# What's the most jaw-droppingly tacky thing you can buy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 7, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070 "2007-01-07T18:55:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/1 "2007-01-07T18:55:10Z")
This season, I vote for the pop-up [5th Anniversary 9/11 Proof](http://www.wtcproof.com/?cid=285029), which I see advertised over and over and over again on TV, and each time I see it, I am gob-smacked all over again, as my brain, in self-defense, blots it out of my memory. So so dip into the [Harriet Carter catalog](http://www.harrietcarter.com/) of your minds, and find something to beat the 9/11 proof out of my head! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/2 "2007-01-07T18:59:45Z")
Maybe someone will design Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” bedding? Dunno if that’s tacky enough… ---
**Author:** ![badkittypriestess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@badkittypriestess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badkittypriestess)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/3 "2007-01-07T19:08:05Z")
My vote on Harriet is either the ducky floss dispenser or the cotton ball bunny! 😃 It looks like you are pulling cotton balls out of the bunnies ass. (snicker, snicker) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/4 "2007-01-07T19:08:06Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] Maybe someone will design Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” bedding? Dunno if that’s tacky enough… [/QUOTE] No, no, I mean something _real_ you can link to. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/5 "2007-01-07T19:10:06Z")
Is [this](http://www.judaism.com/display.asp?type=quicksearch&etn=IIBHH) tacky, hysterical, or simply insane? **Plush Plagues Bag Includes all 10 plagues! Keeps the kids entertained during Passover**. My two favorites… An icky boil on a piece of flesh! A very sad head - for death of the first born! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/6 "2007-01-07T19:11:52Z")
I once had a job of going door to door to raise funds for an environmental group. In one neighborhood, I was starting to get a little freaked out because every door, every single door, had a decoration. Made of wood and hand painted, each door had either a goose or a teddy bear. Then I came to the coup de gras; A teddy bear riding a goose. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/7 "2007-01-07T19:12:18Z")
I can’t link to this item, because I don’t know who made it or where it was purchased. My inlaws give each other gag gifrs at Xmas. A couple of years ago, BIL got his dad a little plastic cow full of brown jelly beans. You push down on the head of the cow, and it poops out a jelly bean. Is that tacky enough? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/8 "2007-01-07T19:16:00Z")
[QUOTE=LilyoftheValley] **Plush Plagues Bag Includes all 10 plagues! Keeps the kids entertained during Passover**. [/QUOTE] Omigod, that’s so cute, I want my Bag o’ Plagues! ---
**Author:** ![badkittypriestess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@badkittypriestess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badkittypriestess)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/9 "2007-01-07T19:16:09Z")
uhhh, just saw a toe straightener on Harriet Carter…why?why?why? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/10 "2007-01-07T19:18:19Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] … Then I came to the coup de gras; A teddy bear riding a goose. [/QUOTE] So was the _gras_ goose fat or bear fat? ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/11 "2007-01-07T19:23:47Z")
How about “The Bulge?” [Embarrassing Items for Men](http://www.shopinprivate.com/daburwipform.html) The perfect gift for the Brandon Teena in your life. ---
**Author:** ![badkittypriestess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@badkittypriestess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badkittypriestess)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/12 "2007-01-07T19:31:49Z")
[QUOTE=Sonia Montdore] How about “The Bulge?” [http://www.shopinprivate.com/daburwipform.html](http://www.shopinprivate.com/daburwipform.html) The perfect gift for the Brandon Teena in your life. [/QUOTE] OMFG!!! that gave me thr giggles!!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/13 "2007-01-07T19:32:26Z")
ok, ok, not real life, but the womens leg/lamp in **a christmas story(tale?)** is the tackiest thing I’ve ever seen, ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/14 "2007-01-07T19:39:01Z")
[QUOTE=outlierrn] ok, ok, not real life, but the womens leg/lamp in **a christmas story(tale?)** is the tackiest thing I’ve ever seen, [/QUOTE] Oh ye of little faith. > **[Leg Lamps: Red Rider Leg Lamps](https://www.redriderleglamps.com/?gclid=CIWXwqaHz4kCFRoygQod2UADNA)** > > Shop iconic Red Rider Leg Lamps inspired by ‘A Christmas Story.’ Find full-size, desktop, and night light versions, plus unique holiday decor and collectibles. Enjoy free shipping on orders over $100 ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/15 "2007-01-07T19:42:23Z")
[QUOTE=outlierrn] ok, ok, not real life, but the womens leg/lamp in **a christmas story(tale?)** is the tackiest thing I’ve ever seen, [/QUOTE] Good news, **Outlierrn** , the leg lamp _is_ available in real life. Some guy brought Ralphie’s house (the house that featured in exterior shots in the movie) and has opened up a “Christmas Story” museum inside it. The guy is having leg lamps manufactured and is selling them in the museum gift shop. I read an article about it last month; if I can find it I’ll post a link further down in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/16 "2007-01-07T19:55:07Z")
[QUOTE=Sonia Montdore] … if I can find it I’ll post a link further down in this thread. [/QUOTE] Oops, **Shagnasty** got in here with news of the Leg Lamp ahead of me. For anyone who’s interested in the museum story, you can read about the “Christmas Story” Museum by following the links in **Shag** ’s post. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/17 "2007-01-07T20:06:13Z")
[Underwear](http://www.cafepress.com/landoverbaptist/429363) is always a welcome gift. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/18 "2007-01-07T20:07:07Z")
Behold: [The Bradford Exchange](http://bradfordexchange.collectiblestoday.com/ct/store/brad?External=Y&cm_ven=Search&cm_cat=Google&cm_pla=Performics&cm_ite=Keyword). I’m particularly…impressed? by the [Dale Earnhardt Christmas Village Collection](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-917059.jsp?dale+earnhardt&endeca=true). ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/19 "2007-01-07T20:07:30Z")
[The Singing Bass](http://cgi.ebay.com/SINGING-FISH-PLAQUE-OF-BIG-MOUTH-BILLY-BASS_W0QQitemZ140070125141QQihZ004QQcategoryZ38238QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting) always struck me as pretty tacky. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/20 "2007-01-07T20:15:48Z")
A friend of mine has one of [these.](http://www.spencersonline.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/products.detail/productID/79c9f29c-4e98-4136-ad53-0df1e5edf9e9/) For a better understanding of just how tacky this is, watch the video. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070.md?page=2)