# Useless crap that you want. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 12, 2002, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608 "2002-05-12T07:46:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/101 "2002-11-30T00:22:47Z")
…Green laser pointer? ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/102 "2002-11-30T00:41:06Z")
I want those spiderman gloves that shoot silly string. ---
**Author:** ![the\_keek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@the\_keek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_keek)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/103 "2002-11-30T05:01:31Z")
Okay, my brother has one of[these](http://www.plantraco.com/main.html) blimp things and I want one too! The Desktop Rover is pretty cool also. ---
**Author:** ![Gerome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Gerome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerome)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/104 "2002-11-30T05:39:19Z")
I want a Master Shake (from Aqua Teen Hunger Force) air freshener. A ticket to the Big Day Out would also be nice. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/105 "2002-11-30T16:11:42Z")
This is so humiliating, but I covet one of those stupid roto-hairbrushes they are currently hawking on infomercials. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/106 "2002-11-30T17:15:37Z")
My own Antonov Condor. A French 155mm GPF Howitzer. A girlfriend. A typewriter (Oh, wait, I’ve got one. Two in fact.) My old collection of Betamax cassettes. Bruce Campbell’s chin. Pristine film prints of the missing _Dr. Who_ episodes and the unrecorded episodes of _The Quatermass Experiment_. And a early-model Pentium computer with MS-DOS 6.2 so I can run my old computer games properly. ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/107 "2002-11-30T18:21:14Z")
A flowbie. An oscilloscope. A fedora. And, a friend of mine is serving drinks tonight at a party that Roy Romanow is supposedly attending, so anything he’s touched. ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/108 "2002-11-30T18:50:52Z")
I want a t-shirt that reads “Dr. Phil Sucks”. Can’t you buy those somewhere ? Ya have to admit it would be a good conversation starter. ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/109 "2002-11-30T22:34:28Z")
My daughter wants pointy ears and a one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater. I want an original Dammit troll doll with two heads–not the new-fangled Russ dolls–the original Norwegian Dammit ones. And a house elf, but that wouldn’t really be useless, would it? ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/110 "2002-12-01T00:34:53Z")
I want a wireless thermometer/hygrometer, so I can see the temperature and humidity outdoors from the comfort of my desk. Actually, I ordered one this afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/111 "2002-12-01T01:46:58Z")
a real, honest to god basket hilted broadsword and a case of military grade smoke grenades. Just because. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/112 "2002-12-01T02:26:57Z")
I want an air compressor. A useful tool, certainly, provided that a) you have air tools with which it can be used, b) you have a place to use these tools, and c) you have something to use these tools on. Since I don’t really fulfill any of these conditions, I’d say that qualifies as useless. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/113 "2002-12-01T02:36:10Z")
[This](http://www.gadgets.co.uk/digi_binocs.html) or [this](http://www.pentaxuser.co.uk/pages/news/nws_digibino.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Sxyzzx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sxyzzx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sxyzzx)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/114 "2002-12-01T03:28:18Z")
A Dremel [rotary tool](http://www.dremel.com/productdisplay/Display.asp?SKU=395). I don’t have anything to sand, polish, grind, or engrave, but I want a rotary tool. And a green laser pointer. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/115 "2002-12-01T04:17:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sxyzzx \* > \*\*A Dremel [rotary tool](http://www.dremel.com/productdisplay/Display.asp?SKU=395). I don’t have anything to sand, polish, grind, or engrave, but I want a rotary tool. > > \*\* I got one for Christmas about 5 years ago. I love tools. I have lots of tools. I wanted the Dremel too real bad. I have probably used it 5 times since I got it. I want one of [these.](http://www.rotozip.com/tools/solaris.phtml) I can’t really think of anything I really need it for at this time. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/116 "2002-12-01T06:36:22Z")
I have to admit, I went shopping at American Science & Surplus recently. My husband insists that the Touchabubbles are completely useless. I think they’re fun, though. ---
**Author:** ![lazymexicanamerican](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecb155/32.png) [@lazymexicanamerican](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazymexicanamerican)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/117 "2002-12-01T06:55:16Z")
I want a… HUGE stuffed baboon… i’d put it in the corner of my room and itd prolly take up most of it but who wouldn’t want a dead stuffed animal? ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/118 "2002-12-01T21:39:02Z")
[I still have not gotten the Lego Mindsotrms set](http://www.robotstore.com/catalog/list.asp?cid=9) However, I am still very mad at Lego for their inexcusably high prices. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/119 "2002-12-01T23:35:21Z")
I also want one of those old toy sets meant for little boys with all the metal, what were those called? You know what I’m talking about? If someone said the name I’d remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608/120 "2002-12-01T23:44:14Z")
I want \*[a plush Cthulhu](http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/plush_cthulhu.html) \*a cross stitch program for my PC \*a boyfriend and/or manslave who will do dishes and clean house for me \*my two front teeth [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-crap-that-you-want/108608.md?page=7)