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Journal Entry: Thu Dec 4, 2008, 5:49 PM
  • Mood: Christmas Spirited
  • Listening to: Carolers
  • Reading: Christmas Cards
  • Watching: Holiday Specials
  • Playing: Reindeer Games
  • Eating: Candy Canes
  • Drinking: Egg Nog
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Happy Holidays

When I was a kid, my favorite mail delivery of the entire year was the day the mailman brought the Sears catalog. Regular readers may even remember one of my first posts here on dA titled "It Came From The 1971 Sears Catalog" which actually was delivered right about the time I was starting high school. The ones I really remember were from many years ealier than that and I remember them because of the great full-color TOYS section! I loved to leaf through the pages looking at all the great stuff I never knew existed and I would never be able to afford.

Now that I'm an adult, the Sears catalog just doesn't do it for me any more. No, now my tastes are more jaded, and I often boast that I've seen it all...that is I boast until this year's Hammacher-Schlemmer catalog shows up in my mailbox. If you don't know them, then you should. H-S (abbreviated because my hands can only type it out just so many times a day) provides me with a full color TOYS section that I can sit on the john and leaf through at my leisure. Filled with tons of things that I never knew existed, that I can no longer go one more minute of life living without, that have absolutely no practical value whatsoever in my life, and that cost far more than any sane person would ever spend for such junk as:

  • The Only Complete Swiss Army Knife

  • The Gas Powered Snowboard

  • The Install Anywhere Steam Sauna

  • and of course

  • The Transparent Canoe Kayak


  • You can find all of these items online of course, simply by visiting their website at hammacher.com, but you know, there's just something special for me to be able to sit down with my pants around my ankles and giggle while I read the descriptions of things that I will never need, never buy, never afford, and covet like a mutha!

    Hmmm...maybe it's really just the pants/ankles thing after all.....

    -=b=-


    Season's Giggles!


    Thanks to Roger for passing this one on....he knows I can't resist a good play on words....and this is nothing like a good play on words!

    1. The roundest knight at king Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.

    He acquired his size from too much pi.

    2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island,

    but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.

    3. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.

    4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because

    it was a weapon of math disruption.

    5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder

    and got a little behind in his work.

    6. No matter how much you push the envelope,

    it'll still be stationery.

    7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road

    and was cited for littering.

    8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in:

    Linoleum Blownapart.

    9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

    10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

    11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall.

    The police are looking into it.

    12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

    13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway.

    One hat said to the other, 'You stay here, I'll go on a head.'

    14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger.

    Then it hit me.

    15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'

    16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital.

    When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'

    17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

    19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was

    a small medium at large.

    20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now

    a seasoned veteran.

    21. A backward poet writes inverse.

    22. In democracy it's your vote that counts.

    In feudalism it's your count that votes.

    23. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

    24. Don't join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!





    Stamps, stamps, stampie stamp stamps!


    I have collected so many stamps that they don't fit into a single journal. I've organized them into a series of journal entries depending on arbitrary categories I devised myself. Here are the links:



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    HOLY CHRISTMAS BATMAN :iconrobinplz: i hope you be happy and get fun this holidays :aww:

    --
    the deviant who never did grown up and lives in his neverland
    doing the moonwalk and eating candies hearing and composing music fun

    WHERE ARE MAH BEANS?:B
    :iconwm-d:
    Hey, old friend! Nice to hear from you. I hope your Christmas is wonderful, too!

    -=b=-

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    the deviant who never did grown up and lives in his neverland
    doing the moonwalk and eating candies hearing and composing music fun

    WHERE ARE MAH BEANS?:B
    :iconphoenixphyre:
    A gas-powered snowboard . . . for what, cross-country boarding?? I always thought that it was gravity which made snowboards work . . . putting a gas engine on a snowboard is today's version of greasing up the bottom of a metal snow saucer.

    Now I think I've heard of everything. Many happy holidays wishes!

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    Phoenixphyre :flame:

    "Art is not just a matter of externals, of appearances and form. Art is an expression of the artist's inner spirit. A brilliant, radiant spirit is what makes for a great artist."
    -Daisaku Ikeda
    :iconaltergromit:
    ....^^; your Xmas journal is a bit hard to understand to me; :blushes: I think it is about the *Xmas feeling* we had since we were kids... ...Now it is different of course, but I still feel it, hidden under our personal problems or worries... ...The kid inside will never die... :aww: ...I wish you a wonderful Christmas, full of joy and love... :hug: :heart: :rudolph:

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    A dog is a man's best friend: where would Wallace be without Gromit? ;)
    :iconrocamiadesign:
    Thank-you again for featuring me! :hug:
    I remember the old days of receiving our Sears and JC Penny catalogs, how exciting it was to dream and plan ahead for Christmas. We did most of our holiday shopping that way because I had the crowds of the Christmas rush and trying to beat someone to the last item on the shelf. We've replaced that with online shopping which, through offering more of a variety, just doesn't have the same feeling that holding the photographs and carrying them around to browse did.

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