When I was in high school I had a friend with a huge basement.  His parents were wicked rich and we used to drink down there a lot on weekends.  His parents didn’t care as long as we didn’t go anywhere.  So we’d drink and watch TV and chew Kodiak and drink Natty Lite.  Once in a while his older brother would come down and punch us and if he had any friends with him the friend would punch us, too.  Assholes.  Here is a list of things that happened in that basement at different times (all 100% true).

  • We trapped one friend in the bathroom with a BB gun.  He passed out with the heat lamp on and when he woke up his face was all…shiny and tight.
  • We took our skinniest friend and put a blanket over him and weighed it down with 45 pound plates.  He was trapped and we just kept piling things on his face.  Things like sticks of butter  and remote controls and snow.
  • Whoever was taking a shower was guaranteed to have a freezing bucket of water poured on their head.  Once it happened to me and I feel like I was in a cartoon.  I was mostly dead but all I got was yelled at by my friend’s mom for wrecking the shower curtain.

But one night there was a disaster.  Their dog, Wally, a cute little Westie, got in a fight with a porcupine and lost.  Lost badly.  He looked like he had a bunch of coffee stirrers sticking out of his face.  He was bleeding and crying and shaking his poor head.  It was tragic.  But my friends and I were hammered as were the Seniors (the brother’s friends who would punch us) and we tried to stay really quiet while our the family freaked out.

They finally found an emergency vet and they all sped off and left us there.  We looked at each other.  Sophomores and Seniors.  Nobody wanted to laugh at the reaction of our friends’ mom.  And usually the Seniors would just pound on us but we were bonded by witnessing the horror that was: rich people with a hurt dog.  Then one of the Seniors said one of the most asshole things I have ever heard.  I laugh about it to this day.

I know it’s sad and everything.  But you really don’t give a shit if it’s not your dog.  Right?

What an asshole.  Video and lyrics after the jump!

(SPOKEN)
Folks, I’d like to sing a song about the American dream.
About me, about you, about the way our American hearts beat way down in the bottom of our chests. About the special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, maybe below the cockles, maybe in the sub-cockle area, maybe in the liver, maybe in the kidneys, maybe even in the colon. We don’t know…

(SUNG)
I’m just a regular Joe with a regular job.
I’m your average white suburbanite slob.
I like football and porno and books about war.
I’ve got an average house with a nice hardwood floor.
My wife and my job, my kids and my car.
My feet on my table and a Cuban cigar.

But sometimes that just ain’t enough to keep a man like me interested (oh no) no way (uh-uh). No, I’ve gotta go out and have fun at someone else’s expense.
(oh yeah) yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

I drive really slow in the ultra-fast lane,
While people behind me are going insane.
I’m an asshole (He’s an asshole, what an asshole)
I’m an asshole (He’s an asshole, such an asshole)

I use public toilets and piss on the seat,
I walk around in the summertime saying “How about this heat?”
I’m an asshole (He’s an asshole, what an asshole)
I’m an asshole (He’s the world’s biggest asshole)

Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces,
While handicapped people make handicapped faces.
I’m an asshole (He’s an asshole, what an asshole)
I’m an asshole (He’s a real fucking asshole)

Maybe I shouldn’t be singing this song
Ranting and raving and carrying on
Maybe they’re right when they tell me I’m wrong…
NAAAAH!

I’m an asshole (he’s an asshole, what an asshole)
I’m an asshole (he’s the world’s biggest asshole)

(SPOKEN)
You know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado convertible, hot pink, with whale skin hubcaps and all leather cow interior and big brown baby seal eyes for headlights. Yeah! And I’m gonna drive around in that baby at 115 miles an hour, getting 1 mile per gallon, sucking down quarter pounder cheeseburgers from McDonald’s in the old-fashioned non- biodegradable Styrofoam containers! And when I’m done suckin’ down those grease ball burgers I’m gonna wipe my mouth on the American flag and then toss the Styrofoam containers right out the side, and there ain’t a God-damned thing anybody can do about it. You know why? Because we got the bombs, that’s why!

Two words–nuclear fucking weapons, OK? Russia, Germany, Romania – they can have all the democracy they want. They can have a democracy cakewalk right through the middle of Tiananmen Square and it won’t make a lick of difference, because we’ve got the bombs, OK? John Wayne’s not dead – he’s frozen! And when we find a cure for cancer, we’re gonna thaw out the Duke and he’s gonna be pretty pissed off. You know why? You ever taken a cold shower? Well, multiply that by 15 million times. That’s how pissed off the Duke’s gonna be.

I’m gonna get the Duke and John Cassavetes and Lee Marvin (Hey) and Sam Peckinpah (Hey) and a case of whisky (Hey) and drive down to Texas… (Hey, Hey, Hey)

(Hey you know you really are an asshole)
Why don’t you just shut up and sing this song pal.
I’m an asshole (He’s an asshole, what an asshole)
I’m an asshole (He’s an asshole, what an asshole)
A – S – S – H – O – L – E.
Everybody, A – S – S – H – O – L – E.

Arf Arf Arf Arf Arf Arf Arf
Fung Achng Tum Chng Fum Afung Fung Ooh

(SPOKEN)
I’m an asshole and I’m proud of it!

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