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by Jason English - January 30, 2008 - 7:00 AM

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Who wouldn’t want a Graceland-themed pop-up book?

Even better, who wouldn’t want the chance to tell your friends you won a Graceland-themed pop-up book in a slightly ridiculous mental_floss contest? ($40.00 value.)

The good people at Quirk Books have kindly sent us a copy of Chuck Murphy’s Graceland: An Interactive Pop-Up Tour to give one lucky mental_floss reader. Here’s a summary:

graceland.jpgMore than 600,000 people visit Graceland every year, making it one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States. With Graceland: An Interactive Pop-Up Tour, you’ll go behind the velvet ropes for an all-access tour of the Elvis Presley Estate. Eight full-color pop-up spreads feature the mansion’s most memorable destinations:

• The Kitchen: Home of the famous peanut butter and banana sandwich.
• The TV Room: With three TVs running simultaneously, there’s never a dull moment.
• The Trophy Room: A monument to the King’s legacy.
• The Meditation Garden: Where Elvis and his family are buried.

Along the way, interactive pop-up features allow you to flip through Elvis’s record collection, browse the family photo album, open his refrigerator, and discover other hidden surprises. Graceland: An Interactive Pop-Up Tour is the perfect gift for Elvis fans of all ages!

Now to the all-important how-you-can-win part…

We’ve selected one (magical) story from our (vast) archives. Your job is to find it, needle-in-haystack style. Then leave a comment with the title and URL. I know it says links aren’t allowed, but I’ll let you in on a little secret: if you omit the ‘http://www’ part, your link should work just fine. (But if it doesn’t, the title will suffice.) You can guess up to five times, and those guesses can all be in the same comment.

I will start you with one hint: the magical post comes from a month that begins with ‘J.’

Happy hunting!

NEW HINT: The story is from 2007.

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Comments (23)

  1. [Sample Guess]

    Welcome to the Gun Show
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/3880

    posted by Jason on 1-29-2008 at 10:43 pm

  2. mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/date/2007/03/

    Recommendations: What they are really saying about you

    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7610

    You are getting pregnant, very pregnant

    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7587

    Tinkerbell they ain’t

    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7530

    Square America

    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9081

    College-era comics from Bill Watterson

    posted by Amy on 1-30-2008 at 6:43 am

  3. How To: Be A Ladies Man
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7107

    12 Pop Culture Cavemen
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7093

    posted by Kiki on 1-30-2008 at 7:24 am

  4. On pens
    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7397

    The Power of Lava
    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4051

    Friday Happy Hour: Amazing Pet Tricks
    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7042

    The King Arthur Tour
    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5864

    Thingamajig Thursday: the strigil
    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/2477

    posted by Jen on 1-30-2008 at 7:37 am

  5. 1. How to Find Four-Leaf Clovers
    (mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6569)

    2. Memphis Music Tour (mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6502)
    (*I know this is way too obvious to possibly be it…)

    3. Stuff About Stanley Kubrick
    (mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7083)

    4. Mmmmm … novelty food items
    (mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6799)

    5. How To: Get Stranded on A Desert Island (mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6747)

    posted by Jessica on 1-30-2008 at 7:41 am

  6. Gravity in Canada: Solved
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6719

    Let Them Look at Pictures of Cake
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6724

    The Sun Also Rises on a House Full of Cats
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6758

    The Priceless Potty, the Jiffy Boob Job and the Squid/Octopus Hybrid
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6752

    Predators and Pray?
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6762

    posted by suzanne on 1-30-2008 at 7:44 am

  7. Bye-bye Bergman, arrivederci Antonioni BLOG 7109

    Praise for the blind man who invented cruise control BLOG 6525

    Killer Home Decor BLOG 6333

    Hitler’s War on the Philadelphia Suburbs BLOG 11219

    The Yip Yips BLOG 6270

    posted by JAY on 1-30-2008 at 7:51 am

  8. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6590
    If Prokofiev wrote death metal

    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6562
    Real-World Knight Rider

    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6576
    IQ Tips : Do My Stuff

