Being mostly guys (the Suze isn't a guy, but swears like one), we could spend the entire week filling your stocking with nothing but video games, DVDs, and DVDs of movies based on video games. But maybe you have somebody in your life who wants something... actually, why don't I just let these guys say it for me?
In other words, maybe you have to buy a gift for a hobo who lives behind a Gap outlet.
You all know about the Snuggie. It's a blanket with sleeves. You
can pretty much get any copy of Snuggie you want. A Weezer snuggie, a
leopard print Snuggie, a Philadelphia Phillies snuggie. But why should
*you* be the only one in your house to enjoy the amazing comfort
provided by a blanket with sleeves?
Your dog deserves a Snuggie too. So get her a
Snuggie for Dogs! Available in blue or pink, and in multiple sizes, for
a little more than a Hamilton... this is a gift that even Aaron Burr
wouldn't deny his puppy. Get your puppy a Snuggy and you'll be loved
forever and ever. Don't? Your dog will hate you.
Do you know a douchebag? Of course you do! In fact you probably know
plenty of them. But what to get the douchebag for Christmas? You
don't want to spend a lot of money on them because, well, they're
douches, but if you don't get them a present then by Newton's First Law
of Douchebaggery that would make you a douche! Fuckin' Physics.
Well don't you worry because if there's one thing every douchebag loves
it's a douchy hat, and Lids has TONS of douchy hats. Take this one for
example. At first it's a warm knit hat. Perfect for those cold days
when you want to go outside and play in the snow. Well that isn't very
douchy is it? But wait, there's more! Now let's put an Argyle pattern
over a quarter of the hat. Argyle implies rich. Rich kids have rich
parents that take them to Aspen every year to go on snowboarding trips.
And words like "rich", "Aspen", and "snowboarding" just scream out
DOUCHEBAG!
So OK, just getting a knit hat with an Argyle pattern makes you a
douche, but we all know that douchebags need to one up each other.
They all strive to be the Biggest Douche. Well Lids to the rescue
again! This hat has a brim. But not an actually useful brim that could shade your eyes. An
itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie, half-Argyle douchy brim-kini. What possible
reason would one have for a brim this size you ask? Adding this brim
allow you to wear the hat backwards! Without the brim people might not
notice if it's on backwards, but with this brim you can flaunt your
douchiness by wearing your Argyle knit hat on backwards in the middle
of August just so everyone knows that you're the Biggest Douche in the
Land.
There
are some ideas that are so great that your emotions go straight past
admiration, straight past awe, and directly into a rage so pure and
uncontrollable that you didn't think of it first that all you can do is
clench your fists and scream at your useless Muse who keeps telling you
to write about dance competitions on the internet. Muse! Why did you
not gift me with the idea of a sleeping bag that recreates the
experience of Luke Skywalker huddling inside the carcas of a Tauntaun
for warmth against the unforgiving Hoth winter?
This idea originally started as an April Fool's Day prank, but when the internet saw it and basically had a collective orgasm, the creators realized they should actually make it, sell them to nerds (I hope it comes in 6XL) and then retire to the shores of the Riviera flanked by the two women in Europe Tiger Woods hasn't sullied yet. The brilliant
details are what make this the greatest achievement of human history.
Pretend to be Han Solo cutting the beast open by working the Lightsaber
zipper! Rest your head on the plush Tauntaun head pillow! And the
inside pattern? Intestines, of course.
So
I walk into Bizzarre Bazzar a couple blocks from my house. It's a smoke
shop and sex novelty shop. I was purchasing some....well, that's not
important--what is important is what my eyes came to rest on. There were
2 hoodlum looking fellows in the shop with me talking to the clerk and
holding this beauty in their hands.
For $50 bucks you get an awesome novelty gag gift or one hell of a
bong. So whether your recipent is going to war or going into their
parent's basement, tell them to stick this up their pipe and smoke it!
I don't know why, if you were looking for fashion recommendations,
you would go to ObscureCraft. For the love of God have you seen
Jesse's hair lately? Having said that, this is something I
actually bought as a gift this year. Spoiler alert!Electric socks are
good gifts for two types of people: hunters, and people who are cold
all the time but want to sleep anyway, and don't have control over the
thermostat.
Drawbacks: carrying around batteries in your socks seems really uncomfortable; there's apparently a mild risk of combustion.
So I walk into work this morning and one of the new guys in our department is wearing DT's hat, minus the argyle pattern, backwards. Backwards.
The guy's a douchebag, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. He sits on the phone all day and talks about fantasy football. I don't think he actually does work. And he's not even one of the chosen, who would have thunk it?
Mother Craft @ December 20, 2009 10:21 AM
Jim, as one of the chosen myself, we of course, have no douchebags in our tribe, just gigantic nerds.
Jim @ December 21, 2009 11:58 PM
Actually, the douche is Vinny from Staten Island... not a member of the tribe at all, I'm happy to let you know.
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