An iPod mini. I love it, but no one else does.
How many do you have? last time I moved, I transported 251 boxes of them.
Dammit. “Nasty Pig Thing” is now up there with “Halvsie, the Two-legged Dog” for making me laugh uncontrollably at really stupid times.
A Mr. Potato Head?
People ask, and I just say, “Well, I was an only child.” Then they nod knowingly.
Can’t think of anything else off the top of my head.
i-what?
Not my purchase, but a gift – the Ove Glove. They sound lame, but those things are awesome. I have to remind myself that things that come out of the oven actually are hot and I need to be careful with them. They feel faintly warm at most with the glove.
I need to get another, so I have one for each hand.
Not really “lame” per-se, just useless…
a 86 piece GeoMag magnetic building kit (it’s got these magnetic rods and stainless steel spheres you snap together to make geometric shapes and build things), sort of a high-tech but limited Erector set
magnets are cool anyway
I put an unreasonable amount of time into finding and buying Valentine’s day socks and underpants this year. I had never owned such things before and it became an inexplicable compulsion this year.
I knew my window of opportunity was small and I had to take advantage of it while it lasted. Mind you these had to be the RIGHT socks and underpants. “No that won’t do,” I found myself thinking often, “the proper Valentine’s sock needs more pink”…“less sparkles” … “not such bitty hearts” etc etc.
Very strange, but they give me disproportionate satisfaction and delight when I wear them.
I don’t know why I’m admitting this, but about 12 years ago I bought the Anthony Robbins tape set. It was almost totally useless.
I’ve bought a few things I thought would be fun toys, like little R/C cars that wound up on the shelf after about 5 minutes of use.
You should be ashamed, Sam. Ashamed.
Late at night, as I was drifting off to sleep, I could hear the sonorous voice of Tony Robbins wafting quietly from Gorgonzola’s headphones.
I believe she had a thing for his freakishly large teeth.
I bought a replica victoria cross on Ebay once. I think I bid aroudnd $30 for it, but once it made it across the border, with duty, shipping, and whatnot, I ended up paying twice that. I thought it was cool to carry around in my pocket for a day or two, but it then made its way into a drawer and hasn’t seen daylight since. I have no idea where it is now. When I bid on it I thought it would be cool to frame and hang on my wall but that idea quickly faded when I realized I didn’t have a frame to put it in.
Oh well, live an learn. Haven’t bought anything off Ebay since.
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
i’m going to have nightmares from that image! get it away! GET IT AWAY!!!
:eek:
ahem
probably the most “lame” thing i’ve ever bought is a pair of shoes that are a bit too small – can’t wait to take them off whenever i try to wear them.
what?
I’m sure I’ve bought tons of shameful junk over the years, but the best is something I’m picking up next week:
An LED-infested keyboard, mouse, and mousepad. I’m even considering getting the speakers, but that’s just nuts.
A buddy ended up with the contents of an upscale men’s clothing store. Well, not all the contents, just the stuff that didn’t sell in the “Going out of business” sale. Stuff like plaid old-men’s hats and lime green Sansabelt slacks.
And I bought a smoking jacket. A really fancy smoking jacket, with silk lapels, crushed velvet or some damn thing outer, silk inside. It was tagged $225 I think, I gave him $10.
But I don’t smoke. And I look so out of place in a smoking jacket. And to complete my ensemble, I got a suede hat, one of those flat little hats that English gents wear while driving their Austin Healey…or something. Golfers wear them, or Jackie Stewart. But it’s a very nice one, I think it’s a Stetson. And it looks absolutely ridiculous on me, or I should say I look absolutely ridiculous in it, about like I do in a smoking jacket.
I’d probably look better if I had a pipe and a bunch of books. Maybe I can work a deal with Gabe…