Ten years ago the ability to sell a snippet of a hit song was something only a pothead could think up. Yet P2Pnet reports Hasbro's recent release of its new Turbo ToothTunes music in your mouth toothbrush--similar, I suppose, to musical greeting cards, with accompanying abbreviated tune.

My amusement of this product is deep, partly because I tend to wander, bored and restless, while teeth brushing, leaving a trial of toothpaste with which I can find my way back to the sink. Further, I can't think of a better way to embed, permanently, an annoying heavy rotation of "Walking On Sunshine" in my head for all time, as if a single radio play weren't enough. The musical delivery is guaranteed to do just that:

Sound waves stream through the bristles and travel through your jawbone to your inner ear where the music is heard in your head!

But what I really like is the weird hodgepodge assortment of available brain worms found in the Tooth Tunes Catalogue, which you can sample on site (and yeah, they're the actual artists). What Neil Sedaka's "Waking [ie. Breaking] Up Is Hard To Do" or The Beach Boy's ""Fun Fun Fun" is doing in a children's selection gives me pause--do they REALLY have Sedaka loaded into their iTunes?. I ponder what kind of advance so tempting that Queen and Kiss also got in on the mix. And what kind of parent gives his kid a toothbrush that plays The Village People's "YMCA" anyway? Don't they know WHY it's fun to stay there?

But hands down, Devo's "Brush [Whip] It" wins for my first Best Song In Children's Toothbrush Award. Just the sample snippet of the snippet is totally hilarious, and may make a hit with potheads worldwide.