The Prairie Pooch Hole
Poocher Truly here says this gift is a good example why Christmas is evil. It brings out the worst in everyone! Don't believe those Miracle On 34th Street movies. We are all pawns in a scheme by Satan and merchandisers to subvert Communism and it's "One For All" concept.
Am I the only one who thinks Communism got a bum rap from Western intelligentsia?
Believe me, this world is in the end stages of a deadly end game that will only end when one of the two behind-the-scenes powers dies and the struggle ends.
Don't bark at me. Read the article. Then, growl at Christmas lovers wherever you find them!
At first glance, it looks like an actual product: A "USB Toaster" that plugs into a laptop to toast a single slice of bread. "Don't be tethered to the kitchen! Take your toast ... to go!" reads the ad copy on the slickly designed box, which sports images of a pop-up toaster and a busy-looking guy in a motel room biting into a piece of toast.
You can just imagine some poor sap struggling to look excited on Christmas morning after unwrapping the oddly useless gadget. Once he or she opens the box, however, an inside flap reveals the joke. "Gotcha!" it taunts. "There is no USB Toaster in this box. Even the concept of such a toaster is silly and unrealistic. In reality, you, the gift recipient, have been duped."
That's the punch line of the GotchaBox, a series of decoy gift boxes sold through the online store of The Onion, the satirical fake-news outfit. Other GotchaBoxes have featured such nonexistent products as a 28-piece "professional" whisk set and a build-your-own-umbrella kit.
Pranksters are encouraged to put their real gifts inside the gag boxes, then keep a straight face -- or better yet, ask sweetly, "How do you like it?" -- as the recipient squirms with discomfort.
The boxes are the brainchild of Arik Nordby, a graphic designer from Eden Prairie, Minnesota, who got the idea in 2004 after a birthday party for a friend's young son. The boy was visibly dismayed when a toy came wrapped in a box for a coffee pot.
See! The Christmas lover types revel in the sadness of children.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/16/gotcha.boxes.onion/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Don't bark at me. Read the article. Then, growl at Christmas lovers wherever you find them!
At first glance, it looks like an actual product: A "USB Toaster" that plugs into a laptop to toast a single slice of bread. "Don't be tethered to the kitchen! Take your toast ... to go!" reads the ad copy on the slickly designed box, which sports images of a pop-up toaster and a busy-looking guy in a motel room biting into a piece of toast.
You can just imagine some poor sap struggling to look excited on Christmas morning after unwrapping the oddly useless gadget. Once he or she opens the box, however, an inside flap reveals the joke. "Gotcha!" it taunts. "There is no USB Toaster in this box. Even the concept of such a toaster is silly and unrealistic. In reality, you, the gift recipient, have been duped."
That's the punch line of the GotchaBox, a series of decoy gift boxes sold through the online store of The Onion, the satirical fake-news outfit. Other GotchaBoxes have featured such nonexistent products as a 28-piece "professional" whisk set and a build-your-own-umbrella kit.
Pranksters are encouraged to put their real gifts inside the gag boxes, then keep a straight face -- or better yet, ask sweetly, "How do you like it?" -- as the recipient squirms with discomfort.
The boxes are the brainchild of Arik Nordby, a graphic designer from Eden Prairie, Minnesota, who got the idea in 2004 after a birthday party for a friend's young son. The boy was visibly dismayed when a toy came wrapped in a box for a coffee pot.
See! The Christmas lover types revel in the sadness of children.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/16/gotcha.boxes.onion/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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