# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/21 "2007-01-07T20:19:31Z")
Wow, 19 posts and no mention of trailer hitch balls? (Seen [here](http://www.bullsballs.com/suv/accessories.html) and discussed [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=380435).) How much more hideously tacky can you get? Upon preview, I think **freckafree** may have answered my question. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/22 "2007-01-07T20:20:37Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] I’m particularly…impressed? by the [Dale Earnhardt Christmas Village Collection](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-917059.jsp?dale+earnhardt&endeca=true). [/QUOTE] Oh, my god. But, then… [Thomas Kinkade Garden Of Prayer Travel Umbrella](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-1601630001.jsp?location=LowerBody_Last+Chance) [This, for example, does not remind me of anything I would put in my house.](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-1400229001.jsp?_/_prod/_120/_/_/_1062&endeca=true&abbr=tk&FP3) [It lights up.](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-100570001.jsp?_/_prod/_120/_/_6/_1062/_/_Y&endeca=true&abbr=tk) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/23 "2007-01-07T20:27:06Z")
About 1968, at the now-defunct Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey, I purchased the tackiest thing I have ever seen. A sno-globe of The Crucifixion. The flakes swirling merrily around Jesus’s tortured body give the scene a truly macabre air. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/24 "2007-01-07T20:29:42Z")
[QUOTE=LilyoftheValley] 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! [/QUOTE] Oh, no. You haven’t mined the depths of tacky Judaica until you’ve seen [this](http://www.judaism.com/display.asp?etn=CBEAJ), [this](http://www.judaism.com/display.asp?etn=CBEBB), or [/url=“[http://www.judaism.com/search.asp?nt=aaci&sctn=910](http://www.judaism.com/search.asp?nt=aaci&sctn=910)”]these. The first two go to flashing flag pins, the first to an Israeli flag, the second to a flashing Israeli flag crossed with a US flag. The third link goes to a section of Jewish-themed stuff for pets. There’s nothing like having Fido chewing on a stuffed dreidel with little doggie icons where the letters ought to go. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/25 "2007-01-07T20:39:59Z")
Upon closer examination of the link provided in the OP, I have unearthed several more products that probably deserve to be reburied. Theres the[Whitey Tighty Farting Keychain](http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/Whitey-Tighty-Farting-Keychain/productID/f7dd33d3-e44f-4bd9-bf11-78827b1372f3/categoryID/31dfc08f-cae1-49d1-ba13-1abb981b70be/), the [High Heel Cake Server](http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/High-Heel-Server/productID/6033d634-25d7-4908-8146-f388bd6c7597/categoryID/c293aa19-0eb6-452b-a2e9-2129738d42cb/), the [Beer Mug Lights](http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/Beer-Mug-Lights/productID/ea94a44c-1a62-4d4b-9787-45a2d4078683/categoryID/0686b5fb-22b2-420f-8094-1f4ed91da2f9/), the [Tree Face](http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/Tree-Face/productID/487f2cc1-f812-401e-aa6d-b23f6b5830bc/categoryID/0686b5fb-22b2-420f-8094-1f4ed91da2f9/) and equally stupid [Leprechaun Face](http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/Leprechaun-Face/productID/9bd9e2b7-b7e8-4628-9a95-1cf265bc50b0/categoryID/0686b5fb-22b2-420f-8094-1f4ed91da2f9/), the [Spooky Bride and Groom](http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/Bride--Groom/productID/334a36d5-efec-4d21-b6f5-c01027db34fc/categoryID/0686b5fb-22b2-420f-8094-1f4ed91da2f9/), the [Sunbathing Pigs](http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/Sunbathing-Pigs/productID/1ee7dc6c-a6a4-45f4-9c97-fc95a4467c9b/categoryID/0686b5fb-22b2-420f-8094-1f4ed91da2f9/), the[Farting Teddy](http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/Remote-Farting-Teddy/productID/785bfeb2-9985-448f-a82a-e8e153559d97/categoryID/8a85e460-958b-4a41-9f37-5f460aa0092d/) and (unfortunately) the list goes on. I’d dredge up more of this stuff, but I can feel my faith in humanity waining as I realize that people actually spend money on this stuff. God help us. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/26 "2007-01-07T20:53:47Z")
Dear Og. This [remote control holder](http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/Remote-Control-Holder/productID/d1136603-adf1-4472-af67-ef49852795ca/categoryID/107e2f70-ff73-448b-9c7a-960fca072e99/) looks just like the pug my grandma used to have. She’d probably love it. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/27 "2007-01-07T20:57:16Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] Oh, my god. But, then… [Thomas Kinkade Garden Of Prayer Travel Umbrella](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-1601630001.jsp?location=LowerBody_Last+Chance) [This, for example, does not remind me of anything I would put in my house.](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-1400229001.jsp?_/_prod/_120/_/_/_1062&endeca=true&abbr=tk&FP3) [It lights up.](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-100570001.jsp?_/_prod/_120/_/_6/_1062/_/_Y&endeca=true&abbr=tk) [/QUOTE] They all come with a certificate of authenticity to assert that Kinkade has personally peed on every single one! ---
