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On Monday, we asked people to help us create a list of places mental_floss magazine is sold. You came through. We also said we’d give away t-shirts to a few lucky contributors.
• We picked a number at random (as you can see on the Post-it Note, #112). Our first winner is the person whose comment number matched. Congrats to Zack, who has seen the mag at Barnes & Noble in Shelby Township, MI.
• Our second winner would have been the person who picked our secret location (we chose The Regulator Bookshop on Ninth Street in Durham, NC). Unfortunately, nobody got this one.
• We also said we’d award a t-shirt for the most obscure location. I’m not seeing a ton of crazy places. So let’s keep the contest going. Tell us other places you can buy mental_floss, and you’ll have two more chances to win a free t-shirt:
1) We’ll pick another lucky number.
2) The most obscure place wins.
Unless there are any questions, let’s begin. (Leave your comments here, not under the original post.)
[And if you don't want to play our silly games but still want mental_floss merchandise, you can subscribe to the magazine or buy yourself some t-shirts.]
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I buy mine at Mayer’s Smoke Shop in Ithaca, NY. Well, that’s not entirely true… I have a subscription, but I have bought it there to stick in gift bags and whatnot.
posted by Megan on 10-24-2007 at 2:02 pm
Barnes and Noble, Middletown, Rhode Island
posted by Andrew on 10-24-2007 at 2:06 pm
Rich’s Cigar Shop on NW Flanders in Portland, Oregon.
posted by Jen on 10-24-2007 at 2:29 pm
Waldenbooks in Saint Louis Galleria, St. Louis, MO
(Although they don’t stock nearly enough. I have *got* to get a subscription.)
posted by Anita on 10-24-2007 at 2:47 pm
Earth Fare, Charleston, SOuth Carolina
posted by Eric on 10-24-2007 at 2:55 pm
Barnes and Noble in Medford, OR
posted by Pointy-Hatted Geek on 10-24-2007 at 3:18 pm
While I didn’t find one to buy there, I had my dad ship me one in Krakow, Poland this past summer and passed it around to all of my friend
posted by Lesley on 10-24-2007 at 3:44 pm
I saw copies for sale at the Golden Temple in Birmingham Alabama. It’s a vegan food and offbeat merchandise store and restaurant run by a local family of Sikhs. It’s a really cool store- and they serve a killer Golden Temple Stack (rice, black beans, guacomole and other goodies).
posted by Harold on 10-24-2007 at 3:56 pm
I’m telling you…. GUAM is obscure!!!
Guam is a US territory in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and is home to the most beautiful Islanders. I found a copy once at Barracks 20 mini-mart on the US Naval Base.
posted by Miss Nae on 10-24-2007 at 6:08 pm
Berryville in Mt. Shasta, Ca!! Berryville Being one of the health food stores in town, and “Berryville” being the second name of the town/city place that I live. They changed it in the 1800’s to get a Post Office. Too many Post Offices were in a “Strawberry Valley”, which would make it more confusing. After being Berryville for a nice amount of time. It then was changed to “Sisson”. Sisson being the name of this big shot that owned an inn that was really popular. Then in 1924 they changed it to Mt. Shasta. Considering that the town/city thing I live in is on a Mount, which name is Mt. Shasta, this one makes the most sense to me.
I don’t know if we have to say what shirt we want, but my chose would be “You’ve got male”
posted by Emily on 10-24-2007 at 7:00 pm
Um, my apartment in Kunming China isn’t obscure enough?? If it’s the fact that I’m not actually a bona fide seller of Mental Floss, well, um… I can start selling them to other people if you want me to. However, I didn’t think that was very legal; plus, people would have to pay for a very expensive plane ticket to get it, so I thought I would defray the cost of the magazine. (I’m really very nice that way.) See, I should win. :) I’m nice, AND I have Mental Floss.
posted by greenstrawberries on 10-24-2007 at 8:03 pm
I’m going to go out on a limb here, but you can buy them on ebay!
Item #220163756950
Its even the current issue and has a bid!
posted by Aimee on 10-24-2007 at 9:23 pm
I know for a fact that they sell that at the Adelaide Borders in Australia.
posted by Becca on 10-25-2007 at 5:30 am
Oops, Pluto shirt.
posted by Becca on 10-25-2007 at 5:34 am
Borders at Gulf Coast Town Center, Fort Myers, FL (but NOT at the Barnes & Noble at Coconut Point Mall in Estero, FL — I asked).
posted by Bonnie Gluhanich on 10-25-2007 at 6:07 am
Monkey Junction and Tight Squeeze aren’t doing it for ya, eh?
Oh, you said buy not find. oh well.
posted by Jenny on 10-25-2007 at 12:06 pm
Wild Oats in Indy. It’s the only place I can find Mental Floss on a regular basis, aside from my mailbox.
posted by Casey on 10-25-2007 at 12:26 pm
mental_floss is delivered right to my mailbox in Peculiar, Missouri.
posted by Brandy on 10-25-2007 at 1:04 pm
Cody’s Books in Berkeley
posted by Alicia on 10-25-2007 at 4:34 pm
The first place I bought it was at the Hungry Mind in St Paul, MN… it’s closed now, sadly enough. Another small store that was the victim of Borderization.
JOsh
posted by Josh on 10-26-2007 at 8:15 am
University Bookstore, University of Missouri–Columbia
posted by Andrew on 10-27-2007 at 2:32 pm
Um, oddly enough the Blockbuster video store up the street from me in Grand Rapids, Michigan sells it. It’s where I bought my first copy, and where I get it to this day.
posted by Beth on 10-28-2007 at 9:49 pm
Well I didn’t see it for sale but my cammander had an issue (the first I had ever read) on his desk in Jalalabad Afghanistan.
posted by John on 11-2-2007 at 10:14 am
Hastings Books, Music & Video
4601 National Road East
Richmond, Indiana 47374
765-939-9546
–and–
New Age People
1484 W. 86th Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46260
317-228-9411
posted by Kris on 11-5-2007 at 2:01 pm
hello,
i will like to purchase 100 t shirt from your store, let me know the total cost with shipping to nigeria by dhl or fedex, the payment will be paid by credit card,
thanks
michael.
posted by michael babatunde on 12-26-2007 at 7:28 am
i saw a copy at a retirement home i visited…
posted by keagan on 11-4-2008 at 6:24 am
My first Mental Floss was from Ramstein Air Base in Germany
posted by Brandy on 7-8-2009 at 9:59 pm