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It don’t matter if you’re French or Rye: MJ Toast

July 8th, 2009

I guess this was inevitable. In the culture of eBay, few things feel our grief, our longing or our faithful yearnings the way that our toasters do.

Welcome to the newest rash of oddball Michael Jackson-related auctions: portraits of the King of Pop on burned bread.

Pictured here is, obviously, a toast-ly apparition of the “Thriller” cover.

This MJ on toast must be intentional.

He’s moonwalking on this one. It’s rough, but yes, I can see it.

I can’t figure this one out at all.

Chances are good that there are more of these listings being created daily.

If you’re looking for MJ-related auctions, Ebay has created its own Michael Jackson tribute page.
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Suspicious tines

December 5th, 2008

It’s been a good while since anyone reported an Elvis sighting at Stuckey’s or Macchu Piccu, but his DNA — or crumbs once touched by his DNA — are available on a piece of flatware that is for sale on eBay. According to the story, when Elvis played a sold-out show in Johnson City, Tennessee in 1976, he rented the entire floor of a nearby hotel, where fans dutifully swarmed the parking lot and tried to peek into his covered windows.

When plates and silverware were left outside of the King’s room, it was “MAHAM!” [sic], but at least one employee procured a single dirty fork, took it home, and gave it to his sister-in-law, who was bonkers for Elvis. The fork in question has been wrapped in plastic ever since because “there are still particles of food on it that has dryed on it.”