**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, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/28 "2007-01-07T20:58:13Z")
Nothing says Amish like an _electric_ [lamp](http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/Courtship-Lamp/productID/b0e2e2a6-8569-437f-a6ef-befe48bb5cb0/categoryID/026155e6-9f2d-4094-a6ec-b933788d4116/). 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/29 "2007-01-07T20:58:26Z")
Okay, no they don’t, really. They probably should, though… ---
**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, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/30 "2007-01-07T21:39:18Z")
Oh, wouldn’t it be great if we could buy a house and furnish it with all of these, and open it as a Museum of Bad Taste? We could have guides working there, clad in Harriet Carter regalia, like the [With You Were Hair](http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/Hair-Hat/productID/a705b73c-8db9-4af6-b52c-da350a2e1010/categoryID/084bd378-c1e9-47d0-822a-9e115dcfa893/) hat, and the [clever T-shirts](http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/Granddog-Tee/productID/cba793d0-0da9-4e41-ace9-df2a2e3c4bc6/categoryID/e846f393-c3df-4e6b-b355-5dddc3658faf/)! ---
**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, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/31 "2007-01-07T21:54:33Z")
I am ashamed (well, not really) to say that I nearly bought one of [these](http://cgi.ebay.ie/FUN-NOVELTY-BOOBIE-BREAST-MUG-GREAT-GIFT-IDEA_W0QQitemZ330070340137QQihZ014QQcategoryZ14899QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) in Las Vegas for a friend of mine that is quite the breast man. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/32 "2007-01-07T21:58:57Z")
The Mad TV version: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CggK30N5x7o) ---
**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, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/33 "2007-01-07T22:09:06Z")
[QUOTE=KSO] The Mad TV version: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CggK30N5x7o/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/CggK30N5x7o?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [/QUOTE] Oh, _snap_. Do you suppose Lillian Vernon and Harriet Carter live next door to each other and hate each other’s guts, like a tacky Midwestern Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/34 "2007-01-07T22:26:51Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] [This, for example, does not remind me of anything I would put in my house.](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-1400229001.jsp?_/_prod/_120/_/_/_1062&endeca=true&abbr=tk&FP3) [/QUOTE] WINNAH! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/35 "2007-01-07T22:28:45Z")
[QUOTE=if6was9] Nothing says Amish like an _electric_ [lamp](http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/Courtship-Lamp/productID/b0e2e2a6-8569-437f-a6ef-befe48bb5cb0/categoryID/026155e6-9f2d-4094-a6ec-b933788d4116/). 😛 [/QUOTE] You apparently have never driven on Rte. 30 east of Lancaster and seen the tourist-trap store called “Amish Stuff”. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/36 "2007-01-07T22:41:54Z")
I have yet to see anything that meets the deep-down tackiness of the pop-up World Trade Center coins, as mentioned in the OP. And they’re advertised on TV! Even Faith Mountain isn’t advertised on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/37 "2007-01-07T22:58:24Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] I have yet to see anything that meets the deep-down tackiness of the pop-up World Trade Center coins, as mentioned in the OP. [/QUOTE] Yes, at least Kinkster Mountain doesn’t claim to contain a piece of the True Cross. Pop-Up Coin: “WARNING! MAY CONTAIN TRACE AMOUNTS OF DEAD RELATIVES.” ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/38 "2007-01-07T23:40:45Z")
I guess I am just a traditionalist. I know a person who bought a felt painting of Elvis and John Wayne shaking hands in heaven (well, in the clouds) and watching over a group of soldiers deployed in a desert somewhere. He said he purchased it in New Mexico. I believe Tucumcari. He said a guy was selling them from his van along one of the main streets. He said he got a great deal. He said the man wanted $100 but he got him down to $75. ---
**Author:** ![sci\_girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@sci\_girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sci_girl)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/39 "2007-01-08T00:08:30Z")
I think [this](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-116094001.jsp?_/_prod/_88/_/_/_1070&endeca=true&abbr=wl&FP1) tomahawk deserves a mention. Fitting four wolves, an indian and two eagles onto a single 12-inc piece of home decor results in a dangerously high cliche level. And with all the feathers and crap it looks like it was made from owl pellets. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/40 "2007-01-08T00:46:16Z")
I think if you’d graft a remote control fart machine inside a singing bass, you could sell quite a few. I once lived down the street from a lady whose lawn had a concrete Jesus with thorns all around His exposed heart, and a garish purple robe. At His feet was a semicircle of cutesy little plywood-and-faux-fleece sheep. One was black and the rest were white. They weren’t in the same scale; next to Jesus, the sheep looked like wee little fluffy terriers. After all this time, you can still buy a window sticker with angel wings and a halo on a big number 3. This signifies ongoing worship of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Sr., who died in a last lap crash several years ago. Dale, Jr. finds this embarrassing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070.md?page=3)