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Top 10 Stupid Christmas Gifts, You Never to Send Out？
December 8th, 2009 | 
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Krista QQ(www.123giftfactory.com) asked:
What’s a good gift idea for that she or he who really does have everything? Then how about an underwear repair kit or maybe a “Yes, We Can” of Barack Obama bottle opener?
The Stupid.com website in New York US, which unveiled its second annual list of the top 10 “stupidest” Christmas gifts for 2008 on Tuesday, and it claims that finding a truly stupid gift is an art form.
“2008 might have been a bad year for the economy, but it was a great year for stupidity,” said Gary Apple, founder of Stupid.com. “Weird products seemed to come out of the woodwork this year. There were too much stupid articles that it’s difficult to choose from!”
Here is the list of 2008 top 10 stupid Christmas gift awarded by stupid.com (New York-based)
Top 1. Screaming Chicken
This rubber chicken doesn’t squeak or squawk. It only screams. It maybe is the most annoying toy in the world.
Top 2. Christmas Tree Ornament for “Wealth Redistribution”
This tree ornament announces that the ornament that used to be there has been taken away and given to someone who needs it more. The Redistribution Christmas Ornament is talking people that you’re making a fortune whether you want to or not.
Top 3. Mini Guitar Hero
This miniature version is originated from the megahit game ”Guitar Hero” in the USA, and it is barely 6-inches long, but it can still rock out various rocking music, and these songs mainly come from specials of Queen, Cheap Trick, Nirvana, and The Police Band.
Top 4. Potty Putter
Why waste time on the toilet, you may make use of it to exercise the fairway? Potty Putter contains everything you need for an exciting round of golf without leaving your seat, which including a putting green around the toilet, mini putter, flag stick and two golf balls.
Top 5. Mustard Flavor Gum Balls
These little green gum balls offer an intense explosion of mustard. It’s strange that the candy is actually delicious.
Top 6. An Underwear Repair Kit for Men
In this hard time of economy, don not to throw away your old underwear but repair it yourself with this Underwear Repair Kit. This repair kit is portable, inexpensive, and in which anything you need won’t absent, and it can help you to get your undershorts back into presentable shape.
Top 7. Obama “Yes We Can” Bottle Opener
Each election will spawns some interesting things, but this time it bought the stupidest one. But to those Obama fans, the “Yes, We Can” bottle opener themed with Obama’s campaign slogan “Yes, We Can” is certainly a treasure.
Top 8. “How To Tie A Tie” Tie
Still annoying with how to tie your tie? This fashion tie has a simple guide for how to tie that printed on the front. Just follow the six steps step-by-step and you’ll look as dashing as George Clooney in seconds.
Top 9. 2009 Dog **** Calendar
In this calendar each month page features a spectacular landscape or a breathtaking tableau, but somewhere in every shot there’s a pile of dog ****. Distasteful? You bet it is, but the contrast between the beautiful picture and dog **** is remarkable.
Top 10. Alarm Clock with a Pole Dancer
At the alarm time set previous on the clock, dance music plays and disco lights flash. At the same time, a buxom dancer with blond hair gyrates around a pole under the spinning ballroom.
* Last year listed on the stupid Christmas gifts rank includes Hillary Clinton Cracker, Mother Teresa fresh spray, and portable party cupula with a suction kit attached to your forehead.
What’s a good gift idea for that she or he who really does have everything? Then how about an underwear repair kit or maybe a “Yes, We Can” of Barack Obama bottle opener?
The Stupid.com website in New York US, which unveiled its second annual list of the top 10 “stupidest” Christmas gifts for 2008 on Tuesday, and it claims that finding a truly stupid gift is an art form.
“2008 might have been a bad year for the economy, but it was a great year for stupidity,” said Gary Apple, founder of Stupid.com. “Weird products seemed to come out of the woodwork this year. There were too much stupid articles that it’s difficult to choose from!”
Here is the list of 2008 top 10 stupid Christmas gift awarded by stupid.com (New York-based)
Top 1. Screaming Chicken
This rubber chicken doesn’t squeak or squawk. It only screams. It maybe is the most annoying toy in the world.
Top 2. Christmas Tree Ornament for “Wealth Redistribution”
This tree ornament announces that the ornament that used to be there has been taken away and given to someone who needs it more. The Redistribution Christmas Ornament is talking people that you’re making a fortune whether you want to or not.
Top 3. Mini Guitar Hero
This miniature version is originated from the megahit game ”Guitar Hero” in the USA, and it is barely 6-inches long, but it can still rock out various rocking music, and these songs mainly come from specials of Queen, Cheap Trick, Nirvana, and The Police Band.
Top 4. Potty Putter
Why waste time on the toilet, you may make use of it to exercise the fairway? Potty Putter contains everything you need for an exciting round of golf without leaving your seat, which including a putting green around the toilet, mini putter, flag stick and two golf balls.
Top 5. Mustard Flavor Gum Balls
These little green gum balls offer an intense explosion of mustard. It’s strange that the candy is actually delicious.
