It was a thing called " A HIGHHOPPIN HOOM DORN" I cant find a picture of one online, but we still have it. It was one of the last
presents that my son bought my brother. When he died we found it still in his things...We still have it...I found one on Craigs list but that
is the only other one ive found. Sorry no picture......... :-X :-X It was the kind of thing only a guy would buy...for another guy~~~
Look at this email I just recieved from Hammacher Schlemmer! They are encouraging me to buy a fortune telling machine, and I'm thinking about doing it too, just to find out what it does! :laugh:
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The Animated Speaking Fortune Teller.
This is the baritone-voiced animatronic fortune teller that automatically detects your presence and consults with an encased skull between his palms, or allows you to interact with onlookers when you speak through the fortune tellers mouth using a wireless microphone. The fortune tellers head is concealed in its display box behind a curtain that parts aside when motion or sound is detected in front of the tellers box. The fortune tellers wrinkled head, toothless mouth, and recessed feral eyes move in unison while he speaks, accompanied by carnival organ music. He begins with a greeting, then makes a series of movements and vocalizations while he converses with the skull, which flashes its LED eyes and moves its jaw in response. When the fortune teller is set to manual mode, a wireless microphone allows you to channel your voice through him while you remain hidden; his eyes and mouth will move as you speak. It operates either with six AA batteries (required) or with the included AC adapter. Microphone requires one 9-volt battery. 30" H x 22" W x 15" D. (12 lbs.)
What's the weirdest thing you've ever bought?
DON'T buy it David, it will become best friends with that creepy old ghost lady in your basement!
heh - is that THE actual ad david!?
It does say its a caricture!!!!! :laugh:
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I didn't think of that!
Weirdest shopping trip I ever went on.... a trip outside of town to a chicken ranch where you could have all the manure you wanted for a dollar as long as you shoveled it yourself. My neighbor Kathy and I got the bright idea of taking her husbands pick-up and a couple of shovels and getting us a truck load of fertilizer for a buck. Deal right? Boy was that hard, hot, smelly work.
:laugh: But you know what, my plants just loved that chicken poo :laugh:
Probably my strangest shopping trip ever...
A few years ago, I passed by a yard sale and bought two things: a carved wooden alligator and a boomerang.
Dottie, I'm sorry and I love you to death, but nothing and I mean NOTHING is worth shoveling chicken shit to save a few bucks. I'll just keep going to Home Depot, thank you. ;)
:D :D
Back in 1990 when I was 24, I bought a used Cadillac Hearse. Oh yeah. I wasn't even shopping for one. LOL. Being a Cadillac lover, I had just stopped by a Limousine dealership. They also sold Hearses. If in the area I'd stop by to walk out back and see what they had in as trade ins.
The oldest car there was a silver 1973 Cadillac hearse. It had a dent in the front fender. It had a silver roof too. Not the usual black ones you see. It was $500. I laughed, "Gee I could buy that with my VISA card" Well they took me up on my comment. The next thing I know I'm driving it home. It was huge.
I couldn't drive it home. My parents would have a fit! So I drove it to my boyfriends house. LOL. He was also a Cadillac nut and intrigued by the vehicle, but still was in shock I bought it. "What the hell are you going to do with it?" I don't know. Paint it red and white and make an Ambulance out of it? "Well I guess that would be better" he said. It didn't take long before his neighbors called asking if everything was alright. LOL.
Well, I hid the Hearse at the shop where I worked. Eventually my boss told me it had to go. So I took it to a garage for a safety inspection. While there it was vandalized. The owner of the garage felt bad it happened. So he offered to give me a fair value for the car because he wanted to pull the engine out of it. I quickly accepted his offer.
So that was my weirdest purchase!
Back in 1990 when I was 24, I bought a used Cadillac Hearse. Oh yeah. I wasn't even shopping for one. LOL. Being a Cadillac lover, I had just stopped by a Limousine dealership. They also sold Hearses. If in the area I'd stop by to walk out back and see what they had in as trade ins.
The oldest car there was a silver 1973 Cadillac hearse. It had a dent in the front fender. It had a silver roof too. Not the usual black ones you see. It was $500. I laughed, "Gee I could buy that with my VISA card" Well they took me up on my comment. The next thing I know I'm driving it home. It was huge.
I couldn't drive it home. My parents would have a fit! So I drove it to my boyfriends house. LOL. He was also a Cadillac nut and intrigued by the vehicle, but still was in shock I bought it. "What the hell are you going to do with it?" I don't know. Paint it red and white and make an Ambulance out of it? "Well I guess that would be better" he said. It didn't take long before his neighbors called asking if everything was alright. LOL.
Well, I hid the Hearse at the shop where I worked. Eventually my boss told me it had to go. So I took it to a garage for a safety inspection. While there it was vandalized. The owner of the garage felt bad it happened. So he offered to give me a fair value for the car because he wanted to pull the engine out of it. I quickly accepted his offer.
So that was my weirdest purchase!
I'm not sure how we're defining 'weird'.
Since I'm following the Old Religion, I suppose some of the things I've bought might be considered weird-
Favorite piece of jewelry, bar none. Not visible in the pic, underneath are the balls. It's lovingly detailed. I wear it with a little silver bell. I've not had any comments. I suppose that's because from a distance, it looks like a cross ;D
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/capricornslair_1964_194712944
And I've bought dancing skeleton figures, ancient artifacts, but I bought those those for religious/cultural/touristy reasons, so I'm not sure those could be defined as 'weird'. But recently I bought something I consider weird as a joke for a friend since I would have never bought one otherwise:
http://www.silvercrowcreations.com/images/buddychristlarge.jpg
That statue reminds me of the one from Dogma. Did you see that movie Delalluvia? :)
[jumps up and down clapping hands in delight]
That's EXACTLY what it is! It's a Buddy Jesus from the movie!!! You can buy them!!!
A fake vagina for my stallion??
ok You ever see one of those rams the SWAT teams use to break down doors?
imagine one of them hollowed out...lined in vinyl with a little cup at one end....
you take the stallion over to the mare (who is in a barricade so the stallion can't leap her) he snorts and bellows a bit...then you let him go to the dummy mare and he jumps up on it...you grab his...*ahem*...and guide it into the sleeve there...two seconds later it is all over...
[jumps up and down clapping hands in delight]
That's EXACTLY what it is! It's a Buddy Jesus from the movie!!! You can buy them!!!
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I thought that's what it was! :D
Where can I buy one?
The strangest thing I ever bought was a clay figure that was a reproduction of something mesoamerican, it was called "male figure with skin lesions". I gave it to my sister for Xmess. She had said not to gove her anything because she already has everything. She now has two male figures with skin lesions.