I was down at the Junkman’s Daughter’s Brother here in Athens (the store of random junk), and what do I find?
I suppose you’ve all heard of Hello Kitty? Well they had a basket of tiny little hello kitty recorder/whistle thingies! It’s an octave above a regular D whistle. Totally nuts! I wish I could scan it for you, but I don’t have a scanner. It’s red plastic anyhow (they had some pink ones too). Yes, of course I bought one. It was like $1.85 I couldn’t resist… 
Beware. Hello Kitty is one of the evils of this world, along with Snuggle. Japan has much to answer for.
Speaking of cool shops like the one you mentioned in Athens, in St. Paul we have The Axman. One day I was foraging around and came across a box of saps (of all things) with “God Bless You” stamped on them! My head nearly exploded from cognitive dissonance.
I still have this vague regret that I never bought one just for the irony of it.
N, w/ 20-20 hindsight
saps?
On 2003-02-02 15:54, TelegramSam wrote:
saps?
it’s a kind of club I believe…
where club=weapon for striking someone…
-brett
Also known as a “blackjack”, a small leather bag filled with lead shot and a handle usually also of braided leather. Used for inducing sleep in sometimes hostile circumstances.
I haven’t seen one of the whistles yet, but I have seen Hello Kitty toilet paper.
Still, nothing compares to these</A](http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9938/archive/arch120.html">these</A)> Hello Kitty items.
(the link above is not appropriate for children, don’t say I didn’t warn you)
On 2003-02-02 17:18, raindog1970 wrote:
Still, nothing compares to these</A](http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9938/archive/arch120.html">these</A)> > Hello Kitty items. >
(the link above is not appropriate for children, don’t say I didn’t warn you)
The unmentionable you've linked to above is actually available for about 1400 yen (that's about $12.00 or so US) pretty much anywhere in Japan, and can be purchased with a related array of hygiene products. (They make great gag gifts for foreigners.)
On a slightly more serious (but no less OT) note, the company that owns the Hello Kitty image and licenses related products recently turned down a merchandising op for HK letter openers, because they could potentially be used in a violent fashion. Make love not war, I guess. //grin//
~Firefly
My sister-in-law is Japanese, and I love the crazy stuff that Nation come up with. At present she’s over with her 3 year old daughter in Tokyo, because the daughter (my niece, Amy) is due to be in a TV show. It’s a bit like Barney, except…
So Amy is not due to become the next Japanese child TV star or anything, but they both stayed over an extra month just for this event, so it must mean a lot to them.
As we say in Britain (thanks to Buffy), go figure…
A sap is like a blackjack, except it’s flat. The ones I mentioned would have been perfect for my late uncle Peter, a sweet man, utterly nonviolent, and a very devout member of the Russian Othodox Church; that thought immediately occurred to me when I saw them!
N, another species of sap
Nanohedron,
where is there an Axman in St. Paul? I thought they closed all of the local ones.
Seth
Speaking of Hello Kitty…
Check out the featured item. But you didn’t hear it from me.
http://www.cheesygraphics.com/karensmall.html
/bloomfield
[ This Message was edited by: Bloomfield on 2003-02-03 16:30 ]
Seth, The Axman in St. Paul is on University Ave. just a block or two west of Snelling on the northeast corner. You can’t miss the sign; free parking can be dicey some days, though. Happy hunting!
N, axe me another
On 2003-02-03 16:29, Bloomfield wrote:
Speaking of Hello Kitty…Check out the featured item. But you didn’t hear it from me.
Ever get the feeling that Bloomfield isn’t paying attention?
Oh! 
Well, you know, I stopped reading your posts months ago, raindog. 
Wow! Things for hitting people on the head with have so many names: cosh, sap, blackjack, truncheon, nightstick, baton, sheleleigh. Probably other names too.
Let’s just pray that, after enduring the Cutie-pie™, we may escape its sequel, The “Bulbous Hello Kitty-pie” thread…
On 2003-02-03 16:29, Bloomfield wrote:
Speaking of Hello Kitty…Check out the featured item. But you didn’t hear it from me.
http://www.cheesygraphics.com/karensmall.html
/bloomfield
[ This Message was edited by: Bloomfield on 2003-02-03 16:30 ]
OK, now I’ve seen everything…
PS: may I just point out what raindog1970’s link shows ?
Now they even pretend recorders to be vibrators in order to sell them!
On 2003-02-04 22:29, Zubivka wrote:
PS: may I just point out what raindog1970’s link shows ?
Now they even pretend recorders to be vibrators in order to sell them!
Nobody's pretending. It's just another example of how multitasking has saturated our modern way of living.
~Firefly
[ This Message was edited by: Firefly on 2003-02-05 14:19 ]
AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Good one, Firefly!
What gets me all torqued about this insidious evil is that when I get home from work I always greet Mubu with -you guessed it- “Hello, kitty!”
–Yeesh.
N, none are spared