# What's the tackiest thing you've ever seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 26, 2000, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531 "2000-04-26T14:10:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/61 "2000-04-27T20:05:00Z")
When I was in the Royal Navy a parcel arrived for me after a trip all the way from the UK to the gulf patrol which we were doing at the time. We’d not had mail for weeks and I was the only one down our mess to get a proper parcel (and I had to pay part of the postage as it was overweight) The letter with it explained that my Aunt had just got God and was sending me this item Amongst a curious crowd I opened it and found a latex ventriloquist Jesus dummy! ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/62 "2000-04-27T20:06:00Z")
Some of these are so funny I have tears in my eyes. (And the knitted beercan hat gave me a violent and hilarious flashback of the local bicentennial parade of my childhood, lol.) The “pimpin’” car reminded me of a bumpersticker we saw last year on a car parked outside a casino in Lake Tahoe. It said “Jesus is ‘tha bomb!’” We just STARED. It was the most freakish thing! I finally said “Yeah, that Christ is some DOPE SHIT BOYEEEEE!” * * * “You guys are outta your league…You’re looking at a woman who has her own harpoon!” ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/63 "2000-04-28T02:36:00Z")
Toilet paper covers made to look like a doll. Those beer or pop can hats that are knitted together. Bleach bottles cut and bent to have fins. Then stuck on a stick, to turn in the wind. That stupid sign " If you sprinkle, when you tinkle, be a sweety, wipe the seaty." Those stupid foam cheese hats. What’s worse than black fishing boy statues at a landscape firm? They didn’t sell, so they painted them white, but they still had the same features. A bright yellow vinyl chair. Bright tight double knit polyester lime green pants on a fat lady. People shouldn’t be able to count the folds of skin and see your pock marks on your thighs. A very ugly female that entered a bar in just a long johns shirt and panties at about 11:00 pm. I guess that’s more slutty than tacky. A clock that played christmas songs every hour. The bathtub on end with a statue of Mary. Toilets on the lawn with flowers planted in them. A friend had this one. Someone died and the widow bought birthday cards and signed them from people they knew. She then handed the cards to people and told them to put them in the coffin. This was about fifty cards. ---
**Author:** ![skingraftat75mph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@skingraftat75mph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skingraftat75mph)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/64 "2000-04-28T03:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by mouthbreather: > \*\*Skingraft… > Where in da burgh are you? I’m not usually this stalker-like, but Yinzers are at a bare minimum on this board. Just curious. > \*\* North Side, but only for another two weeks as I prepare to move (back) to Philly. Sorry to disappoint. > [@](#): > > \*\* > Any hopes of heisting that Pgh skyline sequin jacket? That sounds like some hot shit.\*\* I’ll keep you updated on my progress. I was very tempted to ask the guy where such a jacket came from (and when it was going back) but I didn’t want to seem like, in our vernacular, a jagoff. ---
**Author:** ![skingraftat75mph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@skingraftat75mph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skingraftat75mph)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/65 "2000-04-28T03:07:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Felinecare: > **I just saw a card featuring the Easter Bunny laying a basket at the feet of Guess Who Guess Where. I may never recover.** Possibly one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while from our pals at The Onion: [http://www.theonion.com/onion3614/eastercards\_3514.html](http://www.theonion.com/onion3614/eastercards_3514.html) ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/66 "2000-04-28T03:20:00Z")
one of the tackiest things ive ever seen is a cheesy little triangle-shaped snowman that played the most annoyingly high-pitched version of "deck the halls"you have ever heard! we also pass along a card at every birthday and christmas - its an ugly pink-flowered one, and we have the tradition of just crossing out the old name and putting on a new message for the new person. its called "la shitty carte ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/67 "2000-04-28T03:36:00Z")
Darva Conger ---
**Author:** ![NickDanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@NickDanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickDanger)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/68 "2000-04-28T06:12:00Z")
The Precious Moments “I Can Potty By Myself” collectible figurine. ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/69 "2000-04-28T06:56:00Z")
The tackiest thing I ever saw was the bathroom in the house my ex and I bought about 10 years back. The room was covered with green shag carpeting. Not the floor, mind you, but the walls and the ceiling! Before we stayed a night in the place I spent about three hours in there with a claw hammer pulling all that crap out, the previous owner having installed it with 3 inch long nails. I won’t go into things like having to wash the walls 4 times before painting them or what the carpet in the living room was like after the previous owner’s dog had used it as a bathroom for 10 years… * * * Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/70 "2000-04-28T19:18:00Z")
Men going topless who have bigger breasts than some women. ---
