The Piper household got a Hammacher Schlemmer catalogue The other day; we haven’t received a copy of The catalogue for The longest time.
Had forgotten The ridiculous tag of using “The” in front of every single one of The things in The catalogue; The Hammacher Schlemmer people don’t just sell “Fantastic Gadgets” but “The Fantastic Gadgets”.
I find The use of “The” so distracting that The catalogue goes straight in The wastebin as soon as The catalogue enters The house.
And your question is???
Obviously this doesn’t belong in GQ. I will move it to MPSIMS.
Sorry, two flags, looks like we each reacted to one.
Meanwhile, moved from GQ to MPSIMS.
I have many questions. Chief amongst them is how many years it will take me to learn how to start new threads in the appropriate forum in the new SDMB-Discourse.
They sell a gadget for that.
$26,000.00
The Best Topic Posting Gadget.
We throw every catalog into recycling as soon as it comes out of the mailbox. I honestly don’t know why these companies continue to go to the expense of printing and mailing these. My father was a huge catalog shopper, but his generation has died off (or will soon).
Please make a minimal attempt at misspelling a word in your thread title.
But what is The Question?
The Life, The Universe and The Everything.
That sounds like The Ology.
But they’ve got such a nice hummingbird feeder, just the thing for the OP!
I think you’re thinking of Colibri. 
Wait, your avatar isn’t a hummingbird?
ETA: It’s a bagpipe! Ah, makes sense.
The catalog has a contraption called a “Self-Contained Hootenanny” for $54,000. It looks and sounds like this:
Orchestreon/ Hootenany - YouTube
That’s one item that they can aptly call The Self-Contained Hootenanny. It’s not like anyone else is going to be dumb enough to make one.
They’re older and slightly more common than you think.
I saw one once in a museum or something pretty darn close at least.
Ok, let me restate that. It’s not like anyone else thinks there’s a modern retail market for a $54,000 orchestrion.
