So for Father’s Day, my dad asks for this, a replica of Confederate General Shelby’s calvary sword. My dad’s quite the Civil War buff, and thinks it’s, as George Carlin once put it, a “really keen war.” But he wanted the sword, so I ordered it and split it with my brother.
Get to the fucking point already…
Okay, okay. Apparently, when you order from these people, they put you on a mailing list. Products that have been advertised to me:
I remember Reagan jellybeans and Clinton cola. Merchandisers have always gone to great lengths to get people to spend their money, and this is no different.
Were the Reagan jelly beans simply ‘Jelly Belly’ beans?
I never liked jelly beans until I tried Jelly Belly, so I gotta give the Gipper credit for that one. Not sure I agreed with him on a single other thing…
For some reason, I kind of wanna buy one of those W t-shirts, even though I’m totally for Kerry. I’d wear the shirt in public too, maybe for some kind of irony value or something.
I’d probably write “Vote for incompetance!” on it or something if I decided just wearing the shirt was stupid.
I don’t know if the makers intended them to be serious but I got a set as a gag gift (and I can’t be the only one) from my brother-in-law, who sees me as a liberal pinko. He just wanted to pull my chain and see how I’d react.
