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I found this propped up against something, as if the sorter at the store was daring me to buy it. Unfortunately I had no money, so a friend surprised me at work with it a few days later.
I kept it in the bag until I got home. No sense causing a ruckus.
I found a pair of Duck Slippers. But not the kind that look like your feet are ducks; these are yellow with orange duck bills across the tops and eyes in front of your ankles, so your feet look like a duck’s head. They fit pretty well, too, and they’re nice and warm. And they were only two dollars!
I found a pencil/pen holder, or maybe it was a tall cup. Either way it was shaped like one of the Easter Island statues but I bought it because it reminded me of the cover of The Divison Bell. I broke it after a few weeks trying to bring it up to my dorm. Oh well.
Years ago, I bought an entire Illinois Corrections Officer’s uniform. It made a nice Halloween costume, but I wished I had a buddy I could spring from the joint.
I picked up a book of the Billboard top 100 song lists from the 1970’s. I paid a whole dollar for it and thought it would be interesting reading. A few weeks later I did a Google search of the book, the first hit was an Amazon.com listing for the same book, someone was asking $500 for it. Out of curiosity to see if the book was worth that much, I listed it on eBay with a $99.99 opening bid. It sold for $425.
I once found a stuffed cobra, awesome for impressing all my Goth friends. Kept it for years and years.
I found a green glass bottle, which in addition to the main chamber had a corked spherical side chamber. I assume this is to store wine with ice without the two mixing, but it kind of looks like the early stages of a home made bong project.
Gee, thanks. You know, I could easily have died happy never having seen that.
Ohh. I remember those. It was part of a whole series of cookbooks. I think it might have been a book-of-the-month kind of thing. My parents had probably 15-20 of them.
That Ukrainian cuisine looks pretty good.
I found an autoharp. The next day I came in and it was gone. I found the tuning key in with some vases, and thought somebody is going to miss this. The guy that bought the autoharp came in asking the clerk if they had an autoharp key, to which I said over here. You probably think it strange I recognized the key.
I find it strange when they have empty beer bottles in with the vases. They sell anything.
I find it strange when they are trying to sell a preowned antivirus software, that is over 10 years old, and requires a subscription for it’s use.
I find it strange when I find an ALO disk for sale.
I find it strange that I found items that go in the baths of elderly people that they sit on and get used to clean up places I won’t mention. I wouldn’t touch it for anything.
I’ve found breast pumps. It’s not disgusting, just strange.
I didn’t click, but have seen it in the past. I agree with you.
Oh, thank you. If I worked with you, there would have, indeed, been a ruckus!
I haven’t even finished the thread, but you just gave me my first belly laugh of the day! Thank you!
I bought a Christmas ornament. it’s a ceramic disc-like thing, with German writing on one side and a lumberjack scene on the other. One guy has an axe slung over his shoulder, and the other one has his back to you at a 3/4 angle and is peeing against a tree. You can see the ‘stream’. I thought that I was just seeing things, but everyone I’ve showed it to has said “Hey! that guy is peeing against the tree!”
Now that I think of it, the person I get for the SDMB Secret Santa will be the lucky recipient of a Christmas ornament.
Can you give us the written please. It would be interesting I’d think. Unless it’s something like Stille Nacht.
I especially like the glistening slices of pork roast reclining on the mini rug.
I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be bread - but that is Lileks-worthy photography!
I had a friend who told me they bought a bottle that had some sort of macreme around it. They bought it as a joke and then when they got home they noticed it seemed to be filled with sand or something. After pouring it out it had some chunks of bone and ashed. Someone seemed to have donated a relative.
On the less oogy front one of the place by me has a bunch of empty minibottles of Grand Marnier in the case. With the logos and everything. Not fintage, like I could to buy one right now and stick it in there. This same one has an 8mm movie called “Lent a go go” which made me with I had a way of playing it.
Last year as a white elephant I got a 2 1/2’ tall poorly made wooden ship with the word “Acupulco” written on the sail and poorly painted skulls and crossbones. It is proudly displayed in my office.
