I was out doing some Christmas shopping this afternoon and I looked for Burger King’s beef-scented body spray. I couldn’t find it. A major disappointment.
What’s the worst present you’ve seen?
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The worst present??
Waking up on December 25 and realizing that George Bush is still our President for another 26 days.
The best present??
Waking up on December 25 and realizing that in just 26 days George Bush will no longer be our President.
Glass half full?? Glass half empty?? Just can’t figure it out.
yes, but what is your position on flame-broiled beef-scented body wash?
I’m sure Andi and Jim’s pack would love some.
My wife and I have enough trouble keeping our dog out of the bed at night as it is. I don’t want to make it worse by smelling like a cheeseburger.
I know it’s heretical to be against something as American as good ol’ beef, but I have to draw the line at the beef scented body wash.
I vote “NO”.
I was out shopping today and saw perfume that smelled like weird things like tomatoes and beeswax and fresh laundry. The grossest one was lobster…
via an old BT friend’s blog last year, the flying alarm clock and the runaway alarm clock. this nightowl would have to destroy them both…
Hehe. Reminds me of a funny story.
When I was in college, one of my roommates was notorious for oversleeping. As in, I really think he had a sleep disorder – it was not uncommon for him to sleep 14-16 hours a night, and we’re not talking after a hard day of…well, anything.
So anyway, he was having problems waking up for class. His alarm would go off at 10am and he would snooze until 3 or 4 pm.
Finally he decided to move the alarm clock across the room. He had a loft, so he would have to get out of the loft to turn off the alarm clock, thereby waking him up.
Problem : From across the room, the alarm clock was not annoying enough to wake him up in the first place. I’d come home in the early afternoon to the alarm going off and him sleeping.
As a last ditch effort, he tried taking the alarm clock apart, and extending the speaker wire so that the speaker was right by his ear, but the clock was below the loft.
I figured that had to work. But no. One day, as I was sitting in the room, his alarm went off…and I watched him pull the clock up to his loft by the speaker wire, and hit snooze.
He ended up failing pretty much all his classes that term.
When I started college away from home, I had to set up two alarm clocks, a pleasant one next to my head, and the most horrible loud noise alarm you ever heard across the room and set to go off a few minutes later. In about two weeks, I had trained myself to wake up to the nice one and get to the nasty one before it went off.
In another month, I could use just one mild-mannered alarm clock.
Thanks for letting me relive one of the great success stories of my life.
I’m holding out for the pizza scent.
The worst present I’ve seen was on the jewelry channel. It was a kit that included a rather slimy canned oyster. The oysters, opened by the gift recipient, each contain a cultured pearl, which is then set into the included rather cheesy-looking pendant setting.
Apparently, no cocktail sauce or lemon is included with the oyster.
My 8yo daughter said she wanted “Havoc Helicopter” after seeing some ads on TV. Never heard of it so did some research. Basically, it’s a remote-controlled (“RC”) micro helicopter. Definitely entry-level in the RC realm, but seem to have good reviews. And given the layout of our house (open space) I think my daughter would enjoy it–especially a package deal involving two helicopters that can interact by “shooting” each other down. She has friends over every day so this would be good.
Nevertheless, this is a no-frills helicopter so I needed to understand my daughter’s expectations. I asked her to call me the next time she saw a commercial on TV.
When I saw the commercial, I was astounded by how deceptive it was.
Fact: Helicopters interact with each other via invisible infra-red signals. Depiction: Helicopters fire little (animated) missiles at each other.
Fact: When a helicopter is “shot down”, it simply rotates down to the floor. Depiction: When hit by a missile, the helicopter looks electrified (special effect) before it falls to the floor.
Fact: The helicopter is controlled by line-of-sight IR signal. Depiction: Helicopter flies into another room without human operator.
The commercial was on my Tivo, so I replayed it in slow motion several times looking for a special effects disclaimer but saw and heard none.
I asked my daughter if she thought what she saw in the commercial is how the helicopter and its “missiles” would operate, and she said, “Yes.” When I explained how it would really operate, she was still fine with it…and I do think she would enjoy it.
I figure this is the kind of ad that eventually will come to the attention of the FTC, especially because it targets children and runs on a children’s channel. But unfortunately not before it creates disillusionment for some children.
Ah…now that I’ve written this comment, I’ll next try to contact the company. Who knows, it might do some good.
I wanted a dog, they got me a turtle. Turtle didn’t make it to spring, unfortunately…
I might have just bought the worst present anyone has ever received….a canned Spotted Dick.
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The “What-a-Pizzeria Pizza Warmer”. I am not kidding. This was just before microwaves were common. Huge metal container that could hold a large pizza. Had a heating coil. Its only purpose was to keep your pizza warm. What it did was dry it out real fast. Come garage sale time, I couldn’t give it away.