of the song "Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone" when in jeopardy. Recurring villains included Simon Bar Sinister, a mad scientist with a voice reminiscent of Lionel Barrymore, his assistant Cad and Riff Raff, an anthropomorphic wolf gangster based on the noted actor George Raft. Other villains include The Electric (Slippery) Eel, Battyman, and Overcat.

Unlike Superman, Underdog's super powers are not a natural part of his physical makeup. When he is not Underdog, he is incognito as a shoeshine boy and hurriedly dresses in a phone booth like Superman when trouble calls; he must take an "Underdog Super Energy Vitamin Pill" to ignite his powers (like Mister Terrific). He keeps one of these pills inside a special ring he wears at all times. Several episodes show Underdog losing the ring and being powerless, since he must take another pill as his super powers begin to fail. When the series was syndicated in the 1980s and 1990s, the scenes of him taking his energy pill were edited out. Animation fans lambast this as a form of political correctness, as they believe the scenes were removed in order to prevent any glorification of drug use

Flares may be $8 at Wal-Mart, but seeing as how the Military likes to spend $100 Dollars per toilet seat, and roughly $50 for a hammer. I'd say it puts their flares over 10 times Wally Worlds price... You know I think I have some tissues I can sell to the Millitary, I'd be turning a 50 cent profit on each one.

I wrote a brief piece about this yacht on my now largely defunct blog, there are some more details about its top speed etc... here

http://www.itineratesurfer.com/2005/12/15/wally-yachts/

I would like to say that wally world added advertisements to that thread after I linked it. Which is pretty lame, although i guess one does what they have to. Also the last two comments are highly suspicious in that they are both from people with only 1 vote and 1 comment. Each for this thread. They both relink to the thread i posted. They both use a link with a different format, which came from the front page, as opposed to inside the thread. I can't prove anything though, all of the IP's are different.

At any rate I suppose we will have to get used to this sort of opportunism, and its nice that the community can drive links places. However, its not so nice when its just self promotion and lacks any meaningful contribution.