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I’m taking a page from Ransom’s blog and issuing a new photo challenge! Previous challenges called for you to send us pictures of your neighborhood’s “pants,” and local ill-advised business names. Both were big hits: our photo army is on the march.
Now the challenge expands to crazy thrift store finds. Get your camera, go to your local thrift store, and snap a picture of the craziest thing you find!
To get you started, here’s a real item from a Portland, Oregon Goodwill (found by blogger Mary Wheeler):
The details: send photos of your finds to flossypics (at) gmail (dot) com, and include any details you think might be important (especially your location) in the email. We’ll also send out an email with this info in it to everyone who’s already volunteered to be part of our photo army.
Results will be posted Monday, so you’ve only got a few days to find awesome stuff! Get thrifty, people!
I dont have any cool pictures (I drowned my camera on accident) but I absolutly want the Bar-noculars!
posted by Sara on 2-29-2008 at 9:54 am
When I was a kid I went to a college basketball game and the guy sitting next to me asked me to hold on to his binoculars while he was gone. When I tried to use them, they didn’t work because they were full of vodka!
posted by SgtPepp on 2-29-2008 at 10:54 am
I don’t drink alcohol (on a regular basis) but these bar-noculars are ingenious!
posted by CK on 2-29-2008 at 11:04 am
I had a pair of barnoculars in college but I still got kicked out of a football game for getting caught with a flask but they never realized I had booze in my binos.
posted by Phil on 2-29-2008 at 11:21 am
I’d like the Bar-noculars better if they had a flask on one side and a monocular on the other. I don’t drink enough to need a double flask, and I’d still like to be able to see events close-up.
posted by airship on 2-29-2008 at 12:05 pm
Well, airship, judging by these comments, the market is clearly there. I’d get the patent process rolling if I were you.
posted by kate on 2-29-2008 at 12:14 pm
My dad totally has those! I’m from Southern Ontario but I have this crazy uncle from Portland who likes to buy really bizarre gifts for Christmas (he once got a deck of cards with pictures of elderly, obese women for my grandfather…) and my dad is a big sports fan so he got the BARnoculars.
The box is hilarious too because instead of giving the magnification (like 8.5×21) it says 2×8.5 oz.
They work surprisingly well too…
posted by Kat on 3-1-2008 at 3:48 pm
Show us your junk?
Just so you know, you might be getting some rather NSFW photos by making such an open-ended request.
posted by SpaceMonkeyX on 3-2-2008 at 7:51 pm
I don’t have any pics of junk for you (yet), the Bar-noculars reminded me of something similar I heard about recently; the “Wine Rack” Bra. www.chipchick.com/2008/02/wine_rack_bra_hides_booze.html
posted by Dave on 3-3-2008 at 11:17 am