So, seller walt**maxi’s mom put a plastic cup in the washer and dryer in the 1970s, and it so resembled a tushie that they’ve kept it in the china cabinet for over 30 years. At long last, the day has come for the family to say its goodbyes to the “sexy butt cup,” for a minimum bid of $495.
Perhaps because dogs are known to enjoy a good derriere, 10 percent of the auction proceeds will go to the Humane Society of Louisiana.
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Certain fringes in the U.S. have gone more than a little wacky with myths about Obama. A lot of it really isn’t funny.
Here’s one example of paranoia and/or questionable humor on eBay:
A sea shipping container has been repackaged as a “shipping container bomb shelter rubber room” which, touts the tag line “can also be used for a gun case safe to shoot out of!” It’s unclear whether seller “verycleanwater1691″ is a survivalist, or gently mocking survivalists. He/she claims that the $2,100, 1,100-pound container “is not for use to detain humans” with the caveat “WE WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE IF YOU PUT YOUR WIFE IN HERE!” Meanwhile, if you were worried that, say, your county comptroller or school board member goes on wild gun and emergency supply-looting sprees on the weekends, there are ostensibly “enough heavy duty latches on these babies to keep the most determined ‘democrat-liberal type’ from stealing anything!”
After watching the unsettling documentary My Fake Baby on BBC America a few months back, it’s nice to find out that not all creators of “reborns” take themselves too seriously… er, maybe.
If you haven’t heard of or seen a “reborn” – they are handmade infant dolls that look stunningly lifelike. In the BBC special, a few women talk about why they purchase the dolls, which some like to take on regular walks in carriages. They model motherhood, often drawing the kind attention of strangers who don’t realize that the doll isn’t an actual human baby. Another grandmother, whose grandchild had moved a continent away, had one made in his exact image as a baby because she missed him.
That said, here’s “Charlie”:
Charlie was made by someone who ordinarily sells reborns and didn’t set out to put a baby head in a jar.
“It just kinda happened one day” says eBay seller lizlovenursery, who made this listing read a bit like a horror movie. A preservative that included bleach was used in the jar, and did cause Charlie’s hair to dissolve.
A prospective buyer asked the question: “Hi does Charley tell the future? eg lottery results etc? and why when i try to log off does he scream “DONT LEAVE ME DADDY”????????????? thanks!”
(The answer was: “I don’t know.”)
Apparently, if the auction reaches $150, a used electric guitar will be thrown into the deal.
Maybe you have questions too. Visit the Charlie auction.
I was a kid in 1977, and a kid who lived on the Atlantic shoreline. And yet somehow, I missed the exciting, battery-operated game, “Crab Trap.” The tagline for the toy is “Who can catch the most crabs?” Shouldn’t toy-makers have known better? It was 1977, after all. Even worse – maybe they did.
You can bid on a preserved copy of the game on eBay.
Visit the 1977 Crab Trap auction.
There’s no actual item for sale in this auction – no zippers, zebras, zucchini, zombies or zeppelins, not even a zephyr. This person just wants to sell “the English (Anglo-Saxon) letter Z to be copywrited and yours.” Presumably, you would receive some kind of paperwork if you bid the $1,789,999 minimum freight, or maybe Zephyrus would visit your house and give you the West wind too… who knows?
I, for one, feel pretty attached to the letter Z, and use it often. Maybe I’ve read The Wonderful O by James Thurber
Visit the English Letter Z for sale auction.
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