# Goofy things that you want. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2002, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806 "2002-07-25T18:59:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/21 "2002-07-26T05:29:26Z")
my own private army…oh,ohh and one of those fried snickers bars,sounds gross ,but thats what i thought about kiwi untill i tried them. that is all for now ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/22 "2002-07-26T06:03:11Z")
How about goofy things I finally caved and bought? [http://www.artistdolls4you.com/Non\_Frame\_Pages/bigsmall\_wonder.html](http://www.artistdolls4you.com/Non_Frame_Pages/bigsmall_wonder.html) I own E and F now… why do I, at 25, suddenly want these when I haven’t bought one for twelve years? I adore them, though, and would buy B too if I found it for the price I got the other two. I also want a radio controlled boat… ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/23 "2002-07-26T06:06:36Z")
I want a talking, tubby calico cat, or maybe a gray tabby, which I could train from kittenhood to wear a pink tutu and walk on a leash decorated with pink rosettes. Man, that would be boss! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/24 "2002-07-26T06:28:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Creaky \* > \*\*I want a talking, tubby calico cat, or maybe a gray tabby, which I could train from kittenhood to wear a pink tutu and walk on a leash decorated with pink rosettes. Man, that would be boss! 😃 \*\* I used to think Spoofe was Beelzebub incarnate, but he’s just a prancing little goblin imp compared to your overwhelming evil. You are the mistress of ultimate darkness. Satan Creaky 5 letters each - Coincidence ? I think not! Satan+Creaky = santa car key = bad mojo ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/25 "2002-07-26T07:18:25Z")
I want one of the following: A pink and green striped tiger. A strawberry the size of my head. A pirate ship complete with crew. That glowing string thing that the assassin tried to cut off Johnny Mnemonic’s head with. An extra pair of arms attached to my ribcage. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/26 "2002-07-26T07:18:48Z")
Don’t green laser pointers belong in here somewhere? I want a paraglider with a very oversized parchute/wing thing so that I can turn it into a jet paraglider at some point. I’ve never flown, and mildly dislike heights, and I don’t currently have a running jet engine. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/27 "2002-07-26T07:36:09Z")
I want a stuffed Cthulu doll. I think I’ll put that on my list this Christmas. I want a cycling simulator. A stationary exercise bike that can simulate an entire course, along with gear shifting, coasting, etc (I want to ride the Tour de France in my living room). If it could also simulate competitors and show what place I was in, that would be truly spiffy. ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/28 "2002-07-26T07:47:35Z")
I’d like an autogyro - gotta be the goofiest thing in the air (discounting the possibility of a lawn chair suspended from a bunch of balloons). A moon bounce or tilt-a-whirl would be fun, too. I am planning on building a unicycle if I can’t find one that’s up to my specs for a good price. What I’d really, really like, though, is a shipping container and a house full of domestics for a day. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/29 "2002-07-26T07:48:30Z")
A steam powered motorcycle, and a steam powered car. While I could use a car, I really, really, really want a steam powered one. What’s even funnier about the motorcycle is that I’ve never ridden any (muchless a steam powered one)! ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/30 "2002-07-26T08:27:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by g8rguy \* > \*\*Damn you, **jackelope** , I was going to come into this thread and post my odd urge to have a red Cooper Mini, figuring no one in their right mind would have stolen my idea, and you beat me to it! ARGH! ☹ \*\* Man, I love those things! Maybe the synchronous thinking is because we’re both Floridian; do all Floridians want a red Cooper Mini? (I live in Memphis, but I’m a native gator, I swear; grew up finding Seminole arrowheads in the backyard and collecting shark’s teeth at the beach.) ---
**Author:** ![jmpride62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jmpride62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmpride62)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/31 "2002-07-26T10:03:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NurseCarmen \* > \*\*I’d love a bobcat (little bulldozer thingie). I have virtually no need for one. \*\* There is an extremely wealthy guy who lives on an estate nearby who makes hills, holes, etc., on his property with his bulldozer. Then he levels everything and starts all over again. ---
**Author:** ![GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f1d935/32.png) [@GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GSV_Consolation_of_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/32 "2002-07-26T10:28:58Z")
An [antique bar billiards table](http://www.ukbrewing.com/barbilFR.htm) Big dog optional. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/33 "2002-07-26T10:49:12Z")
