You're in the big leagues! (Bubble Gum Weekend)

The hilarity of bubble gum's mere existence just keeps on mounting!

Peep Big League Chew, for instance. Introduced in 1980, it's a brand of BG that comes in pouches which (to much controversy) resemble those in which chewing tobacco is sold. The gum itself looks like pink spaghetti.

It's funny stuff. You know why? Because it's gum, that's why. And gum is funny.

Take a gander at this uproarious commersh from the early '80s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GyEkvqtHPs

Although the ad talked about "man-sized wads" (hey Beavis you said "man-sized wads") of bubble gum, this brand enjoyed brief interest among men, women, and children alike. People bubbled with it.

Big League Chew gained renewed attention in 2005 in Newport, Kentucky - the same city where I was born some years earlier! A 25-year-old woman got busted for stealing several pouches of the stuff (along with 2 cases of Slim Jim beef sticks) from the Remke's supermarket on Carothers Road.

Now she's probably not in the big leagues but in the big house (jail)!

I guess she was desperate to blow the World's Biggest Bubble if she was willing to risk jail time to steal gum.