# The Tackiest Thing I've Ever Seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 18, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307 "2015-05-18T15:54:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/41 "2015-05-20T17:00:18Z")
I really need to work “clam shell copulation enclosure” into more of my everyday speech. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/42 "2015-05-20T18:21:12Z")
Branson, Missouri. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/43 "2015-05-20T20:59:30Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > Pfft. [There used to be a house in St Paul that had used shoes nailed to the entire exterior of the two story abode.](http://activerain.trulia.com/blogsview/17837/the-shoe-house) I remember a house in La Crosse (or maybe Onalaska) that’s painted pink, but because it’s stucco, it looks like a giant cake. So far as I know, it’s still there. I can’t find a picture and I have no idea where in the city or suburbs it is. I’m only up there once a year or so and I don’t do a whole lot of driving around. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/44 "2015-05-20T21:06:27Z")
How about [The Pickler Mansion](http://faulktoncity.org/vertical/Sites/%7B3F76F131-E1DD-4355-A443-6343F44D291F%7D/uploads/pickler_mansion.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/45 "2015-05-21T03:00:26Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > My California Costco sells plenty of alcohol. Wine, beer, Vodka, skull Tequila, that champagne with the neat [decorative copper-strapped bottles](http://urbanmogullife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/1-1294885436.jpg)…you name it. > > The only restriction I’ve seen posted (aside from the age limits) are that it’s not eligible for their “bulk purchases” program—so you can’t literally buy a prepacked semi-trailer full of liquor. From them, anyway. That champagne bottle design is just about the tackiest thing I’ve ever seen, and it is not improved by the grammar mistake in the name of the champagne. Perhaps the French were making fun of the people who are crazy enough to buy their crap. ‘‘Nevada’s Own Champagne’’! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/46 "2015-05-21T03:42:57Z")
I grew up in West Texas. Jesus, where do I begin? Although the Baby Jesus butt plug comes close to beating anything I saw (NSFW): [http://divine-interventions.com/religioustoys.php#babyjesus](http://divine-interventions.com/religioustoys.php#babyjesus) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/47 "2015-05-21T04:18:53Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I suppose this may be taken the wrong way, but I think the tacky thing is thinking golf is somehow above commercialization. Its a game like any other. If it were played in an arena, you’d have banners along the side of the field or ads on jerseys At the risk of falling prey to whoosh, professional golfers are already walking ads for golf supply companies - balls, clubs, whatever. It would be neat to qualify as an amateur for a major tournament like the U.S. Open, and show up in an outfit somewhat the worse for wear, and a cap that says “Willie’s Pro Shop”. Pro soccer is the reigning Tacky in sports, for example the [Columbus Barbasols](http://www.dispatch.com/content/graphics/archive/crew/crew-uniform.jpg?__scale=w:660,h:500,t:1,c:ffffff,q:90,r:1). ---
**Author:** ![Dibbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dibbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dibbs)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/48 "2015-05-22T08:01:24Z")
Those type of airplane idiots fly around and around at Michigan Stadium for the home games, at least they used to. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/49 "2015-05-22T12:38:29Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > Quick Hijack… you must be a “neighbor” of my Mom. She lives in a retirement village just across the street from the high school (Mecklenburg). She even mentioned the planes flying over with banners. You know, now that you mention it, I was out the other day and saw an elderly potato… ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/50 "2015-05-22T12:58:42Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I’m going to vote for “In Memory Of…” stickers on rear windows of cars. Is there a tackier way to memorialize a loved one?? Definitely, if they died in a car crash. A cross at not quite a right angle, almost completely covered in spray paint, festooned with hot pink plastic flowers and the shimmering remains of a mylar balloon. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/51 "2015-05-22T21:43:13Z")
Sitting in a commercial airliner on July 20th, 1989, and they we’re showing “Good Morning America” on the movie screen. Here’s the [video loop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU-x3g-JKHg)they were playing over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![Apollon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@Apollon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollon)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/52 "2015-05-22T21:45:18Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > Purple Flamingos > > The pink ones are tacky enough, but _purple_? Consider yourself lucky! I had half a jar of canned pineapple, and half a jar of canned cherries the other day. I didn’t want to have to half-empty jars standing around (I abhor inefficiency), so I poured the contents of the one into the other. The next day, the pineapples had turned purple. I felt like a cheap shemale prostitute when I ate them. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/53 "2015-05-23T13:20:22Z")
The Dodi and Diana memorial in Harrods. It is impossible to over emphasise the tackiness. ---
**Author:** ![Apollon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@Apollon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollon)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307/54 "2015-05-23T17:29:25Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > The Dodi and Diana memorial in Harrods. It is impossible to over emphasise the tackiness. The very fact that someone felt it necessary to build a memorial for that spoiled bitch and her pimp, is in itself tacky, no matter the aesthetics of the monument. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tackiest-thing-ive-ever-seen/720307.md?page=2)