    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7060
    The LOLcat of Death

    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6573
    Phreatic explosions and lava bombs

    posted by Sarah on 1-30-2008 at 7:53 am

  9. Frankenfoods: Six Foods Prepared in the Lab

    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8385

    Confessions of a TV-Holic: 5 Cases of Unwanted Fame
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9271

    posted by Jack da Bomb on 1-30-2008 at 8:28 am

  10. Is Latin Dead?

    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/3844

    Artists think they’re so clever

    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/3862

    Bottled Toilet Water

    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/762

    Time Travel

    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/416

    It’s about time they made barcodes more interesting

    http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/410

    posted by Jake Le Master on 1-30-2008 at 9:05 am

  11. http://www.mentalfloss.com/trivia/facts/2007/06/11/who-was-that-masked-man/

    posted by Jason! on 1-30-2008 at 9:22 am

  12. Because Elvis loves you (and you’d like to prove it to the world) – http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/179

    Forbidden Friday: Envy – http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/727

    posted by Andrew on 1-30-2008 at 9:34 am

  13. 3 Magazine Mock-ups (we may or may not end up using!)

    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7128
    _________________________________________________
    Mr. Yuk

    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7081
    ___________________________________________

    Water hammer
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7056
    ________________________________________
    More meditations on: Pepto-Bismol

    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6594
    ___________________________________________

    Length Matters.
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6587

    posted by Amy on 1-30-2008 at 9:39 am

  14. Darn! Andrew probably has it, with his first link.

    posted by Anonymous on 1-30-2008 at 9:42 am

  15. Harry Potter Spoiler
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6776

    posted by elizabeth on 1-30-2008 at 11:22 am

  16. Who was that masked man?
    mentalfloss.com/trivia/facts/2007/06/11/who-was-that-masked-man/

    posted by ShayDubby on 1-30-2008 at 12:19 pm

  17. How did a chicken manage to stop a performance o the king of rock n’ roll?

    mentalfloss.com/trivia/facts/2004/06/16/how-did-a-chicken-manage-to-stop-a-performance-of-the-king-of-rock-n-roll/

    posted by ShayDubby on 1-30-2008 at 12:30 pm

  18. 1)Bye-bye Bergman, arrivederci Antonioni
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/date/2007/07/

    2)Behold the grandissimus!
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/date/2007/07/

    3)The LOLcat of Death
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/date/2007/07/

    4)A Job For Which I Think I’m Qualified: Naming Your Kids. Or At Least Your Pets.
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/date/2007/06/

    5)How To Be More Productive, Feel Calmer, And Learn To Paint Happy Little Trees
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6544

    I really really really need this!

    posted by Kelli K. on 1-30-2008 at 1:52 pm

  19. Photosynth Demo: The future of pictures
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6271

    Mr. Wizard
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6307

    posted by Linda on 1-30-2008 at 8:19 pm

  20. Phreatic explosions and lava bombs
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6573

    More of Memphis
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6516

    Discontinued Ben & Jerry’s Flavor or Band I Found On MySpace?
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6424

    Disgusting flavors we never got a chance to love
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6407

    Pizza and your face: is there a connection?
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6310

    posted by Nick on 1-30-2008 at 11:13 pm

  21. In the Can: 6 Canned Foods We’re Reluctant to Try
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7041

    posted by Liz on 1-31-2008 at 1:01 am

  22. Imaginary Geography
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6127

    Geoengineering: Playing God?
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/page/103/

    Airlines That Never Reached Their Cruising Altitude
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6355

    Mmmmm … novelty food items
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/page/91/

    The Disappearing Lake, Gecko Tape and the 5-Second Rule Debunked
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6538

    posted by Rageybug on 1-31-2008 at 1:24 pm

  23. Finally, a Robotic Beer Butler! mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6956

    Running Errands in Pseudo Springfield
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6876

    Really, Really Alternative Energy
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6869

    The First Time News Was Fit to Print
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6851

    How To: Get Rescued from a Desert Island
    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6855

    posted by somefatchick on 1-31-2008 at 10:31 pm

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