I pretty much gave away the surprise when I titled this entry the same as the item. Don't get me wrong, I don't like making fun of the dead. I will make fun of latex flatulence delivery devices. Then, I'll make fun of the dead. Please keep history in context. So, I had one of these when I was a kid. I've added a few to my collection over the years, but they come and go because they do wear out. The always popular gag gift, the Whoopie Cushion. This was the front of mine and countless others. It must be clip art of a 40's looking "chub" and otherwise stuck up high brow rooty tooty, sitting on the chair and making it BURP. Hey, she just sat on a FROG. All frogs love the song "That's Amore" "NO THEY DON'T!"

I mean, this will not die. You can still get this image with the freakout dog Cocker Spaniel with ears splayed while the fat lady burps not through her mouth. Of course, it's called a BRONX CHEER to make it past the censors. Think the noise made by Carrol O'Connor on All In The Family when Meathead showed his meat to Sammy Davis Jr. Also "Do not inflate too heavily". Has anybody actually popped one of these by blowing it up? I can see if you used a mechanical device...

Here is the "back" which really is the supposed "front" of this "Bronx Cheer" noisemaker. WAAAAAYYYYYY back in 1994, Cleveland was all a flutter as the owner of the Cleveland Football Browns decided that he had been treated shabbily by the Cleveland elite and decided to tear the hearts out of thousands of rabid "Dawg Pound" denizens and move his team to Baltimore. He said this during the season and all hell broke loose. I was working at WWWE and it became an endless source of comedy as the HILLS department stores company decided to pull their advertising off of the stadium billboards and radio and every other advertiser followed suit.

It was odd hearing the Browns games with no advertising, It became a "news and PSA and weather" break. As our radio station didn't have the Browns at the time, it was all the more digging we could do to competing radio stations. I did a few bits for Cleveland's Mike Trivisonno's evening sports talk show. I made fun of someone else who was dead, Casey Coleman, a legendary sports broadcaster here in Cleveland. Hell, it was radio WAR! It was war against the NFL for letting this "ART" move the Cleveland Football Browns. I think that's how I came in possession of such a device.

I used this and a Art Modell urinal screen as decorations for our Christmas tree that year. Of course, we got to keep "the name" and we were magically granted a "expansion" team and we were playing our half-assed brand of half-assed foobah in our half-assed new stadium by 1999. It was no treat to see Baltimore's Football Former Browns win the SuperDooperGame, but it was nice to see Art Modell look terrified when the dropped confetti on the winning....oh hell... *Buuuuuuurrrrrrrrrp* There. Time warp Bronx cheer.  He was still around when that fart was released in 1994.

ARF! -Ricochet