Well hubby cooks, cleans, does laundry, yard work, and most shopping. I don’t send him out unsupervised clothes shopping because I don’t enjoy wearing tight see-through purple clothing all the time.
I would buy Arco pencils they were the best.
I also want something that can let me see and scratch my own back.
I want a vacation in Dream Park (Larry Niven and Steve Barnes). Even going on a fatripper special would be worth it.
There is, or was, such a thing. It was a mug with two parts and you kept one part in the freezer. When you’re ready for a cold one, you just took out the cold inner bit, and poured in your soda or juice or milk. It was dandy for making Kool Aid slushies. You had an instant slushy drink. This might actually be TOO cold for what you want, though.
Hey, Lawmill, they’ve got instant drink coolers – or they used to. Wine shops have (had?) them.
You would pick out the wine you liked, and if you wanted it chilled, they would dunk it in a gizmo filled with liquid (probably H2) for – I dunno – something like a minute. Sure enough… chilled vino. I think it worked with untrasonic vibrations, but don’t quote me.
You know, if you put raw egg yolk on your face and let it dry, then wash it off, it gets rid of acne. If done regularly, you won’t have to worry about it again.
-The Shadowed One-
*Spoon Candy pudding
*123 Geletin
*Think-N-Frosty malt mix
*a “Dandy” hamburger from Randys drive in
*“Golden Nuggets” from Mcdonalds
(All foods from my youth)
Oh, and I’d like to buy my childhhod back. Just to enjoy it again for just one day! I’d pay anything! Anything!!!
I want a pistol sized electro-magnetic pulse gun.
I would use it to stop any car that pissed me off in traffic. Harmless roadrage (at least to the people, can’t say the same for the car involved). One shot and their car would just shut off and slowly coast to a stop while I drive away smiling.
I wish I could buy a long sleeved t-shirt. NOT the heavy sweatshirt type, but the same light knit as regular t-shirts, just with long sleeves.
Lumpy, your search is over.
Sierra Trading Post sells Hanes Beefy-Ts, which are good quality t-shirts, and come in a both short and long-sleeved versions. This company sells overstocks and seconds, so the prices are very good. I have bought quite a few things from them and have been pleased with the quality. Obviously, if you aren’t a bargain hunter, you could find the first quality ones somewhere, as well.
…then blow the hell up!!! ::maniacal laughter::
There was a show on The Discovery Channel about just such a device (and other similar devices) being developed for law enforcement agencies (not the ‘blowing up’ part, though).
SaxFace:
Then the clothing thing is not a problem. Umm, I guess the, uhh, ‘wife’ thing is though. I say this with the upmost sincerity: oops!! :eek: (I do apologize.)
re: cold drinks (or something to that effect)
When I want to cool off some drinks fast, I use a trick that I got from watching my parents make homemade ice cream. I put in the sink the cans or bottles that I want chilled (standing upright), fill the sink ~3/4 up the bottles/cans w/ ice, put in just enough water to reach the top of the ice, and sprinkle salt on the ice (rinse the lid/opening before opening). The salt is supposed to lower the temp a bit, and the coldwater bath is excellent at conducting heat away from the cans or bottles. It works very quickly.
It seems the OP was asking about stuff that could be made and sold, such as “the burnt pieces of cheese on the edge of a pizza”, and not total fantasy items like the the Star Trek halodeck (sp?). In the spirit of the OP I put in my vote for the following:
-pizza pepperoni - same taste and texture as pepperoni just picked off a hot slice, but without the annoying cheese and crust and stuff
-spices in recipe-ready sizes - a teaspoon of nutmeg just for tonight’s recipe when you know it’s going to be years before you use the spice again
-used cars with “new car” smell - I throw this one in so you don’t think I’m totally obsessed with food and drink
-premium wine from street corner vending machines - for those times when you just have to have another bottle of Chateau Lafite-Rothchild and you can’t find the keys to the car so you can drive to the wine shop
Okay, I realize I’m verging on fantasy myself, but you can get liquor from vending machines here in Japan.
I think I had heard something about a microwave cooler. Essentially this is what people had been talking about. It’s not actually microwave, but you get the idea: as quickly as a m/w can heat things up, this can cool them down. Can’t say where or when I heard this, just that it immediately came to mind when I saw the “wish.”
Myself, I’m all for those pizza pepperonis…yum.
…and a leather couch that you won’t stick to in the humid summer months reagardless of how much a/c you have…
…and my very own snow making machine that would work any time (ie. the summer). Oh the joy, the rapture! The very thought of piles and piles of snow outside my front door whenever I wanted…<sigh>