Comments on: Don't believe, don't don't don't believe the hype

Don't believe, don't don't don't believe the hype

mathowie — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:37:06 -0800

Make this year's xmas a special one by buying the Flavor Flav Talking Alarm Clock with five alarm phrases "Bass In Your Face, Get Up Get Down, Yo G Yo, Yeaa Boy." Have you seen any other similarly bizarre gifts on sale this holiday season?

By: afx114

afx114 — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:44:13 -0800

Best. Clock. EVER.

By: Prospero

Prospero — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:45:20 -0800

As much as I like Flavor Flav... eighty-five dollars?!?

By: starvingartist

starvingartist — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:46:24 -0800

OK, that's four phrases - what's the fifth?

By: rushmc

rushmc — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:47:06 -0800

How about Boner the Humping Hound?

By: hipnerd

hipnerd — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:48:25 -0800

There's always the popular Star Trek: First Contact - Starfleet Travel Set. Includes: * Star Trek Collectable Wallet * Star Trek Soap * Star Trek Cologne Star Trek Cologne. Heh.

By: KnitWit

KnitWit — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:56:42 -0800

That's so frickin hot.

By: stupidsexyFlanders

stupidsexyFlanders — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:00:44 -0800

Actually those are five "wakeup jingles" (the fifth is Fight The Power). The only wakeup phrase available seems to be "Rock that shit, Homie!" The voicing is done by James Earl Jones (not really, but how cool would that be?)

By: y2karl

y2karl — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:01:36 -0800

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:09:27 -0800

I'll stick to my Tweety and Sylvester talking alarm clock, from 1978 - When the alarm clock (wind up) goes off, A little battery powered motor makes Sylvester chase chase Tweety Bird around and around on a little pedestal (beneath a plastic house which also holds the wind up clock) and at the same time a built in tiny phonograph plays over and over a scratchy track (on a tiny record) of "I thought I saw I puddey tat. I DID see a puddey tat!......." (then some pitch about how it's important to wake up or the cat will eat the bird.

By: nickmark

nickmark — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:11:43 -0800

I still wanna Plague Dome...

By: liam

liam — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:21:47 -0800

A Michael Jackson Bar Mitzvah t-shirt.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:28:06 -0800

And the award for most literal interpretation of 'hard-to-find gift' goes to...

By: devon

devon — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:30:00 -0800

I still wanna Plague Dome... *Extreme uniqueness may vary Marvellous

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:43:57 -0800

Man that sucks, you can't hang the clock around your neck too. Think they might of had something there if you could about a decade ago.

By: hackly_fracture

hackly_fracture — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:49:02 -0800

liam, them's some great shirts.

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:22:23 -0800

Unit Price $85.00 Yikes!

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:29:51 -0800

Your two one-stop-shops for all your weird-ass holiday gift-giving needs: Archie McPhee
Oriental Trading Stick with tradition, that's what I say. Plus one: T-Shirt Hell

By: alicesshoe

alicesshoe — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:31:24 -0800

Really! $85.00!? I'm sure there are CD electronic clocks that'll wake you to your favourite tune for less. Wackest clock I have is the Kellog's Cornflake rooster. Bought for a few proof of purchases and $10.00. That thing does sound like a rooster, a little shrill but would definitely wake the dead. Those camo golf balls are a hoot. I remember pulling a prank on one of my foursome by distracting him from his tee and replacing his ball with an exploding compressed chalk golf ball. He took a swing and the thing just pulverized! What a sight.

By: jeremias

jeremias — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:29:19 -0800

The Dr FrankenFurter Celebriduck is pretty bizarre. Especially since it's in it's 2nd edition. Actually the whole concept of a celebriduck is bizarre to begin with, so I don't know what that makes Dr. Frankenfurter.

By: 2sheets

2sheets — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:35:07 -0800

Isn't this a little late? He could have cashed in back in the day.

By: squealy

squealy — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:45:09 -0800

Holiday season? It's bleeding November. Oh OK then, the fabulous Booger Board (that's bogey board in english).

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:33:43 -0800

That's funny. I thought Flavor Flav usually sported a giant Swatch watch, not an Ecko.

By: wendell

wendell — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 17:05:53 -0800

And the award for most literal interpretation of 'hard-to-find gift' goes to... Hmmmmm.... Hard To Find Gift.... Hmmmmm.... "Weapons of Mass Destruction in a Can". Hmmmmm.... Excuse me, I gotta go print some labels...

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:19:24 -0800

Pierre the Louisanna Alligator Slumper for me, please. Or maybe the PC-1805 submarine. Who cares if it's used?

By: trondant

trondant — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:36:07 -0800

Flavor Flav got chronometers of his own

By: djspicerack

djspicerack — Thu, 27 Nov 2003 03:34:23 -0800

I'm cold lampin my way to get one of these right now. How much did you say it was again?

By: wendell

wendell — Thu, 27 Nov 2003 08:30:41 -0800

For merchandising cross-contamination, this year you can't beat the Singing Talking Simpsons' Mr. Burns as Ebenezer Scrooge Figure (with lamppost). From the same people who brought the dancing hamsters to mechanical life.