Ideal Christmas Gift
Here's a present that was given to Gareth:
It's a plastic chameleon that plugs into the USB port on the computer.
From time to time it rolls its eyes and from time to time it sticks its long red tongue out, as if catching a fly.
And - - ta-ra! - - that's it.
Of course, I loved it instantly, because I like chameleons anyway, andI love that strange rocking-backwards-and-forwards thing they do to pretend they're perched on a tree in a breeze, so they can't be spotted. This plastic one hasn't mastered that, though, sadly.
Yes, it's completely pointless and as such would have been a worthy inclusion in the much-missed Innovations Catalogue. (do look at the link, it's very entertaining).
You may remember that this little gem used to arrive periodically, unasked-for and unnanounced, inside a newspaper or magazine.
The newspaper would immediately be thrown aside, rejected for the thrills to be found within the magnificent Innovations Catalogue. Although you would have never had thought of wanting any of the items therein, once you saw it, you wanted everything. A new kind of self-cleaning shoe-rack! A battery-powered device that would tell you if it was raining outside - and all whilst you were still lying in bed! A device to stick in your plant-pot that turned red when your plant needed watering!
"Oh, that's a good idea!" you'd think, leafing through the catalogue. But when you'd done that, you'd somehow find you'd had your fill of Technology, like eating too much chocolate cake, so you never actually ordered anything. Which is why, presumably, it went bust.
And yet - - look here! Innovations on t'interclacker! Climbing Santas! Automatic TRV - 10 Robot Vacuum Cleaner "Can you imagine not having to do the vacuuming ever again? With the TRV-10 Science Fiction becomes fact - - " There's the Dreamate "for a trouble-free night's sleep every night" - - "every 5 seconds, tiny electrodes emit barely noticeable impulses" - -
Aaaah yes, this is what we want. Hurrah for the Innovations Catalogue, and bring back Tomorrow's World on telly, says I, whilst you're about it. If it says "you'll be amazed" - and it so often does - that's good enough for me.
It's a plastic chameleon that plugs into the USB port on the computer.From time to time it rolls its eyes and from time to time it sticks its long red tongue out, as if catching a fly.
And - - ta-ra! - - that's it.
Of course, I loved it instantly, because I like chameleons anyway, andI love that strange rocking-backwards-and-forwards thing they do to pretend they're perched on a tree in a breeze, so they can't be spotted. This plastic one hasn't mastered that, though, sadly.
Yes, it's completely pointless and as such would have been a worthy inclusion in the much-missed Innovations Catalogue. (do look at the link, it's very entertaining).
You may remember that this little gem used to arrive periodically, unasked-for and unnanounced, inside a newspaper or magazine.
The newspaper would immediately be thrown aside, rejected for the thrills to be found within the magnificent Innovations Catalogue. Although you would have never had thought of wanting any of the items therein, once you saw it, you wanted everything. A new kind of self-cleaning shoe-rack! A battery-powered device that would tell you if it was raining outside - and all whilst you were still lying in bed! A device to stick in your plant-pot that turned red when your plant needed watering!
"Oh, that's a good idea!" you'd think, leafing through the catalogue. But when you'd done that, you'd somehow find you'd had your fill of Technology, like eating too much chocolate cake, so you never actually ordered anything. Which is why, presumably, it went bust.
And yet - - look here! Innovations on t'interclacker! Climbing Santas! Automatic TRV - 10 Robot Vacuum Cleaner "Can you imagine not having to do the vacuuming ever again? With the TRV-10 Science Fiction becomes fact - - " There's the Dreamate "for a trouble-free night's sleep every night" - - "every 5 seconds, tiny electrodes emit barely noticeable impulses" - -
Aaaah yes, this is what we want. Hurrah for the Innovations Catalogue, and bring back Tomorrow's World on telly, says I, whilst you're about it. If it says "you'll be amazed" - and it so often does - that's good enough for me.
posted by Daphne at 1:58 pm
1 Comments:
I DID love that damn little catalogue and like you astutely said, I'd think I was going to buy this and that but by the time I got to the last page, I'd mostly lost interest and reality had set in - I didn't NEED any of it after all.
A bit like an Argos catalogue now !!
I once wrote and explained this common attitute to their otherwise excellent catalogue and suggested they should move the last page further back into the catalogue to stop it happening.
Oddly enough I never heard back from them. Then they went bust.
My conscience is clear.
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