Thursday, November 10, 2005

As Seen On TV - Funny Items

Don't have time for the 8 minute workout?

How about the 6 second abs?

No time at all?

Just put on a pair of Absonic Pants and you'll be lean and mean in no time - no sweat required.

The Body Burner sounds like an idea gone wrong.

Funerals are expensive but do-it-yourself cremation kits just aren't right ;-)

As if the Salad Shooter wasn't powerful enough - now if you hurry you can get two Salad Blasters! for the price of one.

For those people who either don't own a spatula (sometimes called a "pancake turner") or haven't mastered the fine art of spatulism perhaps the Perfect Pancake pancake maker would be the perfect gift.

No more pancakes that are only cooked on one side.

I wish I could find links to a couple of other items, one a kitchen item and one an exercise device -

We had a hot dog cooker for awhile when I was a kid that was basically a plastic box with an electric circuit that was completed by attaching hot dogs across two prongs. The dogs cooked sort of like a fuse gets hot in a fuse box...it was a very weird device. One might ask - couldn't you cook a hot dog in a frying pan, or a pan of water (why the special cooker?). No one knew why.

The other thing I can't find is a more recent exercise tool. I thought it was called a Bow Flex but that's not it. It was a fiberglass strip - maybe three feet long or so and the people advertising it were of course very fit (apparently from holding the fiberglass strip in front of them and wiggling it up and down).

Wiggling a fiberglass rod in front of you looks cool on T.V. but I'm guessing in the privacy of your own home it gets old fast.

I liked the old Charles Atlas information you could get by sending in a dime in response to an ad in a comic book. Charles told you to get a broom (plain old kitchen broom) and try and hold it out in front of you as long as you could. At least you could use the broom for something else after you decided in about 45 seconds that holding a broom wasn't going to turn you from a 98 pound weakling into a muscleman.

Happy shopping.