**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/71 "2000-04-30T07:27:46Z")
Seems like most people are mentioning things you can get or things that people have. The tackiest thing that comes to mind is something I’ve seen somebody do. In my city there is a prominent pastor of a rather large fundementalist church, and the church broadcasts their weekly service on local TV late at night. So anyway, one night flippin’ through the channels I catch the last part of his sermon. Still standing at the lectern, he seques into the part of the service where they collect the money from the congregation. He pauses and makes a big show of unbuttoning his suit, fishing around inside his coat and retrieving his wallet, counting out several bills and stuffing them into a collection envelope. _demonstrating exactly what he expects his people to do_ Yeah, that’s it - leading by example. Maybe it’s done like this everywhere else but my church. ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/72 "2000-04-30T16:40:45Z")
ELIZABETH TAYLOR ---
**Author:** ![Calredic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@Calredic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calredic)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/73 "2000-05-01T00:36:19Z")
I was once in an elevator with a middle-aged guy, whose ample gut was barely covered by a ratty t-shirt proclaiming: “This isn’t a beer belly, it’s a gas tank for a sex machine!” What made it even more memorable was his hat, which had an embroidered deer-with-target-sights emblem, and bore the logo “Happiness is an 8-pointer.” \>shudder\< ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/74 "2000-05-01T01:05:52Z")
Any lawn ornaments, doing anything, anywhere in the world. I HATE lawn ornmaments. Ok, now I got to defend some stuff. My mother has 3 tattoos. One is a yellow rose on her shoulder that is for my great-grandmother. One is a black rose above her heart that is for her children, and one is Harley-Davidson logo wings with my Dad’s name instead of Harley-Davidson. My Dad also has tattoos, but they are just artistic. Secondly both my parents ride a Harley, and have all kinds of T-shirts, hats, and various other apparel with the Harley Logo. Having been exposed to it all my life, I’m not sure what’s tacky about it. I also wear the shirts myself. Believe it or not, respectable people have tattoos and wear Harley apparel. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/75 "2000-05-01T01:30:47Z")
This very afternoon, I saw a pickup truck absolutely festooned with confederate flags. I mean, real cloth, blowing in the wind confederate flags—at least five that I was able to count, along with several bumper stickers with the same motif. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/76 "2000-05-01T09:43:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Every one of my women friends that have a tattoo wish they hadn’t. > \*\* I know a lot of women who are not in the slightest bit regretful of their tattoos. And one of them is a 60+ year old little white haired granny type! (hers is a hummingbird on her ankle) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/77 "2000-05-01T10:01:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > -Full immersion baptisms. In a Catholic Cathedral. In a pink fake marble whirlpool. With the pool/spa dealer’s name on the side in large letters. On Easter Sunday. > \*\* The church I went to as a kid installed a baptismal thing on the stage. It’s like a giant trap door that opens up and underneath is this 5’ x 10’ or so pool. It made sermons a little more interesting to picture the trapdoor opening and the pastor getting dunked… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/78 "2000-05-01T10:09:28Z")
When I go to Tucson in a couple of weeks I’m making a pilgrimage to this house to take a picture and I’ll post it for you… but there is a house (on Water or Copper or Silver street, just off Mountain. A block or two north of Grant. If any of you live there and want to see) anyway this house is in your standard grid neighborhood, but his yard is just FULL of these tacky, ugly, hideous “sculptures”… they’re like junk and metal stuff put together to form human shapes and posed all around. Now this is a small yard. And these are about life sized. And there are probably 50 of them. ---
**Author:** ![swisemankcmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@swisemankcmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swisemankcmo)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/79 "2000-05-01T12:51:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > BTW, The BVM in the Bathtub mentioned above is a frequent sight in a certain nieghborhood in St. Louis (think where Yogi Berra grew up). > > \*\* I don’t know if this would count as Da Hill or not, but are there still the concreted-over lawns painted green on the South Side? The Robots. Just north of Warrensburg, Missouri. Some farmer apparently decided to make a bunch of robots out of old barrels and scrap metal and stick them out facing Highway 13. This is starting to qualify as a Genuine Tourist Attraction. Still recovering from the trauma of growing up next to a lawn jockey… ---
**Author:** ![Shadenwawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Shadenwawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadenwawa)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531/80 "2000-05-01T17:54:59Z")
Ok 2 things: One is a house near where my parents live that is painted a bright purple. Its windows, however, are yellow, green, orange, blue, and bright red. The thing looks like it was made out of legos. Not to mention the phoenix looking bird things at the top of the multi colored columns on the balcony. Also, one time at Disneyland I saw this guy who was wearing his nice new pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses. How did I know that they were Ray-Bans? He still had the Ray-Ban stickers _right in the middle of the lenses_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-thing-youve-ever-seen/16531.md?page=5)