# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/81 "2007-01-09T07:45:57Z")
[QUOTE=mrklutz] Behold, the [Hello Kitty waffle maker](http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-1/qid=1168294165/ref=sr_1_1/601-6951500-5580929?ie=UTF8&asin=B00020QJDU). Tremble in fear. [/QUOTE] Oh yeah? My mother\* bought me a Hello Kitty toaster for Christmas\*. She said she did it just to see the look on my face. It’s in my kitchen. On the counter. In all its hideous glory. My toast has vaguely cat-shaped heads on it. It is the beginning of my demise. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/82 "2007-01-09T08:17:57Z")
_sigh_ On the Hello Kitty site, click “Hello Kitty” at the left… one of the first links is a HK Squier Fender Stratocaster guitar. I don’t know if it’s tacky, but it’s definitely sad. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/83 "2007-01-09T13:40:12Z")
Now, there is intentionally tacky and there is the innocently tacky, such as what Eve started this thread with. I propose that this is of the latter group: [Tee Time Toilet Potty Putter](http://www.amazon.com/Tee-Time-Toilet-Potty-Puter/dp/B000EN0SSC) ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/84 "2007-01-09T15:33:05Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] I hope I didn’t skip a post and miss one of these. [This,](http://cgi.ebay.com/JFK-SALT-PEPPER-SHAKER-SET-JAPAN-1962_W0QQitemZ140070104087QQihZ004QQcategoryZ13928QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) ladies and gentlemen, is the most tacky thing you can buy. I’m not certain whether it is the salt or the pepper that comes out of little holes in the back of President Kennedy’s head. [/QUOTE] Thank you **carnivorousplant!** I saw that in an art book on American kitsch 30 years ago and have never ever forgotten it. Hello Kittie toaster? Ha! You want the Hello Kittie massager! That and the Poop Hat are available at the JList. The Poop Hat frightens me, I don’t wanna know what they used for inspiration… [http://www.jlist.com/SEARCH/poop\_hat/1/](http://www.jlist.com/SEARCH/poop_hat/1/) Ok, ok, I really want to buy one but don’t know who to give it to… ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/85 "2007-01-09T15:46:26Z")
The scary thing is that the people I know who spend the most money on the kountry kitschy kollectible krap are those who can least afford it: [working-class](http://www.debscountrygifts.com/oscart/images/Z21101.jpg)[women](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-901050001.jsp?_/_prod/_698+854/_/_6/_1064/_/_Y&endeca=true&abbr=unqg) of a [rural](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-116646001.jsp?_/_prod/_698+786/_/_18/_1023/_/_Y&endeca=true&abbr=fath)[Confederate](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-49072.jsp?_/_prod/_17/_/_120/_1031/_/_Y&endeca=true&abbr=hw)[cultural](http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-918075002.jsp?_/_prod/_717/_/_/_1015&endeca=true&abbr=dale&FP2) and socioeconomic orientation. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/86 "2007-01-09T16:03:26Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Howbout a [Soft Saint?](http://www.theshepherdsgifts.com/Shopping/ProductsByCategory.asp?id=74) [/QUOTE] I’m in trouble. Only the fact that they cost $75 is saving me from having to decide between Kateri Tekakwita & St Joan. That’s more than an Angel Smile Time puppet! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/87 "2007-01-09T16:05:27Z")
[QUOTE=TV time] 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. [/QUOTE] [It gets worse](http://www.thevelvetstore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=ve033&Category_Code=11). Too bad I can’t find an image of a velvet painting of the Virgin Mary cradling the baby Elvis, or Elvis rising off on a howling wolf. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/88 "2007-01-09T16:55:53Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] [It gets worse](http://www.thevelvetstore.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=ve033&Category_Code=11). Too bad I can’t find an image of a velvet painting of the Virgin Mary cradling the baby Elvis, or Elvis rising off on a howling wolf. [/QUOTE] How come Elvis has a halo in that picture and Big J doesn’t? ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/89 "2007-01-09T16:57:59Z")
I like how Elvis has a halo but Jesus doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/90 "2007-01-09T17:05:45Z")
[QUOTE=Marlitharn] How come Elvis has a halo in that picture and Big J doesn’t? [/QUOTE] Ya’ll sure that ain’t Bob Dylan? Another Jewish fella and all. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/91 "2007-01-09T17:11:23Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] 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! [/QUOTE] Yes! I said exactly the same thing when I saw that commercial. It’s almost unbelievably icky. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/92 "2007-01-09T17:14:55Z")
At one point I saw an ad for a tacky painting of The Last Supper, with a digital clock incorporated in it. On the hour it would recite a Bible verse. ---
**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 9, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/93 "2007-01-09T17:32:15Z")
[QUOTE=Marlitharn] How come Elvis has a halo in that picture and Big J doesn’t? [/QUOTE] More to the point, why is Jesus dressed like Don Johnson during Miami Vice’s heyday? ---
**Author:** ![Baron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de0a6/32.png) [@Baron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/94 "2007-01-09T17:46:13Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Howbout a [Soft Saint?](http://www.theshepherdsgifts.com/Shopping/ProductsByCategory.asp?id=74) [/QUOTE] Full of Grace! ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/95 "2007-01-10T01:09:16Z")
[QUOTE=Zyada] Now, there is intentionally tacky and there is the innocently tacky, such as what Eve started this thread with. I propose that this is of the latter group: [Tee Time Toilet Potty Putter](http://www.amazon.com/Tee-Time-Toilet-Potty-Puter/dp/B000EN0SSC) [/QUOTE] I mean, REALLY, do the pants have to be down around the ankles like that? And couldn’t it be a woman if they did so you could pretend she might be there for pee pee only? My land in heaven! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/96 "2007-01-10T02:35:53Z")
I so want a [Mother Teresa pinata](http://www.theshepherdsgifts.com/Shopping/ProductsByCategory.asp?id=74)! Everytime I whack her with the nail-studded baseball bat, I can remind her that pain is just “Jesus kissing her!” Wonder what she’s stuffed with? Probably really crappy candy, like [these](http://www.bad-candy.com/candies/). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/97 "2007-01-10T02:56:10Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] pain is just “Jesus kissing her!” [/QUOTE] Say what? ---
**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 10, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/98 "2007-01-10T03:19:21Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Say what? [/QUOTE] Mother Teresa is reported to have withheld painkillers from the dying in her care and telling them that the pain was “Jesus kissing them”. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/99 "2007-01-10T03:38:43Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Mother Teresa is reported to have withheld painkillers from the dying in her care and telling them that the pain was “Jesus kissing them”. [/QUOTE] Thanks, jayjay. Does anyone have a link to that? One would hope it was some error in “offering pain up to G-d”, a pretty strange concept in itself IMHO. ---
**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 10, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070/100 "2007-01-10T03:56:01Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Thanks, jayjay. Does anyone have a link to that? One would hope it was some error in “offering pain up to G-d”, a pretty strange concept in itself IMHO. [/QUOTE] Every link I found on Google had a definite and undisguised axe to grind, which is why I phrased the post the way I did and offered no cite. I’m not sure of the amount of accuracy I should place on the reports myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-jaw-droppingly-tacky-thing-you-can-buy/387070.md?page=6)