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
Comments (8)
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I like the "Salt of the Month Club." Mediterranean Pale August is the best.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/03/gotcha_fake_box.html
and they should have had sven. oh well!
never seen -51 before :O
It's -45f with the windchill right now.
The other day it was -61f with the windchill.
Perhaps the banana test should be the defining factor on closings...
Hot water trick is always fun
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?