Posts Tagged ‘strange’

Love vegetables

September 13th, 2008

Harvest season has gotten a couple of eBay sellers worked up over root vegetables with suggestive qualities.

First, there is the love potato – a heart-shaped potato that the seller claims can be the “key to renewing love in your life.” He lets the picture do all of the work, without providing any information about where the enigmatic potato was grown or instructions about how to tap into its alleged love power. (Eat it au gratin? Wear it around your neck? Throw it at the person you desire?) Still, he asks $99.99.

Meanwhile, a gardener from “beautiful Northern Illinois” combines an elaborate sales pitch with a questionable mix of upper- and lower-case letters to convince people to buy “TWisTeD LoVers CarRots.”  The sight of two carrots, which grew twisted in a “tender embrace,” apparently provided the seller with a host of improbable fantasies.  Perhaps someone out there wants to propose marriage with this carrot, by slipping a ring on it and serving it to them at dinner? Maybe you’ve just been dying to impress your friend who has an ostentatious love of carrots with this culinary “show stopper.”

Visit the Twisted Lovers carrots auction.

Visit the Love Potato auction.

On Sundays, I juggle jet skis

September 7th, 2008

Ebay seller “krazykel2006″ seems to do a brisk business hawking Gothic fetishwear, like platform heels, patent leather stiletto ballet slippers and clothing that uses metal as though it were a natural fiber.  But in a new auction, she offers a twenty-foot tall robot sculpture that’s currently standing in the lake behind her house. Composed of metal, wood and rubber, he has ribs made out of tires and is holding a jet ski in one hand, a keg in the other.

Making this sounds like a pretty major endeavor to me, unless you have superhuman strength. But the seller’s only explanation is that her husband “was bored one day.”

Visit the Robot sculpture transformer auction.

I want my highlighter to see the world!

August 27th, 2008

Somehow, with the simple declaration that this yellow highlighter has marked up a lot of “important documents and books,” and a positive review for its good, clean highlighting, four people have decided to bid on something they can buy new for under a buck (even less in bulk). With well over a day left in the auction, the used highlighter has been bid up to $2.54.

I have an overdeveloped sense of affection for office supplies myself. Think I could get better than retail for my half-used notebooks?

Visit the Major Accent Highlighter auction.