Gotcha Box.

Don't you just love the look on someone's face when they unwrap a present only to find that it contains something -- tasteless? pointless? absurd? And you see them, just for a moment, working out how to smile naturally and say something like "Wow! Another singing fish for my collection. Thanks, Uncle Walter."

The Onion Store offers Gotcha Boxes to achieve that special moment of cognitive dissonance without the lasting effects:

Real Boxes. Fake Products.
Give that special someone a gift that will confuse, disappoint and
possibly anger. Give it to them in an Onion GotchaBoxâ„¢. These special
gift boxes, printed with fake product graphics and descriptions, hold
your actual gifts inside. The victim/recipient will congratulate you
(eventually) for providing them an utterly perplexing and wonderfully
humbling moment.

Via Real Tech News


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This is just one of three that can be found at the Onion--

http://store.theonion.com/product_info.php?products_id=214

I like the "Salt of the Month Club." Mediterranean Pale August is the best.
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My husband loves to entertain the kids with the throwing boiling water into the freezing cold. None of it even hits the ground! I'm going to mention the banana trick. The kids would love that.
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I used to work in Milwaukee, which is cold (though not as cold as some of these other places) and schools and offices didn't closed even when I'd be walking through knee high ice and snow to get to work. My former coworkers still had work this past week. Now in Virginia... it was drizzling at 35F not too long ago (yes, 35 on the positive side) and most of the schools and plenty offices closed and everyone's tossing salt every which way because of the POSSIBILITY of sleet. Turned out, water stays liquid when the temperature doesn't go below freezing. Who'da thunk?

Perhaps the banana test should be the defining factor on closings...
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I grew up 150 miles north of Minneapolis, where it's much colder. There's nothing like that feeling of snot freezing inside your nasal passages when you breathe.
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JM, while I sympathize completely with your car woe, I did think it sounded hilarious when I read your post. It's good to have a postive attitude about these things. Good luck with the repairs adn everybody stay warm (11 degrees in NYC right now)
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I live about an hour and half south of Minneapolis and it was -36 this morning when I woke up. They have cancelled school around the state the past two days because it's so cold! There's nothing like walking from your car into work and feeling your sinuses freezing along the way. Ahhh, winter....
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Pussies! -14F is nothing, where I come from we regularly have temperatures below -22F, even as far as -40F at times. Add windchill to that and -14F is a bloody cakewalk, almost like shorts weather.
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The water doesn't evaporate.

It sublimates. The hot liquid water breaks up into ice crystals and then much of that goes directly into a gas state. That part which doesn't falls as snow.

It's almost the same thing that happens when you hang wet clothes out in winter. They freeze, and then they dry as the ice goes from a solid directly to a gas without passing thru the water state.

Sublimation.

Neat huh?
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