I want a cowboy hat. I have no need for one, I’m a programmer and live in Wisconsin, but I think it would be cool for a while to have a cowboy hat. It beat those baseball caps everybody and his uncle wear these days. I also want a cape. I saw a picure of a Doper somehwere and he had a cape. I think it would be cool to wear a cape sometime, at least for halloween. I think guys should wear capes more often. ---
**Author:** ![taklon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@taklon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taklon)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/34 "2002-07-26T11:19:07Z")
i want the world to stop so i can get off … ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/35 "2002-07-26T13:07:41Z")
I want a mini submarine! Really, _really_ badly. One that looks like [this](http://www.meddybemps.com/deepblue/bayw05.html). ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/36 "2002-07-26T13:45:39Z")
I want a house where each room is decorated in extremely different styles: - heavy ornate Victorian master bedroom, - Chinese-themed red lacquer and jade dining room, - retro-70s kitchen, - Shaker simple spare bedroom - Georgian foyer (very baroque staircase) - personal library straight out of a private club (dark paneling, wing chairs, bearskin rug, animal head trophies on the walls, stuffed marlin over the fireplace), - hallways filled with life-sized potraits of my ‘ancestors’ (ME!) dating back to the Renaissance in proper dress and all that), - Spanish-Mediterranian living room, - Japanese zen garden in the backyard. - front yard has a nice relecting pool surrounded by flowers and rocks (no lawn). I also want a bonsai tree for my desk at work. **Sublight** - I have a stuffed Cthulu doll - rides with me in the car. And he now has a travel partner. I picked up a ‘limited edition’ stuffed purple Beany-esque bear from Ginnie Springs recreation area: Number 666 of 1000. I kid thee not. There were hundreds of these bears in the store, and this one was lodged in the jaws of an alligator carved from a tree trunk. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki\_actually](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b2d939/32.png) [@Iteki\_actually](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki_actually)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/37 "2002-07-26T13:51:25Z")
Oh god, where to begin… Things I desparatly want but have no need for? Patterned contact lenses (the vanity kind). 90% of whats on [www.thinkgeek.com](http://www.thinkgeek.com) 99% of whats on [www.redbox.com](http://www.redbox.com) (especially the cufflinks shaped like asperin, that actually _hold_ asperin. This despite the fact that I neither get drunk nor wear shirts with french cuffs). A lot of things at some site that I can’t spell (american catalogue site) including a huge parabolic computer screen, an inflatable floating iceberg to climb and slide down, and much much more!) ---
**Author:** ![Iteki\_actually](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b2d939/32.png) [@Iteki\_actually](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki_actually)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/38 "2002-07-26T13:57:05Z")
ooh! thought of another one! Ok, its on one or two of the sites above, but hey… I want a thumb-print scanner for my computer! They aren’t even that expensive any more… how time flys… ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/39 "2002-07-26T14:50:47Z")
I want a time-viewer. Not a time machine, I don’t want to risk causing paradoxes, but a gadget that lets me see, hear and (if I want to) even smell any location on Earth, any time in the past. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806/40 "2002-07-26T15:18:16Z")
I want a bunch of plastic pink flamingoes, yard gnomes, yard geese and other assorted yard art. I’d dress them all up as if they were having a garden party. Some would be sipping coctails, some would be playing croquet, maybe a couple with lampshades on their heads (the real party animals). I’d put the display in my front yard, then sit in my lounge chair in the driveway, drink beer and watch the reaction as people drive by. (And people say I don’t know how to have fun! HMPH!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofy-things-that-you-want/120806.md?page=3)