There was a car parked in front of my workplace last week that had a sign on the back window made up of those metallic stick on letters that you usually see on mailboxes. The sign read “PIMPINGS HARD” and it was followed by another metallic stick on thing designed to go on a woman’s washroom door.
Keith
Mully/Cynical - In addition to “Don’t Worry Be Happy”, the fish also sings the Talking Heads’ “Take Me to the River.” Much funnier than “DWBH”. I saw one in a gift shop a couple weeks ago and have to admit that it was damn funny, mainly because of the way it turns its head to look at you and mouth the words. It is curiously realistic. I would have considered it as a gift for a tacky friend, but it cost $30, too much for such silliness. Cynical, I assume you haven’t actually received your fish yet since you weren’t aware of “Take Me to the River”, but I’d say you could take bids on it.
MST3K: Best lil’ puppet show on the planet.
Or any Harley Davidson apparel for that matter…
Not exactly the same, but I think it’s so tacky when old ladies put tissues in their sleeves. Anyone seen this before?
I have chainmail underwear.
I have never seen that. Any ideas why they do it?
For the record, boots with shorts just doesn’t work for me. Especially if you can see the socks.
Once, at a flea market, I saw a neon jesus cuckoo clock. I mean actual plug-in-and-light-up neon.
I was gonna say when you see poor white-trash rednecks wearing the lastest mass-market designer logo wear (i.e. “Tommy Gofigure”) when they’ve probably purchased these items at a knock-off flea market.
Then I thought I would say all the affluent, white suburban teens who listen to gansta rap and dress and talk like their from the 'hood and they’ve been oppressed 'cause of their color.
But no, I think I’ll say the tackiest thing I see would have to be all these women who have purchased a Coach purse, then leave the little Coach-stamped leather tag on a chain connected to their overpriced purse.
I suppose I like my brandnames, logos, etc. on the INSIDE of my clothing. Anything else seems tacky and/or pretentious.
A bathtub up-ended and half buried in the ground (front yard)with a plaster statue of the Virgin Mary ensconced inside.
Not kidding, it was on Rt 38 in Woburn, MA as recently as a few months ago.
I’m ashamed to admit…I owned this. Mine was a picture on a card, and it turned blue if it was going to rain. Bought it at the Franciscan Monastery in DC, which is a GREAT place for tacky religious stuff, including the Pope comic book. Yep, a Pope comic book. Had that one too.
I’ve seen them in other places, but the first time I saw the Boogie Santa was in Little India in Queens. You have all the Hindu gods, and a little mechanical santa doll, his arms raised over his head, his bon-bon moving more than Ricky Martin’s. It’s sound activated. I was crying by the time my sister pulled me away from the store window…
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-Chef Troy, Haiku MasterMy son has that fishing game, his dad gave it to him for Christmas last year. It’s true, I married trailer trash, but then I was young and liberal and felt like everyone deserved a chance. The man actually bought me one of those lamps from Fingerhut. You know the kind that has the greek style statue in the middle and the strands of fishing line running down the sides. When you turn it on it heats up this oil and the oil drips down the lines and is supposed to look like water. It hangs from the ceiling on a chain. He also bought me a touch lamp with pictures of unicorns on the genuine plastic etched glass. Needless to say most everything he ever gave me looked like it had fallen off of a truck, moving very fast down I95.
Needs2know
It’s not as luscious as that bowling jacket, but I do recall a gift a little Catholic girl I know got when she was—whatever happens to them when they’re real little. Confirmed? I dunno.
Anyway, it was a crucifix, about 6" tall, of plastic. The whole thing was ensconced in a large seashell, which was bedecked with tiny shells. When you plugged it in—I swear I am not making this up—Jesus on the cross lit up, slowly spun around and played “Somewhere My Love.”
Little Allison grew up with a highly inaccurate vieew of the crucifixion.
My mom and her friends used to hold “Smashit” parties to do their part to lessen world tackiness. Everyone who came had to bring some horrible, tacky (and breakable) item, and after cocktails and snacks, they would go out in the back yard and take turns smashing the stuff to smithereens with a sledgehammer.
BTW, Swimmingriddles, I wanted to tell you how very flattered that you have included one of my haiku in your sig line.
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I don’t really think something that general can be said to be horribly tacky. Isn’t that a wee bit closed minded? I, too hate tattoos, but I’ll be getting my second facial piercing shortly. Eyebrow rings are chick magnets, and hopefully my tongue bar will be an esprix magnet! 
Skingraft…
First off, dig the name.
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.
Any hopes of heisting that Pgh skyline sequin jacket? That sounds like some hot shit.
Sorry KarmaComa…
Can’t back down on this one. They may be chick magnets now but ten years from now they will simply be holes! I absolutely loathe this facial piercing trend. I have a very beautiful daughter and she cannot wait to pierce everything she’s got. She already pierced her nose, all by herself without my permisson. I don’t allow her to wear the stud. My sister works for a dentist and he states emphatically that tongue studs can ruin the enamel on your teeth! Ask any old guy who’s putting his in a glass every night if he’d have guarded his smile a little better. I know that young people think it’s cool right now, why I cannot understand, but it’s going on. It is a trend that I hope will not continue. Especially the multiple blackwork tattoos. My daughter can’t wait to get one. I think I’ll faint! Perhaps if you make your face into a sieve, with time the holes will close up but the tattoos don’t go away. Every one of my women friends that have a tattoo wish they hadn’t. But they were young like you are obviously and didn’t think ahead enough to how they might feel about it 20 years later.
I’m sorry but I don’t see anything attractive about someone with 2 lbs. of metal hanging off their face.
Needs2know
A number of years ago when the Pope came to the U.S. there was a lot of Pope paraphenalia being sold. A freind of mine who went to see one of his appearances, actually bought a Pope coffee mug.
Also, I have to mention the “Remains Of The Day” lunch box that is shown at the end of the movie “Waiting For Guffman”- if you haven’t seen this movie yet then now you have a terrific reason to rent it!
Yeah, closed minded I say. I agree, 99% of all tattoos are tacky and were done for the wrong reasons. But when a tattoo is well planned, significant to the tattee, and done by a skilled artist they will look good, no matter the gender.
-Obfus
A 50 pound concrete Elvis bust, complete with neon pink and white jumpsuit collar. So horrible I had to buy it and give it away at Christmas to my neighbor’s father. He’s a notorious practical joker.
Later we went out to dinner with our neighbors and when we got to our table, there was Elvis in one of the chairs.
I’m waiting for the perfect opportunity to return it.
I can’t believe you all missed this: Neon spandex on any woman over 200 pounds. Also men with a large, pendulous, flap of skin hanging from under their shirt. Although perhaps this is BEYOND tacky.
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I’m…tacky?!? Pardon me, I have to go sob quietly into my pillow now.
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