more puzzling alcohol paraphernalia

[just john]

I remember as a kid, seeing Sears and Spencers catalogs with camouflaged
"bar" sets.

To a normal person, it would look like a clumsily-made globe or a fake
set of books or a badly-constructed dummy stereo, but you flip it open
and PRESTO! A place for a few bottles, a cocktail shaker, tongs ...

WHY?? Some sort of nostalgia for Prohibition? And who was it supposed
to fool?

Maybe I should adopt a new hobby: Taking opaque booze bottles and
turning them into precision tool kits. You think that's a velvet Cherry
Marnier bottle? Surprise! It holds everything you need to repair watches!

--
* Radio Free Entropy: http://just-john.com/cn/rfe.shtml

[Popess Pantiara Evokovitch, BAYBEE!]

Give ChrisLee one of those for his birthday and you'll be his new best
friend until he gets a better present next year!

[just john]

Popess Pantiara Evokovitch, BAYBEE! wrote:
> On Aug 17, 3:27 pm, just john <teuy13...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>> I remember as a kid, seeing Sears and Spencers catalogs with camouflaged
>> "bar" sets.
>>
>> To a normal person, it would look like a clumsily-made globe or a fake
>> set of books or a badly-constructed dummy stereo, but you flip it open
>> and PRESTO! A place for a few bottles, a cocktail shaker, tongs ...
>>
>> WHY?? Some sort of nostalgia for Prohibition? And who was it supposed
>> to fool?
>>
>> Maybe I should adopt a new hobby: Taking opaque booze bottles and
>> turning them into precision tool kits. You think that's a velvet Cherry
>> Marnier bottle? Surprise! It holds everything you need to repair watches!
>>

>

> Give ChrisLee one of those for his birthday and you'll be his new best
> friend until he gets a better present next year!

Thanks for the warning! (Crosses out "fake globe bar set" and writes
"fake dog turd.")

[Pisces]

On Aug 17, 3:27 pm, just john <teuy13...@sneakemail.com> wrote:

sweet! I need a new watch tool kit.

When will this be available?

Can you include a jewelers anvil for those picky bracelet pins?

[SusietheFloozie]

On Aug 17, 4:24 pm, just john <teuy13...@sneakemail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the warning!  (Crosses out "fake globe bar set" and writes
> "fake dog turd.")

The local non-porn novelties store, Eddie's trick Shop, features the
best fake dogdoo EVAR! Each loaf is individually extruded and formed,
and the recipe contains enough sawdust or whatever that the stuff
looks exactly like the scat of a dog who's fed a diet of shitty
kibble.

One of these is perfect for hiding a housekey under.

I was editing stuff for an artist friend and had to leave the key for
him to come by and get the stuff while I was out. Wayne Vansant is a
pretty straight-laced guy--he drew THE NAM for Marvel Comics and is a
militaria buff and a good churchgoing Southern Baptist boy--but he had
to share hotel rooms with me doing conventions all over the place, and
knew of, uh, my "ways."

Later he confessed to me that every time he came by and got the key,
he used a stick to turn the thing over.

WHAAA??? I had to laugh, but what did he think, that I'm out in my
front yard, laugjing evilly, squatting down and doing a tight swirly
poo* just for kicks?

*This visual pantomime is the essential element of the joke which
goes: "What am I?--TOM CARVEL taking a SHIT!!!"

[Richard Casady]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:27:10 -0700 (PDT), Pisces <kvan...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Have you seen the wrench you need to get the back off of a Rolex?
Bulkier and more expensive by far than everything else together that
you need to work on one. A one buck screwdriver. A one buck tweezer. A
six buck magnifier. A two hundred buck wrench and I think you need a
vise as well. Oh yes,you need a clean white cloth to work over so that
when you drop one of those tiny screws it won't be gone.

Casady