Top 6. An Underwear Repair Kit for Men
In this hard time of economy, don not to throw away your old underwear but repair it yourself with this Underwear Repair Kit. This repair kit is portable, inexpensive, and in which anything you need won’t absent, and it can help you to get your undershorts back into presentable shape.
Top 7. Obama “Yes We Can” Bottle Opener
Each election will spawns some interesting things, but this time it bought the stupidest one. But to those Obama fans, the “Yes, We Can” bottle opener themed with Obama’s campaign slogan “Yes, We Can” is certainly a treasure.
Top 8. “How To Tie A Tie” Tie
Still annoying with how to tie your tie? This fashion tie has a simple guide for how to tie that printed on the front. Just follow the six steps step-by-step and you’ll look as dashing as George Clooney in seconds.
Top 9. 2009 Dog **** Calendar
In this calendar each month page features a spectacular landscape or a breathtaking tableau, but somewhere in every shot there’s a pile of dog ****. Distasteful? You bet it is, but the contrast between the beautiful picture and dog **** is remarkable.
Top 10. Alarm Clock with a Pole Dancer
At the alarm time set previous on the clock, dance music plays and disco lights flash. At the same time, a buxom dancer with blond hair gyrates around a pole under the spinning ballroom.
* Last year listed on the stupid Christmas gifts rank includes Hillary Clinton Cracker, Mother Teresa fresh spray, and portable party cupula with a suction kit attached to your forehead.
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And She Was. Wonderfully Strange
MiamiMovieCritic asked:
“The world was movin’, she was floatin’ above it and she was.”
Any movie that takes its title from a Talking Heads song is alright in my book, but And She Was offers more than just good taste in 1980s hipster music. Like that 1985 New Wave hit (“hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey, hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey”), the movie is all about a girl, and what makes it such a pleasurable viewing experience are the colorful characters who come to visit said girl on her husband’s birthday.
Abby (Allyson Teed) is a Stepfordish housewife with rose-red lips and a pleasant but rather vacant way about her. She utters not a syllable as she bakes a birthday cake for her husband John (Scott Dewitt) and answers the door for three sets of strangers. The director, Bill Marchant, contrasts Abby’s domestic life (all pristine white surfaces: sterile, spotless and suffocating) with the eccentricity of the visitors. The movie is about the life Abby is missing on the outside.
The dramedy becomes wonderfully strange as soon as Abby opens that front door. Her first visitors are a pair of traveling salesmen who look like they’ve wandered in from an Off-Broadway production of The Music Man. They make some suggestive comments about how the Sucker 3000 vacuum cleaner will make Abby “very happy” before departing in a flurry of argument. Next comes three born-again Christians who caress each other and generally act like adult-film actresses as they spread the Good News. But the highlight is the orphans who show up begging for food. What’s refreshing is that they actually look like orphans; they’re all dirty and their lips are blistered from the cold. The three actors in this scene (Paul Ferancik, Raymond Wey-Ming Ho and Thomas Michael Dobie) have exquisite timing and chemistry; they’re so apologetic about being homeless you won’t believe it.
And She Was is not a happy movie. Abby ultimately feels trapped, and even those on the outside seem lost – a final glimpse of the orphans shows them huddled together in the rain. But, by showing us a world full of so much life and weirdness, the movie says something positive about the possibility of making meaningful connections.
“The world was movin’, she was floatin’ above it and she was.”
Any movie that takes its title from a Talking Heads song is alright in my book, but And She Was offers more than just good taste in 1980s hipster music. Like that 1985 New Wave hit (“hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey, hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey”), the movie is all about a girl, and what makes it such a pleasurable viewing experience are the colorful characters who come to visit said girl on her husband’s birthday.
Abby (Allyson Teed) is a Stepfordish housewife with rose-red lips and a pleasant but rather vacant way about her. She utters not a syllable as she bakes a birthday cake for her husband John (Scott Dewitt) and answers the door for three sets of strangers. The director, Bill Marchant, contrasts Abby’s domestic life (all pristine white surfaces: sterile, spotless and suffocating) with the eccentricity of the visitors. The movie is about the life Abby is missing on the outside.
The dramedy becomes wonderfully strange as soon as Abby opens that front door. Her first visitors are a pair of traveling salesmen who look like they’ve wandered in from an Off-Broadway production of The Music Man. They make some suggestive comments about how the Sucker 3000 vacuum cleaner will make Abby “very happy” before departing in a flurry of argument. Next comes three born-again Christians who caress each other and generally act like adult-film actresses as they spread the Good News. But the highlight is the orphans who show up begging for food. What’s refreshing is that they actually look like orphans; they’re all dirty and their lips are blistered from the cold. The three actors in this scene (Paul Ferancik, Raymond Wey-Ming Ho and Thomas Michael Dobie) have exquisite timing and chemistry; they’re so apologetic about being homeless you won’t believe it.
And She Was is not a happy movie. Abby ultimately feels trapped, and even those on the outside seem lost – a final glimpse of the orphans shows them huddled together in the rain. But, by showing us a world full of so much life and weirdness, the movie says something positive about the possibility of making meaningful connections.