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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/16/09

    In reply to The Enhanced Human, SkyMall Style
    And with the exception of the two pairs of shoes none of them occupy the same equipment slot! You could wear a full set of this stuff! #skymall
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    Image of Benguin Benguin
    11/16/09

    In reply to The Enhanced Human, SkyMall Style
    SkyMall is my favorite thing about flying. I take the catalog every time I fly as a cheapo souvenir. The inventory is just so ridiculous. #skymall
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/15/09

    In reply to The Enhanced Human, SkyMall Style
    Hey that Head Spa massager is useful for any low budget sci-fi movie in need of some weird head-gear type prop:

    It's a futuristic brainwave analyzer.

    It's a futuristic remote control for unmanned drone or other unmanned military vehicle.

    It's a futuristic VR sex machine.

    It's a futuristic smartphone/wearable computer with a front projected HUD that only the wearer can see (especially useful on those tight effects budgets).

    The list goes on...
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    Edited by Jrsy Devil's Advocate® at 11/15/09 2:36 AM Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was starred Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was unstarred
    Image of PotteryBarnClearanceSale PotteryBarnClearanceSale
    11/15/09

    In reply to The Enhanced Human, SkyMall Style
    Poor SkyMall link at the bottom of my favorites list, the last of my links to be clicked on a really slow day at work. Still, it's there for me ... waiting. It never lets me down. #skymall
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/14/09

    In reply to The Enhanced Human, SkyMall Style
    I admit, I have been tempted by the shoes with springs in them. To put this in perspective, I also bought Heelys. As a 28 year old man. I feel like I should add "FML" or something but those were awesome shoes. #skymall
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    11/14/09

    @The Lab: They make heelies in adult sizes? I really wanted a pair when I had a broken ankle. #skymall
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    Image of dingus dingus
    11/14/09

    In reply to The Enhanced Human, SkyMall Style
    I'm kinda dissapointed the prosthetic asscheeks don't come in different sizes. I was hoping for something in a Sir Mix-a-lot. I suppose you could double up.
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    Edited by dingus at 11/14/09 11:07 PM dingus was starred dingus was unstarred
    Image of Bos'un's Mate Bos'un's Mate
    11/14/09


    @dingus: [increasebuttsize.com] #skymall
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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/18/08

    In reply to GPS Homing Device Remembers Where You Stashed All Those Dead Bodies
    I'd get 10 of them, and have them all point back to each other in some sort of relational pattern, and then spend the rest of my life traveling from one to the next.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/17/08

    In reply to The Best of the Worst of Skymall
    "The Best of the Worst of Skymall"


    That almost seems to imply that there is a Best of the Best of Skymall as well, which I find hard to believe...

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    Image of EdgesRazor EdgesRazor
    12/17/08

    In reply to The Best of the Worst of Skymall
    Hey, leave Skymall alone! If you know of another place I can get all of my Harry Potter wands, I'd love to hear it, smartguys.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    12/17/08

    @EdgesRazor: The Noble Collection?[www.noblecollection.com]
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    12/17/08

    In reply to The Best of the Worst of Skymall
    I recently bought 3 bags of crap on woot.com and got more useful stuff than this!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    12/17/08

    @admoseremic: I hate you. I missed out on those bags cuz of their damn server.
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    12/17/08

    @admoseremic: I have been wooting for years now, and still have yet to score a bog of crap. You bastard.
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    12/17/08

    @zenpoet: I blame Mojo:

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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    12/17/08

    @A/S/L-SteveDave loves this guy->★: Lol! The trick is the woot off checkers. Don't rely on woot's servers. This particular one I've linked to you will ensure you don't miss the crapage next time. It has BOC autobuy!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    12/17/08

    @admoseremic: I was using mywoot.net, and what killed me was Woot's servers. That, and since I was using IE and Firefox, IE was faster, but it didn't auto enter my Paypal code, so I got an order error after hitting the big yellow button, and that slowed me down enough to sell out before I bought. But I will try this for next weeks Woot!Off.
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    Image of korybing korybing
    12/17/08

    In reply to The Best of the Worst of Skymall
    Whatever man, I still totally want a slanket.
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    12/17/08

    @korybing: Try the Snuggie! [ca.eonline.com]
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/17/08

    @korybing: "I still totally want a slanket"


    @Cross-eyedCyclops: "Tila Tequila sells the skanklet on her site"


    You know I read kory's comment really fast and thought Skymall was hawking an anklet for skanks, to go with their tramp stamps or ass antlers if you prefer...

