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The Envelope Please
by Jason English - September 21, 2007 - 10:53 AM

I’m here to announce the winners of yesterday’s eBay scavenger hunt, “What Will You Find For A T-Shirt?”

First of all, give yourselves a round of applause. Great response, in quality and quantity. Picking winners was incredibly hard; I wish I could give you all free t-shirts and back issues. But that’s why I’m not allowed near the order fulfillment center.

hammer1.jpgThe first runner-up, and winner of the mental_floss back issue of her choice, is Heather. It may not look like much, but this M.C. Hammer snap bracelet takes me right back to a time when we wore snap bracelets and listened to “U Can’t Touch This” on repeat. Extra points were awarded for the seller description: “Hammer pants and attitude not included.”

And the winner is…

Beethoven.JPGJaneM and her Diamond Created from Lock of Beethoven’s Hair (Carbon). I’m not sure how this works, but I loved this paragraph: “Reznikoff holds the Guinness World Record for the largest and most valuable collection of celebrity hair. Reznikoff’s collection also includes such figures as Napoleon, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. In total, the collection is valued at over $5 million dollars.”

Stay tuned for a post on the most famous celebrity hair.

beethoven3.jpgTo the victors go the t-shirt and back issue. JaneM and Heather, I’ll be emailing you both to get your address and prize of choice. So take a look around our store. And just because you chose a Beethoven item doesn’t mean you have to choose our Beethoven shirt.

We’ll do this again soon.

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Comments (12)

  1. I think I want to have my own remains cremated and made into diamonds. There’s something very cool/creepy about that.

    posted by Rachel on 9-21-2007 at 11:19 am

  2. I agree, it is kind of a creepy thing…but think about it - you get your family to agree to have diamonds made out of their remains, and then your descendents can have make stuff with the diamonds and have it have reallllllllly deep meanings. Plus, think of all the great stuff you could say! “Grandma, she really was a diamond in the rough!” Oh man, just creeped myself out there.

    posted by Lindsay D on 9-21-2007 at 11:56 am

  3. Imagine a few generations down the line. One of my descendants, in a bind and out of cash, hawking my diamond to some shmuck at a pawnshop.
    I don’t even want to think about how little money I’d sell for.

    “This is a pretty nice diamond you’ve got here.”
    “You like? 50 bucks.”
    “Sold!”
    “By the way, it’s made out of my great-uncle.”

    posted by Vlachen on 9-21-2007 at 12:08 pm

  4. Holy crap… I still have my New Kids on the Block snap bracelet from 9?… I wore it out to a bar the other night and I thought it was going to be stolen. Wonder how much I could get for that…
    I think I’ll hang on to it, so my kids can hurt each other with it when they’re old enough. Cuz ya know, they’re so dangerous.

    posted by Molly on 9-21-2007 at 12:32 pm

  5. Worst case scenario on being made into a diamond: via Vlachen’s pawn shop scenario above, winding up cemented in some pimp’s front tooth.

    posted by EV on 9-21-2007 at 12:50 pm

  6. Oh man, that would be one sweet grill! What if, like in the future, we have people walking around with diamonds in their teeth, and they’re like “This one was Michael Jackson, and this one over here, well this one’s my favorite, this used to be Stephen Colbert.” I can see it now - celebrities’ families hard up on some cash… who can blame them?

    posted by Lindsay D on 9-21-2007 at 2:41 pm

  7. This is going to take grave robbery to a whole new level.

    posted by Vlachen on 9-21-2007 at 2:57 pm

  8. They can do it with decorative glass,too. I know someone who’s brother was made into art glass and is on display in their home. They can even do it with pets,too.

    posted by Melissa on 9-21-2007 at 3:01 pm

  9. I thought for sure since so many other blogs featured the Beethoven diamond, it was an automatic DQ.

    posted by Ryan on 9-21-2007 at 3:31 pm

  10. Better a diamond than a pencil.

    posted by AMR on 9-21-2007 at 5:25 pm

  11. Since you’re talking about cremation:

    I teased my mom by saying “I want to be cremated, mixed with clay and formed into little Buddha statues like Kurt Cobain was.” She calmly(sarcastically) informed me that we aren’t Buddhist.

    posted by Tdave on 9-22-2007 at 4:27 am

  12. The snap bracelet has grown up. I have seen them used by Sound Techs at concerts to wrap cable bundles.

    posted by Andrew Woodbridge on 9-22-2007 at 12:50 pm

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