It's Why the Terrorists Hate Us Friday!
Item: Upside-Down Pre-Lit Christmas TreeCatalogue: Hammacher Schlemmer
Price: $599.95
I was going to save this one for closer to Christmas and then I realized that to honor the spirit from wence it came, I should have put it up before Halloween. This comes from Hammacher Schlemmer, a catalogue rivaled only by the Sky Mall you get on planes for WtTHUF material. The ad copy writers start off smoothly enough: "Evoking a 12th century Central European tradition of hanging a tree from the ceiling at Christmas..." Oh, OK, I'll go for that. I like central Europe. And traditions. And I've got nothing against the 12th century. But then, waaaait for it..."it is inverted to ensure a smaller footprint for less-spacious areas, and allowing more room for the accumulation of presents underneath"! Bam! More presents baby! Welcome to Why the Terrorists Hate Us Friday!
posted by Brunch Bird at Friday, November 17, 2006
6 Comments:
Awesome. But I bet that angel is piiiiissed.
Good one. Yeah and the holiday music before Thanksgiving is seriously starting to drive me batty.
HA! Fantastic.
It looks like the most festive tornado you'll ever see. The weather outside is frightful, indeed.
I'm actually a little more confused by the chair. It's taking up valuable accumulation-of-presents space, and that cannot be tolerated.
Snickering at your comment honeykbee.
WiB- I think it's there to indicate perspective. Like, "A whole chair fits under here, just think of how many presents will!" Either that or your $599.95 gets you not only an upside down, pre-lit Christmas tree, but also a chair to take a load off while you contemplate what a Twinkie-for-brains you are for buying it.
Mmmmm, Twinkies.....
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