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    12/17/08

    @A/S/L-SteveDave loves this guy->★: The slanket is the snuggie with an even crappier name. I'd expect to see something like that in the J Peterman catalog, not Skymall...
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    12/17/08

    In reply to The Best of the Worst of Skymall
    Looking at the link, I think the Pet Observation Dome is fanfuggingtastic! I wish the neighbor with the little shaved-rat yippy dog would get one of these, so I could punch in the dome like a demo-speaker tweater at Bestbuy. Take that Yippy dog!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    12/17/08

    In reply to The Best of the Worst of Skymall
    If someone can seriously explain how a magnetic field can age a drink, I will concede my baffle-ment. I mean, how does it age 10 years in ten seconds, but to go 20 years, you need three minutes? Should it be 180 years by then? Does it work on cigars? And this is the best part:

    Guaranteed to work 24/7 for 100 years.
    So if in 90 years, it stops aging your wine, then you can return it? How do they know it only works for 100 years? Did they test it?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/17/08

    @A/S/L-SteveDave loves this guy->★:



    It's Magic

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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    12/17/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: No blink tag this time?
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/17/08

    @A/S/L-SteveDave loves this guy->★: "How do they know it only works for 100 years? Did they test it? "


    Considering it only took an hour to reach 100 years, testing wasn't much of a problem.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/17/08

    @A/S/L-SteveDave loves this guy->★: Wow, so magnets can give me better gas mileage and prematurely age my booze. I love science!
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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was starred Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/17/08

    @admoseremic: I'm sorry. You're absolutely right. The magical sense of wonderment that the late Doug Hennings bestowed upon his audience merits the [blink] tag all the time. It was foolish of me to omit it.



    For those of you not familiar with Doug Henning, he was a television magician in the late Seventies. I have fond memories of his appearance on The Muppet Show.


    Here is what the Wikipedia has to say about him:




    Shortly after college, Henning was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant.[1] The terms of the grant required Henning to study magic. He did so, travelling to view firsthand the talents of magic greats like Slydini and Dai Vernon.


    With the intention of returning magic to its "glory days", Henning worked to perfect his craft. Garnering financial support, he developed a live theatrical show: Spellbound, directed by Ivan Reitman, with music by Howard Shore and co-starring actress Jennifer Dale, a musical that combined an intense storyline and Henning's magic tricks. The show opened in Toronto and broke box office ticket records in that city. Henning reworked his show after catching the attention of New York producers, and took it to Broadway as The Magic Show, with songs composed by Stephen Schwartz. Debuting in 1974, the show ran for four and a half years earning Henning a Tony Award nomination.


    Following his Broadway success, Henning was approached by NBC to produce a television special. He spent the next eight months reworking his act for television. Debuting in December 1975, Doug Henning's World of Magic captured the attention of more than 50 million viewers. For the following seven years, Doug Henning continued his once-a-year broadcasts,[2] ultimately receiving seven Emmy nominations.


    Henning relocated to Los Angeles, California in 1976, and created his own production company. He would later create stage effects for music videos and concerts performed by musicians such as Earth, Wind and Fire and Michael Jackson.


    One of Henning's greatest strengths was presentation: His natural exuberance and his colorful costumes and props could make very old illusions seem new, and make simple tricks seem like miracles.


    His "Zig Zag" illusion is housed at the American Museum of Magic.


    Henning divorced Barbara De Angelis in 1981, and married Debby Douillard in Fairfield, Iowa in December of that year.[3] A talented artist herself, Douillard spent much of her married life accompanying her husband on tour, co-starring on stage, and helping to design sets and costumes.


    In 1983, Henning was the producer and star of a short-lived Broadway musical called Merlin, based on the character from Arthurian legend. Henning's role was spoofed in an Animaniacs sketch, "Sir Yaksalot".


    I was not aware of this, but Doug Henning graduated from McMaster University with a degree in psychology.


    I hope that this makes up for my earlier lack of the [blink] tag.


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    Image of closhedbb closhedbb
    12/17/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: If only the internets would have some kind of text you could set up so that way when you want people to go visit a site, you could make a short text that they can click on and it will take them there, instead of having to copy all the text into one long comment. They could call it a hyperlink, or something.


    *sigh* Maybe someday someone will come up with a way...

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/17/08

    @closhedbb: I'm well aware of the proper use and abuse of tags. But Admo wanted [blink]...


    I gave him [blink]

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    Image of Bruno Crosier Bruno Crosier
    12/17/08

    In reply to The Best of the Worst of Skymall
    "The Best Worst of SkyMall"?


    have giz officially banned the use of "and" in their titles? :S

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    12/17/08

    @Bruno Crosier: This is a perfectly cromulent headline.
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    Image of lankysob lankysob
    12/17/08

    @Bruno Crosier: Does "The Awesomely Shittiest of SkyMall" work better?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    12/17/08

    @lankysob: @timbrews: @getz76: Come one guys, let's cut him a little slack. He is a FaceBooker after all. "FaceBook: The Short Bus of the Gizmodo Commenters".
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/17/08

    In reply to The Best of the Worst of Skymall
    All of SkyMall is the worst of SkyMall.


    In fact, given a choice between SkyMall and SkyNet, I'll take SkyNet any day of the week and twice on Tuesdays.

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    Image of dingus dingus
    12/17/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: When every seat back pocket in every airplane contains a copy of a catalog with a two-page spread of replica Harry Potter paraphernalia, I'd say humanity has run its course.
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    Image of misterrios misterrios
    12/17/08

    @dingus: Why? Did they bring back the Harry Potter Vibrating Broom?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/17/08

    @misterrios: Hmmm. Vibrators for teenage boys....


    I'm Chris Hansen. Have a seat.

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